At 68,060 gross tons, Hoegh Trader is the 6,715th 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 11 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 55th by tonnage — larger than 88% 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.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Hoegh Trader is the 133rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 20 car carriers flying the Norway flag, of which 8 are larger by tonnage.
Hoegh Trader was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 72nd largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 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 228.8 m overall, Hoegh Trader is 34.8 m longer than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record, with a beam of 32.3 m and a draft of 10.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9171280 this registry holds 56 other vessels, whose median build year is 1999 and which range from 1997 to 2002. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.
Its IMO number, 9171280, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 7×5 + 1×4 + 2×3 + 8×2 = 130 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
