Largest in this registry
#4,553
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest lng carrier
#200
of 250 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 8 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
- IMO number
- 9236432
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 257716000
- Call sign
- ECER
- Flag state
- Norway
- Port of registry
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
- Name recorded in
- nb
Construction
In context
How «Bilbao Knutsen» compares
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 90,835 gross tons, «Bilbao Knutsen» is the 4,553rd 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 15 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 270 lng carriers held here, it ranks 200th by tonnage — larger than 19% of that group. Their median tonnage is 105,826 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 128,416 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Marshall Islands (37 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Samsung Heavy Industries, with 39 hulls on record.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which «Bilbao Knutsen» is the 66th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 7 lng carriers flying the Norway flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.
«Bilbao Knutsen» was built in 2004, making it 22 years old. It is one of 1,485 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 17,188 GT; within it this ship is the 68th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 35 vessels to La Naval (Sestao), with a median tonnage of 28,338 GT, delivered between 1965 and 2018. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 284.4 m overall, «Bilbao Knutsen» is 3.6 m shorter than the 288.0 m median for lng carriers on record and a draft of 12.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9236432 this registry holds 80 other vessels. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Record
Notable events
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
- 2006ship launching
- 2006ship commissioning
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at La Naval (Sestao)
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Same fleet
Other ships operated by Knutsen O.A.S. Shipping AS
Provenance
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
