At 63,621 gross tons, Explora I is the 7,268th 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 11 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 213th by tonnage — larger than 58% of that group. Their median tonnage is 43,009 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 143,289 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is The Bahamas (133 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Fincantieri, with 112 hulls on record.
Malta is the country of registry for 2,640 vessels in this directory, of which Explora I is the 367th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,614 ships), and the median vessel measures 23,204 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malta.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 57 cruise ships flying the Malta flag, of which 30 are larger by tonnage.
Explora I was built in 2023, making it 3 years old. It is one of 144 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 15,666 GT; within it this ship is the 31st 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 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 248.9 m overall, Explora I is 50.7 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9869875 this registry holds 29 other vessels, whose median build year is 2020 and which range from 2018 to 2026. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2023.
Its IMO number, 9869875, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 8×6 + 6×5 + 9×4 + 8×3 + 7×2 = 215 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
