Largest in this registry
#10,083
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest car carrier
#236
of 464 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#5
of 7 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
- IMO number
- 9205964
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 357892000
- Call sign
- 3FVX9
- Flag state
- Panama
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Car carrier
In context
How Nippon Highway compares
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 49,212 gross tons, Nippon Highway is the 10,083rd 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 8.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 236th by tonnage — larger than 49% 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 Nippon Highway is the 1,473rd 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 68 are larger by tonnage.
Nippon Highway was built in 1999, making it 27 years old. It is one of 1,252 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,594 GT; within it this ship is the 168th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 597 vessels to Tsuneishi Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 38,530 GT, delivered between 1968 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 179.2 m overall, Nippon Highway is 14.8 m shorter than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9205964 this registry holds 68 other vessels, whose median build year is 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Record
Notable events
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
- 2020ship breaking
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Tsuneishi Shipbuilding
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Same fleet
Other ships operated by K Line
Provenance
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
