Mete Star

At 2,406 gross tons, Mete Star is the 55,542nd 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 2.5 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 3,328th by tonnage — larger than 40% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.

Sierra Leone is the country of registry for 531 vessels in this directory, of which Mete Star is the 305th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (251 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,987 GT. Browse every ship flagged Sierra Leone.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 131 general cargos flying the Sierra Leone flag, of which 58 are larger by tonnage.

Mete Star was built in 1967, making it 59 years old. It is one of 496 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 757 GT; within it this ship is the 65th largest. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 196 vessels to Krasnoye Sormovo Factory No. 112, with a median tonnage of 4,681 GT, delivered between 1956 and 2022. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 114.0 m overall, Mete Star is 13.0 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8866357 this registry holds 54 other vessels. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.