Umm Al Ashtan

At 116,703 gross tons, Umm Al Ashtan is the 2,284th 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 19 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 270 lng carriers held here, it ranks 47th by tonnage — larger than 81% of that group. Their median tonnage is 105,826 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 128,416 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Marshall Islands (37 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Samsung Heavy Industries, with 39 hulls on record.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Umm Al Ashtan is the 278th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 12 lng carriers flying the Liberia flag, of which none is larger than Umm Al Ashtan.

Umm Al Ashtan was built in 1997, making it 29 years old. It is one of 1,319 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,388 GT; within it this ship is the 10th 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 46 vessels to Kvaerner Masa-Yards, with a median tonnage of 70,367 GT, delivered between 1990 and 2004. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 290.1 m overall, Umm Al Ashtan is 2.1 m longer than the 288.0 m median for lng carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9074652 this registry holds 54 other vessels, whose median build year is 1994. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.