Star Advance

At 27,526 gross tons, Star Advance is the 21,481st 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 4.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 604 chemical / products tankers held here, it ranks 49th by tonnage — larger than 91% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,979 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 25,682 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (80 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 35 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Star Advance is the 3,563rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 80 chemical / products tankers flying the Panama flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.

Star Advance was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 283rd largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 20 vessels to Brodotrogir, with a median tonnage of 24,898 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 182.0 m overall, Star Advance is 62.9 m longer than the 119.1 m median for chemical / products tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9149249 this registry holds 54 other vessels, whose median build year is 1998. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.