Cruise Barcelona

At 54,310 gross tons, Cruise Barcelona is the 9,049th 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 9.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 4th by tonnage — larger than 100% 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.

Italy is the country of registry for 918 vessels in this directory, of which Cruise Barcelona is the 78th 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 97 ferrys flying the Italy flag, of which none is larger than Cruise Barcelona.

Cruise Barcelona was built in 2008, making it 18 years old. It is one of 2,764 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,971 GT; within it this ship is the 342nd largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 226 vessels to Fincantieri, with a median tonnage of 54,655 GT, delivered between 1935 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 224.0 m overall, Cruise Barcelona is 120.0 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 30.4 m and a draft of 7.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9351488 this registry holds 68 other vessels, whose median build year is 2007 and which range from 2005 to 2010. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2008.

Its IMO number, 9351488, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 5×5 + 1×4 + 4×3 + 8×2 = 138 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.