Molecule

At 41,825 gross tons, Molecule is the 12,833rd 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 7.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 1,071st by tonnage — larger than 64% 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.

Cameroon is the country of registry for 80 vessels in this directory, of which Molecule is the 18th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (35 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,550 GT. Browse every ship flagged Cameroon.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 16 oil tankers flying the Cameroon flag, of which 11 are larger by tonnage.

Molecule was built in 1999, making it 27 years old. It is one of 1,252 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,594 GT; within it this ship is the 181st largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 274 vessels to Namura Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 44,442 GT, delivered between 1966 and 2018. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 235.0 m overall, Molecule is 56.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9209300 this registry holds 45 other vessels, whose median build year is 2000 and which range from 1999 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.