Volgoneft 142

At 3,471 gross tons, Volgoneft 142 is the 49,926th 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 1.7 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 2,068th by tonnage — larger than 30% of that group. Their median tonnage is 22,184 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 149,274 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (301 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 190 hulls on record.

Russia is the country of registry for 2,810 vessels in this directory, of which Volgoneft 142 is the 840th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (830 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,293 GT. Browse every ship flagged Russia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 188 oil tankers flying the Russia flag, of which 92 are larger by tonnage.

Volgoneft 142 was built in 1978, making it 48 years old. It is one of 1,698 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,556 GT; within it this ship is the 752nd largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 263 vessels to Ruse Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 2,491 GT, delivered between 1966 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 132.0 m overall, Volgoneft 142 is 47.0 m shorter than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8866292 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 1978 and which range from 1966 to 1993. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.