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LNG carrier

Kappagas

IMO 9215141MMSI 304050982Call sign V2IA5Antigua and BarbudaBuilt 2001

Operated by Sloman Neptun Schiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft

Photo: AlfvanBeem · CC0 · file

Largest in this registry

#43,635

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest lng carrier

#241

of 250 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Largest in its fleet

of 9 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.

Identification

IMO number: 9215141
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI: 304050982
Call sign: V2IA5
Flag state: Antigua and Barbuda

In context

How Kappagas compares

Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

At 5,278 gross tons, Kappagas is the 43,635th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 270 lng carriers held here, it ranks 241st by tonnage — larger than 4% 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.

Antigua and Barbuda is the country of registry for 734 vessels in this directory, of which Kappagas is the 404th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (372 ships), and the median vessel measures 6,351 GT. Browse every ship flagged Antigua and Barbuda.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 6 lng carriers flying the Antigua and Barbuda flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.

Kappagas was built in 2001, making it 25 years old. It is one of 1,268 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 14,062 GT; within it this ship is the 734th 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 3 vessels to Giurgiu shipyard, with a median tonnage of 5,278 GT, delivered between 2001 and 2010. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 108.0 m overall, Kappagas is 180.0 m shorter than the 288.0 m median for lng carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9215141 this registry holds 58 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 1999 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2001.

Its IMO number, 9215141, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 1×5 + 5×4 + 1×3 + 4×2 = 111 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.