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Largest in this registry
#2,077
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest lng carrier
#28
of 250 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
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No operator attributed to this ship
Vessel particulars
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
Construction
In context
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 127,088 gross tons, Bishu Maru is the 2,077th 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 21 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 270 lng carriers held here, it ranks 28th by tonnage — larger than 89% 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.
Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Bishu Maru is the 320th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 21 lng carriers flying the Panama flag, of which none is larger than Bishu Maru.
Bishu Maru was built in 2017, making it 9 years old. It is one of 1,468 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 26,213 GT; within it this ship is the 109th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 99 vessels to Sakaide Works, with a median tonnage of 68,654 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2018. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 293.0 m overall, Bishu Maru is 5.0 m longer than the 288.0 m median for lng carriers on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9691137 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 2014 and which range from 2013 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
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.
Provenance
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.
Measurements
Its IMO number, 9691137, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 6×6 + 9×5 + 1×4 + 1×3 + 3×2 = 157 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among lng carriers
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Al Rekayyat | 2009 | 136,168 |
| Alexey Kosygin | 2025 | 127,555 |
| LNG Fukurokuju | 2016 | 127,242 |
| Bishu Maru (this ship) | 2017 | 127,088 |
| Pacific Arcadia | 2014 | 123,005 |
| Grand Aniva | 2008 | 122,239 |
| Arctic Princess | 2006 | 121,597 |