Hoegh Kobe

At 59,705 gross tons, Hoegh Kobe is the 8,084th 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 10.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 106th by tonnage — larger than 77% 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.

Singapore is the country of registry for 2,873 vessels in this directory, of which Hoegh Kobe is the 452nd 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 23 car carriers flying the Singapore flag, of which 7 are larger by tonnage.

Hoegh Kobe was built in 2006, making it 20 years old. It is one of 2,118 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,539 GT; within it this ship is the 252nd 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 1,090 vessels to Hanwha Ocean, with a median tonnage of 84,214 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 179.9 m overall, Hoegh Kobe is 14.0 m shorter than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record, with a beam of 32.2 m and a draft of 9.6 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9330616 this registry holds 75 other vessels. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.