At 8,930 gross tons, Furenas is the 37,531st 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 1.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 1,092nd by tonnage — larger than 52% 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.
Faroe Islands is the country of registry for 116 vessels in this directory, of which Furenas is the 12th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (71 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,028 GT. Browse every ship flagged Faroe Islands.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 4 tankers flying the Faroe Islands flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.
Furenas was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 627th 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 71 vessels to Vard Tulcea, with a median tonnage of 4,678 GT, delivered between 1985 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 136.7 m overall, Furenas is 2.3 m shorter than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record, with a beam of 21.8 m and a draft of 8.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9153214 this registry holds 59 other vessels, whose median build year is 1998 and which range from 1993 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.
Its IMO number, 9153214, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 5×5 + 3×4 + 2×3 + 1×2 = 114 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
