Diamond Highway

At 60,175 gross tons, Diamond Highway is the 8,004th 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 98th by tonnage — larger than 79% 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.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Diamond Highway is the 1,103rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 132 car carriers flying the Panama flag, of which 18 are larger by tonnage.

Diamond Highway was built in 2004, making it 22 years old. It is one of 1,485 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 17,188 GT; within it this ship is the 197th 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 170 vessels to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works, with a median tonnage of 52,863 GT, delivered between 1954 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 200.0 m overall, Diamond Highway is 6.1 m longer than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record, with a beam of 32.3 m and a draft of 9.7 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9293636 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.