Pacific Ethylene

At 1,276 gross tons, Pacific Ethylene is the 63,489th 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 4.7 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 35,816th by tonnage — larger than 28% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which Pacific Ethylene is the 1,068th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,534 ships), and the median vessel measures 764 GT. Browse every ship flagged Japan.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,534 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Japan flag, of which 490 are larger by tonnage.

Pacific Ethylene was built in 1985, making it 41 years old. It is one of 1,312 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,782 GT; within it this ship is the 966th 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.

At 73.0 m overall, Pacific Ethylene is 42.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8413007 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 1985 and which range from 1983 to 1987. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1985.