At 38,531 gross tons, AIDAcara is the 14,572nd 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 6.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 617 passenger vessels held here, it ranks 6th by tonnage — larger than 99% of that group. Their median tonnage is 909 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,718 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Egypt (65 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Meyer Werft, with 16 hulls on record.
Italy is the country of registry for 918 vessels in this directory, of which AIDAcara is the 155th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (488 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,975 GT. Browse every ship flagged Italy.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 13 passenger vessels flying the Italy flag, of which none is larger than AIDAcara.
AIDAcara was built in 1996, making it 30 years old. It is one of 1,254 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,254 GT; within it this ship is the 185th 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 46 vessels to Kvaerner Masa-Yards, with a median tonnage of 70,367 GT, delivered between 1990 and 2004. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 193.3 m overall, AIDAcara is 132.3 m longer than the 61.0 m median for passenger vessels on record, with a beam of 27.6 m and a draft of 6.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9112789 this registry holds 57 other vessels, whose median build year is 1996 and which range from 1994 to 2002. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1996.
Its IMO number, 9112789, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 1×5 + 2×4 + 7×3 + 8×2 = 119 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
