Morning Saga

At 43,294 gross tons, Morning Saga is the 12,026th 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 7.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 287th by tonnage — larger than 38% 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.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Morning Saga is the 1,624th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 29 car carriers flying the Liberia flag, of which 16 are larger by tonnage.

Morning Saga was built in 1981, making it 45 years old. It is one of 1,653 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,186 GT; within it this ship is the 71st 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 597 vessels to Tsuneishi Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 38,530 GT, delivered between 1968 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 186.0 m overall, Morning Saga is 7.9 m shorter than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8015142 this registry holds 61 other vessels, whose median build year is 1980. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.