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Largest in this registry
#5,806
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest lng carrier
#217
of 250 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
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No operator attributed to this ship
Vessel particulars
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Identification
Construction
In context
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 80,328 gross tons, Larbi Ben M'Hidi is the 5,806th 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 13 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 270 lng carriers held here, it ranks 217th by tonnage — larger than 13% 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.
Algeria is the country of registry for 72 vessels in this directory, of which Larbi Ben M'Hidi is the 5th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (42 ships), and the median vessel measures 7,050 GT. Browse every ship flagged Algeria.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 5 lng carriers flying the Algeria flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.
Larbi Ben M'Hidi was built in 1977, making it 49 years old. It is one of 1,791 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,622 GT; within it this ship is the 32nd largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 5 vessels to Constructions industrielles de la Méditerranée, with a median tonnage of 35,143 GT, delivered between 1949 and 1982. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 281.0 m overall, Larbi Ben M'Hidi is 7.0 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 7400663 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Record
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
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Measurements
Its IMO number, 7400663, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 4×6 + 0×5 + 0×4 + 6×3 + 6×2 = 103 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among lng carriers
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Mostefa Ben Boulaid | 1976 | 81,337 |
| Bachir Chihani | 1979 | 80,654 |
| Tenaga Lima | 1981 | 80,510 |
| Larbi Ben M'Hidi (this ship) | 1977 | 80,328 |
| Chill | 1974 | 71,804 |
| GDF Suez Global Energy | 2004 | 48,923 |
| Lerici | 1998 | 46,555 |