IMO 9872949

At 116,542 gross tons, IMO 9872949 is the 2,307th 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 19 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 270 lng carriers held here, it ranks 53rd by tonnage — larger than 79% of that group. Their median tonnage is 105,826 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 128,416 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Marshall Islands (37 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Samsung Heavy Industries, with 39 hulls on record.

IMO 9872949 was built in 2021, making it 5 years old. It is one of 251 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 15,776 GT; within it this ship is the 20th largest. Across the whole of the 2020s the registry holds 1,769 vessels, median 29,777 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 1,092 vessels to HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 65,131 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 299.1 m overall, IMO 9872949 is 11.1 m longer than the 288.0 m median for lng carriers on record and a draft of 12.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9872949 this registry holds 31 other vessels, whose median build year is 2019 and which range from 1970 to 2021. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2021.

Its IMO number, 9872949, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 8×6 + 7×5 + 2×4 + 9×3 + 4×2 = 189 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.