Grande Detroit

At 38,680 gross tons, Grande Detroit is the 14,511th 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 6.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 314th by tonnage — larger than 32% of that group. Their median tonnage is 49,792 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 68,871 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (132 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with 41 hulls on record.

Italy is the country of registry for 918 vessels in this directory, of which Grande Detroit is the 152nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (488 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,975 GT. Browse every ship flagged Italy.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 16 car carriers flying the Italy flag, of which 6 are larger by tonnage.

Grande Detroit was built in 2005, making it 21 years old. It is one of 1,690 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,046 GT; within it this ship is the 443rd 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 144 vessels to Uljanik, with a median tonnage of 25,600 GT, delivered between 1952 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 176.0 m overall, Grande Detroit is 17.9 m shorter than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9293272 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 2005 and which range from 2003 to 2012. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.