Spabunker 21

At 2,894 gross tons, Spabunker 21 is the 52,721st 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 2.1 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 1,689th by tonnage — larger than 26% of that group. Their median tonnage is 8,256 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 42,340 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (219 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 175 hulls on record.

Spain is the country of registry for 720 vessels in this directory, of which Spabunker 21 is the 134th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (483 ships), and the median vessel measures 452 GT. Browse every ship flagged Spain.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 16 tankers flying the Spain flag, of which 7 are larger by tonnage.

Spabunker 21 was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 929th 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 53 vessels to Unión Naval Valencia, with a median tonnage of 462 GT, delivered between 1968 and 2012. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 77.0 m overall, Spabunker 21 is 62.0 m shorter than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9259874 this registry holds 78 other vessels, whose median build year is 2003 and which range from 2001 to 2014. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.