Simba

At 57,508 gross tons, Simba is the 8,515th 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 9.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 793rd by tonnage — larger than 73% of that group. Their median tonnage is 22,184 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 149,274 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (301 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 190 hulls on record.

Gabon is the country of registry for 48 vessels in this directory, of which Simba is the 5th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (23 ships), and the median vessel measures 11,829 GT. Browse every ship flagged Gabon.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 13 oil tankers flying the Gabon flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

Simba was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 163rd 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 587 vessels to HD Hyundai Samho, with a median tonnage of 81,380 GT, delivered between 1995 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 244.0 m overall, Simba is 65.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9233234 this registry holds 72 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 2000 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.