Sakura Wave

At 48,022 gross tons, Sakura Wave is the 10,294th 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 8.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 1,165th by tonnage — larger than 82% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Vanuatu is the country of registry for 425 vessels in this directory, of which Sakura Wave is the 6th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (208 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,446 GT. Browse every ship flagged Vanuatu.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 15 bulk carriers flying the Vanuatu flag, of which none is larger than Sakura Wave.

Sakura Wave was built in 2010, making it 16 years old. It is one of 3,028 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 20,204 GT; within it this ship is the 603rd largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 337 vessels to Imabari Shipbuilding Marugame Headquarters, with a median tonnage of 39,738 GT, delivered between 1977 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 229.0 m overall, Sakura Wave is 39.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9554183 this registry holds 38 other vessels. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.