Largest in this registry
#8,333
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest car carrier
#154
of 464 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
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
- 9174490
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 431314000
- Call sign
- Flag state
- Japan
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Car carrier
In context
How Libra Leader 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 58,249 gross tons, Libra Leader is the 8,333rd 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 9.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 154th by tonnage — larger than 67% of that group. Their median tonnage is 49,792 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 68,871 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (132 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with 41 hulls on record.
Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which Libra Leader is the 201st 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 40 car carriers flying the Japan flag, of which 11 are larger by tonnage.
Libra Leader was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 83rd largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 740 vessels to Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with a median tonnage of 16,762 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 199.0 m overall, Libra Leader is 5.1 m longer than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9174490 this registry holds 56 other vessels, whose median build year is 1999 and which range from 1995 to 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Shin Kurushima Dockyard
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Where this page comes from
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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