LNG Sokoto

At 114,354 gross tons, LNG Sokoto is the 2,396th 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 19 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 270 lng carriers held here, it ranks 61st by tonnage — larger than 76% 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.

Bermuda is the country of registry for 177 vessels in this directory, of which LNG Sokoto is the 26th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (80 ships), and the median vessel measures 77,277 GT. Browse every ship flagged Bermuda.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 30 lng carriers flying the Bermuda flag, of which 9 are larger by tonnage.

LNG Sokoto 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 40th 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 1,092 vessels to HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 65,131 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 288.0 m overall, LNG Sokoto 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 9216303 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 1999 to 2002. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.

Its IMO number, 9216303, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 1×5 + 6×4 + 3×3 + 0×2 = 113 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.