Batamfast 18

At 233 gross tons, Batamfast 18 is the 79,985th 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 26 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 617 passenger vessels held here, it ranks 411th by tonnage — larger than 16% of that group. Their median tonnage is 909 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,718 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Egypt (65 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Meyer Werft, with 16 hulls on record.

Singapore is the country of registry for 2,873 vessels in this directory, of which Batamfast 18 is the 2,734th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,799 ships), and the median vessel measures 20,927 GT. Browse every ship flagged Singapore.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 6 passenger vessels flying the Singapore flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.

Batamfast 18 was built in 1994, making it 32 years old. It is one of 1,047 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,680 GT; within it this ship is the 954th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 31.0 m overall, Batamfast 18 is 30.0 m shorter than the 61.0 m median for passenger vessels on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9106120 this registry holds 54 other vessels, whose median build year is 1995 and which range from 1993 to 1998. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1994.

Its IMO number, 9106120, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 100 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.