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Largest in this registry
#277
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest cruise ship
#17
of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 11 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
AIDAnova is a cruise ship built by Meyer Werft GmbH in Papenburg, Germany under contract from Carnival Corporation for AIDA Cruises. The first of the new Excellence-class ships, she was launched on 21 August 2018 and delivered on 12 December 2018.
She has one sister ship, AIDAcosma, delivered on 21 December 2021.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 183,200 gross tons, AIDAnova is the 277th 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 31 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 17th by tonnage — larger than 97% of that group. Their median tonnage is 43,009 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 143,289 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is The Bahamas (133 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Fincantieri, with 112 hulls on record.
Italy is the country of registry for 918 vessels in this directory, of which AIDAnova is the 2nd 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 33 cruise ships flying the Italy flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.
AIDAnova was built in 2018, making it 8 years old. It is one of 1,246 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 18,960 GT; within it this ship is the 47th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 160 vessels to Meyer Werft, with a median tonnage of 16,324 GT, delivered between 1902 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 337.0 m overall, AIDAnova is 138.9 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 42.0 m and a draft of 8.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9781865 this registry holds 62 other vessels, whose median build year is 2017 and which range from 2015 to 2021. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2018.
Its IMO number, 9781865, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 8×5 + 1×4 + 8×3 + 6×2 = 185 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among cruise ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Arvia | 2022 | 185,581 |
| MSC Euribia | 2023 | 184,011 |
| MS Iona | 2020 | 184,000 |
| AIDAnova (this ship) | 2018 | 183,200 |
| MSC Grandiosa | 2019 | 181,541 |
| MSC Meraviglia | 2017 | 171,589 |
| MSC Bellissima |
Record
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
Class
| Ship | IMO | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Costa Smeralda | 9781889 | Italy | 2019 | 183 |
| MS Iona | 9826548 | — | 2020 | 184,000 |
Same fleet
Provenance
| 2019 |
| 171,500 |