Katsuragisan

At 160,292 gross tons, Katsuragisan is the 770th 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 27 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 116th by tonnage — larger than 96% of that group. Their median tonnage is 22,184 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 149,274 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (301 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 190 hulls on record.

Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which Katsuragisan is the 13th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,534 ships), and the median vessel measures 764 GT. Browse every ship flagged Japan.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 156 oil tankers flying the Japan flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.

Katsuragisan was built in 2005, making it 21 years old. It is one of 1,690 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,046 GT; within it this ship is the 15th 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 99 vessels to Sakaide Works, with a median tonnage of 68,654 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2018. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 333.0 m overall, Katsuragisan is 154.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9294240 this registry holds 84 other vessels, whose median build year is 2005 and which range from 2003 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.