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Dry Bulk Freight Index2,490 -1.3%Capesize3,538 -2.8%Panamax2,124 +0.7%Dirty Tanker Index1,935 +1.1%Supramax1,668 -0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,280 -1.4%Handysize947 +0.2%Dry Bulk Freight Index2,490 -1.3%Capesize3,538 -2.8%Panamax2,124 +0.7%Dirty Tanker Index1,935 +1.1%Supramax1,668 -0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,280 -1.4%Handysize947 +0.2%Dry Bulk Freight Index2,490 -1.3%Capesize3,538 -2.8%Panamax2,124 +0.7%Dirty Tanker Index1,935 +1.1%Supramax1,668 -0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,280 -1.4%Handysize947 +0.2%Dry Bulk Freight Index2,490 -1.3%Capesize3,538 -2.8%Panamax2,124 +0.7%Dirty Tanker Index1,935 +1.1%Supramax1,668 -0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,280 -1.4%Handysize947 +0.2%Dry Bulk Freight Index2,490 -1.3%Capesize3,538 -2.8%Panamax2,124 +0.7%Dirty Tanker Index1,935 +1.1%Supramax1,668 -0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,280 -1.4%Handysize947 +0.2%Dry Bulk Freight Index2,490 -1.3%Capesize3,538 -2.8%Panamax2,124 +0.7%Dirty Tanker Index1,935 +1.1%Supramax1,668 -0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,280 -1.4%Handysize947 +0.2%
Asphalt or Bitumen Tanker🇨🇰 Cook IslandsActive

BITUMEN STAR

Built by Murakami Hide Shipbuilding in 1997

IMO
9159282
MMSI
518998204
Call Sign
E5U4182

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage
3,964GT
Deadweight
4,993DWT
Length Overall
102.99m
Beam
17.8m
Draught
6.1m
Year Built
1997

Intelligence

Risk & Sustainability

Risk scoreHigh
48/ 100
Safety48
Compliance47
Environment48
Carbon intensity · estimatedE

This ship has no verified emissions report. We estimate a band E from its segment, size and age (100% confidence).

Estimate, not a reported figure. Within one band 95% of the time on reported peers.

Composite Risk

Risk Score

98/100
High riskLow confidence40% component coverage

Strong, corroborated adverse evidence — a detention, sanctions exposure or a dark-fleet signal.

PSC detentionsno data
Sanctions exposureno data
Dark-fleet signalno data
Hull age96
Flag register100

A coverage-weighted blend of the 2 components we could read for this hull — the weights renormalise over only the components present, so a thin read is never inflated and a hull is never credited a “safe 0” for a signal it has no row for. This headline is flagged low-confidence (a thin or structural-only read) and should not be treated as a verdict. Higher means riskier. Derived in-house from government-open port-State-control, flag, sanctions and our own vessel data; weight it by the coverage above.

Estimated

Capacity & Classification

Cargo capacity at draughtHigh confidence
~4,993t at summer draught

Tanker · summer draught 6.1 m · 11.5 t per cm immersion

Estimated intake by draught
4.27 m~2,883 t
4.57 m~3,235 t
4.88 m~3,587 t
5.19 m~3,938 t
5.49 m~4,290 t
5.79 m~4,641 t
6.1 m~4,993 t

Estimate only — modelled from deadweight (hull geometry) using a first-principles hydrostatic model, not measured hydrostatic tables. The design draught it is anchored to is unreliable across the fleet.

Type classification
Declared
Tanker
Inferred from size
Tanker

density DWT/GT=1.26 is consistent with declared tanker

DWT/GT 1.26Beam/LOA 0.173Declared type: Asphalt or Bitumen Tanker

Declared type is consistent with the class implied by the vessel’s size signals. Inferred via our shared size-based classifier.

Commercial

Voyage Estimate

From 4,993 DWT · ~9 t/day · bunker @ live VLSFO.

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