European Highway

At 48,039 gross tons, European Highway is the 10,277th 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 8.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 248th by tonnage — larger than 47% of that group. Their median tonnage is 49,792 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 68,871 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (132 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with 41 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which European Highway is the 1,512th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 132 car carriers flying the Panama flag, of which 76 are larger by tonnage.

European Highway was built in 1999, making it 27 years old. It is one of 1,252 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,594 GT; within it this ship is the 170th 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 99 vessels to Sakaide Works, with a median tonnage of 68,654 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2018. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 179.0 m overall, European Highway is 14.9 m shorter than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9206011 this registry holds 65 other vessels, whose median build year is 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.