Lacon

At 48,036 gross tons, Lacon is the 10,280th 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 8.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 1,156th by tonnage — larger than 82% 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.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Lacon is the 1,407th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 669 bulk carriers flying the Liberia flag, of which 170 are larger by tonnage.

Lacon was built in 2006, making it 20 years old. It is one of 2,118 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,539 GT; within it this ship is the 316th 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 337 vessels to Imabari Shipbuilding Marugame Headquarters, with a median tonnage of 39,738 GT, delivered between 1977 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 229.0 m overall, Lacon is 39.0 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 9277565 this registry holds 70 other vessels, whose median build year is 2003. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.