Soyo

At 50,832 gross tons, Soyo is the 9,771st 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 8.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 1,070th by tonnage — larger than 84% 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.

Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which Soyo is the 222nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,534 ships), and the median vessel measures 764 GT. Browse every ship flagged Japan.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 135 bulk carriers flying the Japan flag, of which 31 are larger by tonnage.

Soyo 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 518th 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 753 vessels to Oshima Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 31,871 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 235.0 m overall, Soyo is 45.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record, with a beam of 43.0 m and a draft of 13.1 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9552848 this registry holds 56 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.