MV Tiksi

At 9,501 gross tons, MV Tiksi is the 36,820th 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 1.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 770th by tonnage — larger than 86% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.

Soviet Union is the country of registry for 23 vessels in this directory, of which MV Tiksi is the 2nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (16 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,900 GT. Browse every ship flagged Soviet Union.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 3 general cargos flying the Soviet Union flag, of which none is larger than MV Tiksi.

MV Tiksi was built in 1960, making it 66 years old. It is one of 315 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 530 GT; within it this ship is the 15th largest. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 101 vessels to Burmeister & Wain, with a median tonnage of 39,376 GT, delivered between 1903 and 1995. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 157.5 m overall, MV Tiksi is 56.5 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record, with a beam of 19.5 m and a draft of 2.1 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5361291 this registry holds 18 other vessels. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.