Echo Star

At 44,652 gross tons, Echo Star is the 11,063rd 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 7.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 578 lpg carriers held here, it ranks 61st by tonnage — larger than 89% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,901 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 44,690 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (100 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 40 hulls on record.

Belize is the country of registry for 586 vessels in this directory, of which Echo Star is the 4th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (345 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,936 GT. Browse every ship flagged Belize.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2 lpg carriers flying the Belize flag, of which none is larger than Echo Star.

Echo Star was built in 1997, making it 29 years old. It is one of 1,319 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,388 GT; within it this ship is the 142nd largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 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 230.0 m overall, Echo Star is 130.8 m longer than the 99.2 m median for lpg carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9134294 this registry holds 60 other vessels. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.