Largest in this registry
#28,394
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#15,911
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#18
of 52 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
- 9379349
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- Call sign
- TCQX8
- Flag state
- Turkey
- Port of registry
- İzmir
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Unclassified
In context
How Michel A 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 17,687 gross tons, Michel A is the 28,394th 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 3.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 15,911th by tonnage — larger than 68% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.
Turkey is the country of registry for 748 vessels in this directory, of which Michel A is the 113th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (450 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,113 GT. Browse every ship flagged Turkey.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 450 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Turkey flag, of which 71 are larger by tonnage.
Michel A 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 879th 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 84 vessels to Peene-Werft, with a median tonnage of 8,821 GT, delivered between 1967 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 184.0 m overall, Michel A is 69.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record and a draft of 9.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9379349 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Peene-Werft
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 ARKAS Line
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.
