Medea

At 50,681 gross tons, Medea is the 9,841st 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 8.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 230th by tonnage — larger than 51% 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.

Singapore is the country of registry for 2,873 vessels in this directory, of which Medea is the 551st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,799 ships), and the median vessel measures 20,927 GT. Browse every ship flagged Singapore.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 23 car carriers flying the Singapore flag, of which 13 are larger by tonnage.

Medea was built in 1982, making it 44 years old. It is one of 1,706 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,592 GT; within it this ship is the 39th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 87 vessels to Kockums, with a median tonnage of 33,652 GT, delivered between 1894 and 1987. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 198.0 m overall, Medea is 4.1 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 8016550 this registry holds 70 other vessels, whose median build year is 1981 and which range from 1980 to 1985. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.