Spar Draco

At 32,474 gross tons, Spar Draco is the 17,883rd 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 5.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 3,280th by tonnage — larger than 49% 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.

Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Spar Draco is the 370th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 24 bulk carriers flying the Norway flag, of which 15 are larger by tonnage.

Spar Draco was built in 2006, making it 20 years old. It is one of 2,118 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,539 GT; within it this ship is the 513th 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 167 vessels to Chengxi Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 32,474 GT, delivered between 1993 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 188.9 m overall, Spar Draco is 1.1 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record, with a beam of 32.3 m and a draft of 12.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9299305 this registry holds 79 other vessels. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.