Aquanus

At 61,724 gross tons, Aquanus is the 7,708th 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 10 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 680th by tonnage — larger than 77% 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.

Marshall Islands is the country of registry for 3,838 vessels in this directory, of which Aquanus is the 768th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,407 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,987 GT. Browse every ship flagged Marshall Islands.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 131 oil tankers flying the Marshall Islands flag, of which 61 are larger by tonnage.

Aquanus was built in 2006, making it 20 years old. It is one of 2,118 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,539 GT; within it this ship is the 232nd 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.

At 245.0 m overall, Aquanus is 66.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9299355 this registry holds 80 other vessels, whose median build year is 2005 and which range from 2003 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2006.

Its IMO number, 9299355, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 175 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.