At 43,810 gross tons, Positive Leader is the 11,691st 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 7.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 282nd by tonnage — larger than 39% of that group. Their median tonnage is 49,792 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 68,871 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (132 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with 41 hulls on record.
Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Positive Leader is the 1,780th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 132 car carriers flying the Panama flag, of which 88 are larger by tonnage.
Positive Leader was built in 2006, making it 20 years old. It is one of 2,118 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,539 GT; within it this ship is the 338th 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 57 vessels to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Shimonoseki Shipyard & Machinery Works, with a median tonnage of 3,614 GT, delivered between 1967 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 180.0 m overall, Positive Leader is 13.9 m shorter than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9340776 this registry holds 63 other vessels, whose median build year is 2006 and which range from 2004 to 2012. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2006.
Its IMO number, 9340776, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 4×5 + 0×4 + 7×3 + 7×2 = 136 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
