Largest in this registry
#44,789
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest tug
#19
of 1,263 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#5
of 36 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
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
- 9354296
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 367706000
- Call sign
- WDD6146
- Flag state
- United States
- Port of registry
- Galliano
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Tug
In context
How Max Chouest 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 4,918 gross tons, Max Chouest is the 44,789th 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 1.2 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,471 tugs held here, it ranks 19th by tonnage — larger than 98% of that group. Their median tonnage is 393 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 1,733 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (239 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Damen Shipyards Gorinchem, with 62 hulls on record.
United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which Max Chouest is the 419th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (977 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,706 GT. Browse every ship flagged United States.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 239 tugs flying the United States flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.
Max Chouest was built in 2007, making it 19 years old. It is one of 2,469 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,473 GT; within it this ship is the 1,476th 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 95 vessels to North American Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 2,912 GT, delivered between 1978 and 2018. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 76.0 m overall, Max Chouest is 43.7 m longer than the 32.3 m median for tugs on record, with a beam of 20.1 m and a draft of 7.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9354296 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at North American Shipbuilding
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.
Same fleet
Other ships operated by Edison Chouest Offshore
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.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
