Ginga Kite

At 12,044 gross tons, Ginga Kite is the 33,383rd 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 2.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 604 chemical / products tankers held here, it ranks 174th by tonnage — larger than 69% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,979 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 25,682 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (80 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 35 hulls on record.

Singapore is the country of registry for 2,873 vessels in this directory, of which Ginga Kite is the 1,694th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,799 ships), and the median vessel measures 20,927 GT. Browse every ship flagged Singapore.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 24 chemical / products tankers flying the Singapore flag, of which 13 are larger by tonnage.

Ginga Kite was built in 2001, making it 25 years old. It is one of 1,268 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 14,062 GT; within it this ship is the 638th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 740 vessels to Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with a median tonnage of 16,762 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 147.0 m overall, Ginga Kite is 27.9 m longer than the 119.1 m median for chemical / products tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9228291 this registry holds 80 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.