Asian Express

At 17,073 gross tons, Asian Express is the 28,873rd largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 2.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 16,174th by tonnage — larger than 67% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Asian Express is the 3,547th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2,739 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Liberia flag, of which 2,107 are larger by tonnage.

Asian Express was built in 1976, making it 50 years old. It is one of 1,812 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,484 GT; within it this ship is the 361st largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 179.0 m overall, Asian Express is 64.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7514608 this registry holds 44 other vessels, whose median build year is 1976 and which range from 1974 to 1980. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1976.