Largest in this registry
#7,692
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest car carrier
#77
of 464 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#19
of 56 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
- IMO number
- 9477921
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- Call sign
- 7KEO
- Flag state
- Japan
- Port of registry
- Panama City
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Car carrier
In context
How Demeter Leader compares
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 61,804 gross tons, Demeter Leader is the 7,692nd 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 10 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 77th by tonnage — larger than 84% 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.
Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which Demeter Leader is the 176th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,534 ships), and the median vessel measures 764 GT. Browse every ship flagged Japan.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 40 car carriers flying the Japan flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.
Demeter Leader 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 337th 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.
The registry attributes 337 vessels to Imabari Shipbuilding Marugame Headquarters, with a median tonnage of 39,738 GT, delivered between 1977 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 199.9 m overall, Demeter Leader is 6.0 m longer than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record, with a beam of 32.3 m and a draft of 10.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9477921 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Imabari Shipbuilding Marugame Headquarters
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Same fleet
Other ships operated by Wilhelmsen Ship Management Sdn. Bhd.
Provenance
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
