At 12,061 gross tons, Sapura Esmeralda is the 33,371st 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 2.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,423 offshore supplys held here, it ranks 49th by tonnage — larger than 97% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,061 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 4,961 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (283 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is North American Shipbuilding, with 55 hulls on record.
Brazil is the country of registry for 445 vessels in this directory, of which Sapura Esmeralda is the 94th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (296 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,519 GT. Browse every ship flagged Brazil.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 55 offshore supplys flying the Brazil flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.
Sapura Esmeralda was built in 2015, making it 11 years old. It is one of 1,804 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,303 GT; within it this ship is the 1,132nd 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 100 vessels to Damen Group, with a median tonnage of 450 GT, delivered between 1964 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 133.0 m overall, Sapura Esmeralda is 65.9 m longer than the 67.1 m median for offshore supplys on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9656204 this registry holds 61 other vessels, whose median build year is 2013 and which range from 2011 to 2015. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2015.
Its IMO number, 9656204, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 6×6 + 5×5 + 6×4 + 2×3 + 0×2 = 154 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
