Gaz Unity

At 48,422 gross tons, Gaz Unity is the 10,198th 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 578 lpg carriers held here, it ranks 7th by tonnage — larger than 99% 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.

Comoros is the country of registry for 506 vessels in this directory, of which Gaz Unity is the 63rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (295 ships), and the median vessel measures 8,205 GT. Browse every ship flagged Comoros.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 6 lpg carriers flying the Comoros flag, of which none is larger than Gaz Unity.

Gaz Unity was built in 1982, making it 44 years old. It is one of 1,706 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,592 GT; within it this ship is the 45th 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.

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 228.0 m overall, Gaz Unity is 128.8 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 8001763 this registry holds 65 other vessels. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.