Horta Barbosa

At 63,403 gross tons, Horta Barbosa is the 7,309th 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 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 146th by tonnage — larger than 94% of that group. Their median tonnage is 8,256 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 42,340 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (219 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 175 hulls on record.

Brazil is the country of registry for 445 vessels in this directory, of which Horta Barbosa is the 21st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (296 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,519 GT. Browse every ship flagged Brazil.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 5 tankers flying the Brazil flag, of which none is larger than Horta Barbosa.

Horta Barbosa was built in 1969, making it 57 years old. It is one of 814 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 992 GT; within it this ship is the 13th largest. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 190 vessels to Odense Steel Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 52,186 GT, delivered between 1924 and 2012. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 271.7 m overall, Horta Barbosa is 132.7 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record, with a beam of 42.1 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7001261 this registry holds 58 other vessels, whose median build year is 1969. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.