At 6,102 gross tons, Absolute is the 41,780th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 1,722nd by tonnage — larger than 42% 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.
Australia is the country of registry for 466 vessels in this directory, of which Absolute is the 51st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (351 ships), and the median vessel measures 439 GT. Browse every ship flagged Australia.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 3 oil tankers flying the Australia flag, of which none is larger than Absolute.
Absolute was built in 2019, making it 7 years old. It is one of 1,261 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 29,000 GT; within it this ship is the 879th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
At 115.0 m overall, Absolute is 64.0 m shorter than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record and a draft of 7.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9869447 this registry holds 30 other vessels, whose median build year is 2020 and which range from 2018 to 2026. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2019.
Its IMO number, 9869447, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 8×6 + 6×5 + 9×4 + 4×3 + 4×2 = 197 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
