Vela Gas

At 45,801 gross tons, Vela Gas is the 10,846th 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 7.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 578 lpg carriers held here, it ranks 49th by tonnage — larger than 92% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,901 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 44,690 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (100 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 40 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Vela Gas is the 1,622nd 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 100 lpg carriers flying the Panama flag, of which 17 are larger by tonnage.

Vela Gas was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 267th 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 99 vessels to Sakaide Works, with a median tonnage of 68,654 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2018. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 227.0 m overall, Vela Gas is 127.8 m longer than the 99.2 m median for lpg carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9274563 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 2004 and which range from 2002 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.