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Pioneering Spirit

Built by Hanwha Ocean in 2014

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IMO: 9593505

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage

403,342GT

Length Overall

382m

Year Built

2014

Overview

About This Vessel

Pioneering Spirit (formerly Pieter Schelte) is a split hull crane vessel owned by the Switzerland-based Allseas Group designed for the single-lift installation and removal of large oil and gas platforms, and pipelines. The 382-metre-long (1,253 ft), 124-metre-wide (407 ft) vessel is the world's largest vessel by gross tonnage, the heaviest vehicle ever made and since September 2021 also the largest floating sheerleg in the world. It was built in South Korea by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (now Hanwha Ocean) in 2013 at a cost of €2.6 billion. It commenced offshore operations in August 2016.

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Risk & Sustainability

Carbon intensity · 2025A

53,871t CO₂

AER (CO₂/capacity·nm): 9
Fuel burned: 17,003 t
Technical: Not Applicable

Verified reported figure. Band is peer-relative, not official IMO CII.

Composite Risk

Risk Score

28/100

Moderate riskLow confidence20% component coverage

Some elevated factors (typically age or a lower-graded flag), but no acute ship-specific flag.

PSC detentionsno data

Sanctions exposureno data

AIS-gap & behaviourno data

Hull age28

Flag registerno data

A coverage-weighted blend of the single component 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.

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Ownership & Management

Owner

Allseas

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