At 73,904 gross tons, Explora III is the 6,340th 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 12 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 179th by tonnage — larger than 65% 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.
Explora III was built in 2026, making it 0 years old. It is one of 26 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,578 GT; within it this ship is the 2nd 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 268.0 m overall, Explora III is 69.9 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 9869899 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 2026.
Its IMO number, 9869899, 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 + 9×2 = 219 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
