Castor Leader

At 70,048 gross tons, Castor Leader is the 6,601st 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 12 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 40th by tonnage — larger than 92% 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.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Castor Leader is the 958th 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 132 car carriers flying the Panama flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.

Castor Leader was built in 2015, making it 11 years old. It is one of 1,804 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,303 GT; within it this ship is the 270th 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 570 vessels to Imabari Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 23,261 GT, delivered between 1966 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 199.0 m overall, Castor Leader is 5.1 m longer than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record, with a beam of 32.3 m and a draft of 10.6 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9713894 this registry holds 63 other vessels. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.