FSO Asia

At 236,638 gross tons, FSO Asia is the 18th 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 39 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 3rd by tonnage — larger than 100% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

Marshall Islands is the country of registry for 3,838 vessels in this directory, of which FSO Asia is the 1st 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 2,407 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Marshall Islands flag, of which none is larger than FSO Asia.

FSO Asia was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 1st 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 1,090 vessels to Hanwha Ocean, with a median tonnage of 84,214 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 366.0 m overall, FSO Asia is 251.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 68.0 m and a draft of 24.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9224752 this registry holds 71 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 1970 to 2003. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.

Its IMO number, 9224752, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 2×5 + 4×4 + 7×3 + 5×2 = 132 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.