Western Santiago

At 27,011 gross tons, Western Santiago is the 21,691st 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 4.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 3,945th by tonnage — larger than 39% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Russia is the country of registry for 2,810 vessels in this directory, of which Western Santiago is the 36th 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 11 bulk carriers flying the Russia flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

Western Santiago 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 301st 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 230 vessels to Mitsui Tamano Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 31,228 GT, delivered between 1950 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 189.8 m overall, Western Santiago is within a metre of the 190.0 m median length for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9150808 this registry holds 51 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.