Nordic Pollux

At 78,922 gross tons, Nordic Pollux is the 5,930th 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 13 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 558th by tonnage — larger than 81% 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.

Cayman Islands is the country of registry for 559 vessels in this directory, of which Nordic Pollux is the 8th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (408 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,182 GT. Browse every ship flagged Cayman Islands.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 4 oil tankers flying the Cayman Islands flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

Nordic Pollux was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 117th 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 181 vessels to NKK, with a median tonnage of 56,076 GT, delivered between 1958 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 274.0 m overall, Nordic Pollux is 95.0 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 9239848 this registry holds 71 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 2000 to 2009. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.