The Diamond Princess is in the Malacca Strait tonight, across from the island Penang (part of Malaysia; I put an asterisk on the map that I found here on the ship).
She continues to make her way to Phuket.
This morning I spotted the LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) tanker vessel called IDD AL SHARGI.
She is brand new (delivered in 2025), and sails under the flag of Singapore.
Idd El Shargi is one of Qatar’s largest and most significant offshore oil fields, located about 85 km / 53 miles east of Doha in the Arabian Gulf.
Her gross tonnage* is 115,513, length 299 m / 981 ft and beam 46 m / 151 ft.
These numbers are very similar to those of the Diamond Princess: tonnage 115,875, length 288 m/ 945 ft and beam 37.5 m / 123 ft.
*Gross tonnage is a volume measurement, not a weight measurement, expressed as a numerical value derived from cubic meters.
