Mostefa Ben Boulaid

At 81,337 gross tons, Mostefa Ben Boulaid is the 5,652nd 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 14 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 270 lng carriers held here, it ranks 214th by tonnage — larger than 14% of that group. Their median tonnage is 105,826 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 128,416 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Marshall Islands (37 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Samsung Heavy Industries, with 39 hulls on record.

Algeria is the country of registry for 72 vessels in this directory, of which Mostefa Ben Boulaid is the 3rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (42 ships), and the median vessel measures 7,050 GT. Browse every ship flagged Algeria.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 5 lng carriers flying the Algeria flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Mostefa Ben Boulaid was built in 1976, making it 50 years old. It is one of 1,812 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,484 GT; within it this ship is the 77th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 278.0 m overall, Mostefa Ben Boulaid is 10.0 m shorter than the 288.0 m median for lng carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7359955 this registry holds 65 other vessels, whose median build year is 1975 and which range from 1974 to 1978. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1976.

Its IMO number, 7359955, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 165 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.