Shen Hai

At 98,068 gross tons, Shen Hai is the 3,404th 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 16 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 270 lng carriers held here, it ranks 153rd by tonnage — larger than 39% of that group. Their median tonnage is 105,826 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 128,416 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Marshall Islands (37 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Samsung Heavy Industries, with 39 hulls on record.

Hong Kong is the country of registry for 2,385 vessels in this directory, of which Shen Hai is the 323rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,478 ships), and the median vessel measures 33,042 GT. Browse every ship flagged Hong Kong.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 7 lng carriers flying the Hong Kong flag, of which 6 are larger by tonnage.

Shen Hai was built in 2012, making it 14 years old. It is one of 2,747 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 179th 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 368 vessels to Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 40,437 GT, delivered between 1960 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 290.0 m overall, Shen Hai is 2.0 m longer than the 288.0 m median for lng carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9583677 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011 and which range from 2007 to 2014. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2012.

Its IMO number, 9583677, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 5×6 + 8×5 + 3×4 + 6×3 + 7×2 = 177 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.