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Ferry
Operator on record: (1998–2002): Blue Highway Line
Photo: ©2008 K. Krallis, SV1XV · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#16,934
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest ferry
#37
of 882 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
Elyros is a Greek ferry, which is the second newest ship, being part of ANEK Lines fleet, following Asterion II. She is a motor Ro-Ro/Passenger ferryboat, built in 1998 at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipyard at Shimonoseki, Japan, and put into service by ANEK at 2008 (previously operated under different names and owners). It holds a total of 1,874 passengers and 620 vehicles, She has 323 passenger air type seats. She has two Pielstick 12PC4-2 engines, with combined power of 26,180 kW and reaches speeds of up to 24 knots. It also has an internet cafe. The ship has been awarded by ShipPax Awards 2009 as the ship with the best retrofit for 2008. It was named after Elyros; an ancient city of southwestern Crete.
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 33,635 gross tons, Elyros is the 16,934th 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 5.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 37th by tonnage — larger than 96% 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.
Greece is the country of registry for 1,164 vessels in this directory, of which Elyros is the 487th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (835 ships), and the median vessel measures 29,858 GT. Browse every ship flagged Greece.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 26 ferrys flying the Greece flag, of which none is larger than Elyros.
Elyros was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 232nd 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.
The registry attributes 104 vessels to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 21,438 GT, delivered between 1948 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 192.0 m overall, Elyros is 88.0 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 27.0 m and a draft of 6.7 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9178599 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 1998 and which range from 1997 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.
Its IMO number, 9178599, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 7×5 + 8×4 + 5×3 + 9×2 = 169 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among ferrys
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Côte des Flandres | 2005 | 33,796 |
| MS Stena Saga | 1981 | 33,750 |
| Finnfellow | 2000 | 33,724 |
| Elyros (this ship) | 1998 | 33,635 |
| Moby Dada | 1981 | 33,575 |
| MS GNV Cristal | 1989 | 33,336 |
| Majestic |
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.
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Elyros (ship) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy ©2008 K. Krallis, SV1XV, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.
| 1993 |
| 33,057 |