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Largest in this registry
#38,828
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest ferry
#325
of 882 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 4 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Bajamar Express is a 118-metre high-speed trimaran vehicle and passenger ferry operated by Spanish shipping line Fred. Olsen Express. Built in Australia by Austal Ships and delivered in May 2020, she is part of Austal's Auto Express 118 trimaran design. Bajamar Express operates high-speed inter-island ferry connections in the Canary Islands, primarily linking Santa Cruz de Tenerife with Agaete (Gran Canaria) alongside her sister ship, Bañaderos Express.
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 7,916 gross tons, Bajamar Express is the 38,828th 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 1.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 325th by tonnage — larger than 63% 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.
Spain is the country of registry for 720 vessels in this directory, of which Bajamar Express is the 66th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (483 ships), and the median vessel measures 452 GT. Browse every ship flagged Spain.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 8 ferrys flying the Spain flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.
Bajamar Express was built in 2020, making it 6 years old. It is one of 984 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 32,720 GT; within it this ship is the 701st 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 122 vessels to Austal, with a median tonnage of 720 GT, delivered between 1993 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 117.8 m overall, Bajamar Express is 13.8 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 28.5 m and a draft of 4.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9874296 this registry holds 28 other vessels, whose median build year is 2020 and which range from 2019 to 2023. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2020.
Its IMO number, 9874296, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 8×6 + 7×5 + 4×4 + 2×3 + 9×2 = 186 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among ferrys
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| HST-2 | 2007 | 8,127 |
| Speedlink Vanguard | 1973 | 8,104 |
| Ferry Naminoue | 2012 | 8,072 |
| Bajamar Express (this ship) | 2020 | 7,916 |
| Bastø Electric | 2020 | 7,911 |
| Marina | 1971 | 7,895 |
| Bastø VI | 2016 |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Bajamar Express on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Calistemon, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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