At 62,994 gross tons, Pleiades Leader is the 7,381st 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 11 times 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 3,999th by tonnage — larger than 92% 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 Pleiades Leader is the 169th 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 97 are larger by tonnage.
Pleiades Leader was built in 2009, making it 17 years old. It is one of 2,834 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,673 GT; within it this ship is the 313th 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 740 vessels to Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with a median tonnage of 16,762 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 199.0 m overall, Pleiades Leader is 84.0 m longer 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 9426374 this registry holds 81 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 2006 to 2019. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2009.
Its IMO number, 9426374, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 2×5 + 6×4 + 3×3 + 7×2 = 144 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
