Stena Arctica

At 65,293 gross tons, Stena Arctica is the 7,023rd 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 11 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 144th by tonnage — larger than 94% 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.

Finland is the country of registry for 249 vessels in this directory, of which Stena Arctica is the 2nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (110 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,673 GT. Browse every ship flagged Finland.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2 tankers flying the Finland flag, of which none is larger than Stena Arctica.

Stena Arctica was built in 2005, making it 21 years old. It is one of 1,690 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,046 GT; within it this ship is the 176th 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 1,092 vessels to HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 65,131 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 249.0 m overall, Stena Arctica is 110.0 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9305556 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 2005 and which range from 2003 to 2009. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2005.

Its IMO number, 9305556, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 0×5 + 5×4 + 5×3 + 5×2 = 126 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.