Gato

At 48,508 gross tons, Gato is the 10,181st 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 8.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,408th by tonnage — larger than 62% of that group. Their median tonnage is 33,698 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 140,096 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Liberia (498 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with 348 hulls on record.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Gato is the 1,395th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 498 container ships flying the Liberia flag, of which 216 are larger by tonnage.

Gato was built in 1992, making it 34 years old. It is one of 1,130 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,228 GT; within it this ship is the 129th 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 40 vessels to IHI Corporation, with a median tonnage of 40,390 GT, delivered between 1960 and 2012. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 266.0 m overall, Gato is 44.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 12.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8915689 this registry holds 68 other vessels, whose median build year is 1990. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.