Stena Contest

At 27,357 gross tons, Stena Contest is the 21,534th 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 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 543rd by tonnage — larger than 76% 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.

Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Stena Contest is the 471st 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 73 tankers flying the Norway flag, of which 14 are larger by tonnage.

Stena Contest 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 636th 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 144 vessels to Uljanik, with a median tonnage of 25,600 GT, delivered between 1952 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 182.5 m overall, Stena Contest is 43.5 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record, with a beam of 32.2 m and a draft of 11.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9272199 this registry holds 41 other vessels, whose median build year is 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.