FPSO Layang

At 42,575 gross tons, FPSO Layang is the 12,513th 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 7.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 222nd by tonnage — larger than 90% of that group. Their median tonnage is 8,256 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 42,340 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (219 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 175 hulls on record.

Malaysia is the country of registry for 706 vessels in this directory, of which FPSO Layang is the 70th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (400 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,708 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malaysia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 14 tankers flying the Malaysia flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.

FPSO Layang was built in 1981, making it 45 years old. It is one of 1,653 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,186 GT; within it this ship is the 75th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 243.0 m overall, FPSO Layang is 104.0 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8000616 this registry holds 58 other vessels, whose median build year is 1981 and which range from 1979 to 1983. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1981.

Its IMO number, 8000616, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 = 76 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.