Busan Trader

At 27,051 gross tons, Busan Trader is the 21,677th 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 4.5 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 12,195th by tonnage — larger than 75% 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.

Malta is the country of registry for 2,640 vessels in this directory, of which Busan Trader is the 1,071st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,614 ships), and the median vessel measures 23,204 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malta.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,614 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Malta flag, of which 658 are larger by tonnage.

Busan Trader was built in 2009, making it 17 years old. It is one of 2,834 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,673 GT; within it this ship is the 998th 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.

At 210.0 m overall, Busan Trader is 95.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record and a draft of 11.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9419668 this registry holds 74 other vessels, whose median build year is 2009 and which range from 2006 to 2013. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2009.