Montara

At 20,157 gross tons, Montara is the 26,599th 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 3.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 5,039th by tonnage — larger than 22% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Barbados is the country of registry for 215 vessels in this directory, of which Montara is the 37th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (85 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,937 GT. Browse every ship flagged Barbados.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 29 bulk carriers flying the Barbados flag, of which 11 are larger by tonnage.

Montara was built in 2001, making it 25 years old. It is one of 1,268 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 14,062 GT; within it this ship is the 527th 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 180 vessels to Hakodate Dock, with a median tonnage of 19,796 GT, delivered between 1964 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 176.0 m overall, Montara is 14.0 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9234202 this registry holds 83 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 2000 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.