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EXPLORE THE FLEET

The fleet,
at a glance.

230 profiles, drawn into distributions, top lists and current leaders. Everything is computed from the published directory on build time.

Vessels in the directory230
Longest overallPrelude FLNG488 m
Largest gross tonnagePioneering Spirit403,342 GT
Widest beamPioneering Spirit124 m
Most container slotsMSC Irina24,346 TEU

Fleet by type

Container ships
153
Cruise ships
64
Tankers
7
Bulk carriers
2
Historic liners
2
Construction vessels
1
Floating LNG facilities
1

Container ships and cruise ships dominate the published collection; other types are present in smaller numbers.

Fleet by service status

Listed active
196
In service
24
Scrapped
9
Lost
1

“Listed active” reflects the source fleet list, not a fresh registry survey.

How long are the giants?

Length distribution

0–50 m m
0
50–100 m m
0
100–150 m m
0
150–200 m m
0
200–250 m m
1
250–300 m m
3
300–350 m m
54
350–400 m m
128
400–450 m m
42
≥ 450 m m
2

Gross-tonnage distribution

0–50k GT
0
50–100k GT
0
100–150k GT
17
150–200k GT
58
200–250k GT
144
250–300k GT
4
300–350k GT
1
350–400k GT
0
≥ 400k GT
1

Length buckets of 50 m and GT buckets of 50,000 GT, counting only profiles with the value recorded. Seawise Giant (458.45 m) sits in the 450–499 m bucket; floater Prelude FLNG, when included, moves there too.

When were they built?

1850s
1
1860s
0
1870s
0
1880s
0
1890s
0
1900s
0
1910s
1
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
0
1950s
0
1960s
0
1970s
7
1980s
1
1990s
0
2000s
6
2010s
89
2020s
111

By decade of the build year recorded on the profile. Latest recorded build: 2026 · earliest: 1859.

The longest twelve

1Seawise Giant
458.45 m
2Pierre Guillaumat
414.23 m
3Batillus
414.22 m
4Bellamya
414.22 m
5Prairial
414.22 m
6Esso Atlantic
406.57 m
7Esso Pacific
406.57 m
8Al Dahna
400 m
9Al Muraykh
400 m
10Al Nefud
400 m
11Al Zubara
400 m
12Barzan
400 m

Bar width is relative to the longest vessel shown. Compare them directly →

The twelve largest by gross tonnage

1Pioneering Spirit
403,342 GT
2Batillus
275,268 GT
3Prairial
274,826 GT
4Bellamya
274,276 GT
5Seawise Giant
260,941 GT
6Icon of the Seas
248,663 GT
7Legend of the Seas
248,663 GT
8Star of the Seas
248,663 GT
9CMA CGM Notre Dame
236,800 GT
10CMA CGM Champs Elysées
236,583 GT
11CMA CGM Concorde
236,583 GT
12CMA CGM Jacques Saadé
236,583 GT

GT measures enclosed volume, not weight. The full ranking →

Download the underlying dataset →Methodology →
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