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Largest in this registry
#644
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest oil tanker
#78
of 2,975 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 2 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
As part of Operation Southern Spear, the United States enacted a blockade on sanctioned oil tankers traveling in and out of Venezuela on 17 December 2025, after placing additional sanctions affecting oil trade with the country. A week before announcing the blockade, the US seized the oil tanker Skipper in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela on 10 December, and then focused its military efforts on intercepting and pursuing other tankers trading with Venezuela. On 7 January 2026, the United States boarded and seized the Russian oil tanker Marinera (formerly Bella 1) in the Atlantic near Iceland and the Panama-flagged M Sophia in the Caribbean Sea.
Skipper had been sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury in 2022 for alleged involvement in an oil trafficking shadow fleet of vessels involving the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah. Marinera and Sophia had also been sanctioned by the Treasury Department.
The Venezuelan government condemned the seizure of Skipper, describing it as an "act of international piracy". UN Security Council members urged restraint and some UN representatives condemned the naval blockade, and analysts said US actions tested maritime law.
Vessel particulars
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
Construction
Measurements
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 161,233 gross tons, Marinera is the 644th 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 27 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 78th by tonnage — larger than 97% 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.
Russia is the country of registry for 2,810 vessels in this directory, of which Marinera is the 1st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (830 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,293 GT. Browse every ship flagged Russia.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 188 oil tankers flying the Russia flag, of which none is larger than Marinera.
Marinera 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 7th 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 333.0 m overall, Marinera is 154.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record, with a beam of 60.0 m and a draft of 22.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9230880 this registry holds 63 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 2000 to 2003. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.
Its IMO number, 9230880, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 3×5 + 0×4 + 8×3 + 8×2 = 130 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among oil tankers
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Delta Glory | 2012 | 161,296 |
| Red Nova | 2013 | 161,296 |
| Oceanis | 2011 | 161,273 |
| Marinera (this ship) | 2002 | 161,233 |
| Desh Ujaala | 2004 | 161,202 |
| Desh Vaibhav | 2005 | 161,202 |
| Mediterranean Glory |
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.
Same yard, same years
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.
Hilwah
2002 · 164,292 GT · Saudi Arabia
Capricorn Star
2003 · 164,292 GT · Saudi Arabia
Genmar Victory
2001 · 163,761 GT · Bermuda
Marina
2003 · 160,930 GT · Zanzibar Islands
Overseas Ann
2001 · 157,883 GT · Russia
LNG Bayelsa
2003 · 114,354 GT · Bermuda
LNG Rivers
2002 · 114,354 GT · Bermuda

LNG Sokoto
2002 · 114,354 GT · Bermuda
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from 2025–2026 United States oil blockade of Venezuela on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy USCG, reused under Public domain.
| 2004 |
| 161,175 |