China Steel Innovator

At 106,368 gross tons, China Steel Innovator is the 3,028th 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 18 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 1,667th by tonnage — larger than 97% 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.

Taiwan is the country of registry for 294 vessels in this directory, of which China Steel Innovator is the 10th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (132 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,330 GT. Browse every ship flagged Taiwan.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 132 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Taiwan flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.

China Steel Innovator was built in 2012, making it 14 years old. It is one of 2,747 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 160th 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 77 vessels to Universal Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 101,933 GT, delivered between 2003 and 2014. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 299.7 m overall, China Steel Innovator is 184.7 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9479230 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.