Lapis Ace

At 77,695 gross tons, Lapis Ace is the 5,987th 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 13 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 5th by tonnage — larger than 99% of that group. Their median tonnage is 49,792 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 68,871 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (132 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with 41 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Lapis Ace is the 865th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 132 car carriers flying the Panama flag, of which none is larger than Lapis Ace.

Lapis Ace was built in 2024, making it 2 years old. It is one of 116 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,985 GT; within it this ship is the 24th largest. Across the whole of the 2020s the registry holds 1,769 vessels, median 29,777 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 570 vessels to Imabari Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 23,261 GT, delivered between 1966 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 199.9 m overall, Lapis Ace is 6.0 m longer than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record, with a beam of 38.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9991159 this registry holds 3 other vessels, whose median build year is 2024. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2024.

Its IMO number, 9991159, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 9×6 + 9×5 + 1×4 + 1×3 + 5×2 = 179 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.