Desert Orchid

At 17,232 gross tons, Desert Orchid is the 28,706th 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 2.9 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 16,064th by tonnage — larger than 68% 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.

Singapore is the country of registry for 2,873 vessels in this directory, of which Desert Orchid is the 1,530th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,799 ships), and the median vessel measures 20,927 GT. Browse every ship flagged Singapore.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,799 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Singapore flag, of which 934 are larger by tonnage.

Desert Orchid was built in 2018, making it 8 years old. It is one of 1,246 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 18,960 GT; within it this ship is the 614th 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.

At 160.0 m overall, Desert Orchid is 45.0 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 9798167 this registry holds 47 other vessels, whose median build year is 2017 and which range from 2015 to 2019. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2018.