Aoi

At 5,200 gross tons, Aoi is the 43,849th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 404th by tonnage — larger than 54% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,908 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 25,454 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Japan (241 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with 34 hulls on record.

Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which Aoi is the 574th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,534 ships), and the median vessel measures 764 GT. Browse every ship flagged Japan.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 241 ferrys flying the Japan flag, of which 118 are larger by tonnage.

Aoi was built in 2022, making it 4 years old. It is one of 158 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,795 GT; within it this ship is the 71st largest. Across the whole of the 2020s the registry holds 1,769 vessels, median 29,777 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 132.0 m overall, Aoi is 28.0 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9928279 this registry holds 4 other vessels, whose median build year is 2022. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2022.

Its IMO number, 9928279, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 9×6 + 2×5 + 8×4 + 2×3 + 7×2 = 179 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.