Europalink

At 46,119 gross tons, Europalink is the 10,778th 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 7.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 10th by tonnage — larger than 99% 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.

Sweden is the country of registry for 370 vessels in this directory, of which Europalink is the 23rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (195 ships), and the median vessel measures 972 GT. Browse every ship flagged Sweden.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 48 ferrys flying the Sweden flag, of which none is larger than Europalink.

Europalink was built in 2007, making it 19 years old. It is one of 2,469 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,473 GT; within it this ship is the 357th 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 214.0 m overall, Europalink is 110.0 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 9319454 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 2006 and which range from 2004 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2007.

Its IMO number, 9319454, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 1×5 + 9×4 + 4×3 + 5×2 = 144 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.