At 52,265 gross tons, Asuka III is the 9,369th 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 8.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 231st by tonnage — larger than 54% 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.
Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which Asuka III is the 217th 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 5 cruise ships flying the Japan flag, of which none is larger than Asuka III.
Asuka III was built in 2025, making it 1 year old. It is one of 88 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 62,716 GT; within it this ship is the 37th 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.
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 230.0 m overall, Asuka III is 31.9 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 29.8 m and a draft of 6.7 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9936355 this registry holds 11 other vessels, whose median build year is 2024 and which range from 2022 to 2026. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2025.
Its IMO number, 9936355, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 9×6 + 3×5 + 6×4 + 3×3 + 5×2 = 175 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
