Côte d'Opale

At 40,617 gross tons, Côte d'Opale is the 13,402nd 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 6.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 18th by tonnage — larger than 98% 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.

Côte d'Opale was built in 2021, making it 5 years old. It is one of 251 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 15,776 GT; within it this ship is the 41st 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 15 vessels to China Merchants Jinling Shipyard (Weihai), with a median tonnage of 37,594 GT, delivered between 2005 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 215.0 m overall, Côte d'Opale is 111.0 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 9858321 this registry holds 40 other vessels, whose median build year is 2020 and which range from 2018 to 2021. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2021.

Its IMO number, 9858321, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 8×6 + 5×5 + 8×4 + 3×3 + 2×2 = 181 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.