Houston

At 91,407 gross tons, Houston is the 4,441st 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 15 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 464th by tonnage — larger than 93% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Marshall Islands is the country of registry for 3,838 vessels in this directory, of which Houston is the 411th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,407 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,987 GT. Browse every ship flagged Marshall Islands.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 680 bulk carriers flying the Marshall Islands flag, of which 47 are larger by tonnage.

Houston was built in 2009, making it 17 years old. It is one of 2,834 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,673 GT; within it this ship is the 185th 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 186 vessels to Jiangnan Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 36,438 GT, delivered between 1973 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 292.0 m overall, Houston is 102.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9539602 this registry holds 66 other vessels, whose median build year is 2012. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.