Sobar

At 83,723 gross tons, Sobar is the 5,336th 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 14 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 424th by tonnage — larger than 86% 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.

Iran is the country of registry for 422 vessels in this directory, of which Sobar is the 38th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (245 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,793 GT. Browse every ship flagged Iran.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 28 oil tankers flying the Iran flag, of which 13 are larger by tonnage.

Sobar was built in 2001, making it 25 years old. It is one of 1,268 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 14,062 GT; within it this ship is the 66th 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 1,090 vessels to Hanwha Ocean, with a median tonnage of 84,214 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 274.0 m overall, Sobar is 95.0 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 9221970 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 1999 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.