At 8,360 gross tons, KL Saltfjord is the 38,342nd 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 1.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,471 tugs held here, it ranks 5th by tonnage — larger than 100% of that group. Their median tonnage is 393 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 1,733 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (239 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Damen Shipyards Gorinchem, with 62 hulls on record.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which KL Saltfjord is the 769th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 38 tugs flying the Norway flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.
KL Saltfjord was built in 2011, making it 15 years old. It is one of 2,848 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 1,871st 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.
The registry attributes 74 vessels to Langsten Slip & Båtbyggeri, with a median tonnage of 4,797 GT, delivered between 1967 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 95.0 m overall, KL Saltfjord is 62.7 m longer than the 32.3 m median for tugs on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9470478 this registry holds 59 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 2007 to 2017. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2011.
Its IMO number, 9470478, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 7×5 + 0×4 + 4×3 + 7×2 = 148 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
