Christophe de Margerie

At 128,806 gross tons, Christophe de Margerie is the 2,045th 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 21 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 47th by tonnage — larger than 98% of that group. Their median tonnage is 8,256 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 42,340 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (219 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 175 hulls on record.

Cyprus is the country of registry for 1,418 vessels in this directory, of which Christophe de Margerie is the 8th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (915 ships), and the median vessel measures 15,666 GT. Browse every ship flagged Cyprus.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 21 tankers flying the Cyprus flag, of which none is larger than Christophe de Margerie.

Christophe de Margerie was built in 2016, making it 10 years old. It is one of 1,628 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 26,388 GT; within it this ship is the 88th 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 1,090 vessels to Hanwha Ocean, with a median tonnage of 84,214 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 299.0 m overall, Christophe de Margerie is 160.0 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record, with a beam of 50.0 m and a draft of 13.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9737187 this registry holds 62 other vessels, whose median build year is 2016 and which range from 2014 to 2018. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2016.

Its IMO number, 9737187, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 3×5 + 7×4 + 1×3 + 8×2 = 167 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.