Laval

At 154,369 gross tons, Laval is the 1,205th 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 26 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 257th by tonnage — larger than 91% 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.

Tanzania is the country of registry for 337 vessels in this directory, of which Laval is the 4th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (209 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,457 GT. Browse every ship flagged Tanzania.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 27 oil tankers flying the Tanzania flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.

Laval was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 34th 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 240 vessels to IHI Marine United, with a median tonnage of 52,902 GT, delivered between 1963 and 2013. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 333.0 m overall, Laval 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 9246279 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 2000 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.