LNG Mars

At 136,710 gross tons, LNG Mars is the 1,831st 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 23 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 270 lng carriers held here, it ranks 21st by tonnage — larger than 92% 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.

Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which LNG Mars is the 51st 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 18 lng carriers flying the Japan flag, of which none is larger than LNG Mars.

LNG Mars was built in 2016, making it 10 years old. It is one of 1,628 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 26,388 GT; within it this ship is the 81st largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 288.0 m overall, LNG Mars is within a metre of the 288.0 m median length for lng carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9645748 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 2013 and which range from 2011 to 2017. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2016.

Its IMO number, 9645748, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 168 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.