Bow Explorer

At 29,627 gross tons, Bow Explorer is the 19,999th 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 4.9 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 11,306th by tonnage — larger than 77% 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.

Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Bow Explorer is the 439th 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 2,126 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Norway flag, of which 325 are larger by tonnage.

Bow Explorer was built in 2020, making it 6 years old. It is one of 984 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 32,720 GT; within it this ship is the 498th largest. Across the whole of the 2020s the registry holds 1,769 vessels, median 29,777 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 368 vessels to Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 40,437 GT, delivered between 1960 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 183.0 m overall, Bow Explorer is 68.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record and a draft of 9.8 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9828211 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.