Desh Shakti

At 84,261 gross tons, Desh Shakti is the 5,259th 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 14 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 404th by tonnage — larger than 86% of that group. Their median tonnage is 22,184 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 149,274 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (301 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 190 hulls on record.

India is the country of registry for 968 vessels in this directory, of which Desh Shakti is the 14th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (514 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,306 GT. Browse every ship flagged India.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 59 oil tankers flying the India flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.

Desh Shakti was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 97th 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 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 274.0 m overall, Desh Shakti is 95.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9263734 this registry holds 58 other vessels, whose median build year is 2003 and which range from 2001 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.