Autoroute

At 7,114 gross tons, Autoroute is the 40,115th 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 1.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 22,978th by tonnage — larger than 54% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

Italy is the country of registry for 918 vessels in this directory, of which Autoroute is the 379th 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 488 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Italy flag, of which 173 are larger by tonnage.

Autoroute was built in 1979, making it 47 years old. It is one of 1,718 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,382 GT; within it this ship is the 449th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 99.0 m overall, Autoroute is 16.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7822079 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 1979 and which range from 1978 to 1982. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1979.

Its IMO number, 7822079, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 129 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.