Car Star

At 43,790 gross tons, Car Star is the 11,720th 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 7.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 284th by tonnage — larger than 39% of that group. Their median tonnage is 49,792 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 68,871 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (132 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with 41 hulls on record.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Car Star is the 1,594th 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 29 car carriers flying the Liberia flag, of which 15 are larger by tonnage.

Car Star was built in 1993, making it 33 years old. It is one of 1,073 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,586 GT; within it this ship is the 140th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 740 vessels to Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with a median tonnage of 16,762 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 195.0 m overall, Car Star is 1.1 m longer than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9051820 this registry holds 33 other vessels, whose median build year is 1994 and which range from 1992 to 1997. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1993.

Its IMO number, 9051820, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 5×5 + 1×4 + 8×3 + 2×2 = 120 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.