Giant Step

At 98,587 gross tons, Giant Step is the 3,386th 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 16 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 1st by tonnage — larger than 100% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Giant Step is the 484th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 565 general cargos flying the Panama flag, of which none is larger than Giant Step.

Giant Step was built in 1985, making it 41 years old. It is one of 1,312 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,782 GT; within it this ship is the 10th 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 53 vessels to Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 31,820 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2017. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 300.0 m overall, Giant Step is 199.0 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record, with a beam of 50.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8309282 this registry holds 62 other vessels. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.