Express Santorini

At 7,821 gross tons, Express Santorini is the 38,960th 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 1.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 330th by tonnage — larger than 63% 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.

United Arab Emirates is the country of registry for 272 vessels in this directory, of which Express Santorini is the 30th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (169 ships), and the median vessel measures 686 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Arab Emirates.

Express Santorini was built in 1974, making it 52 years old. It is one of 2,111 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,681 GT; within it this ship is the 587th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 23 vessels to Chantiers Dubigeon, with a median tonnage of 12,686 GT, delivered between 1896 and 1984. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 115.4 m overall, Express Santorini is 11.4 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 19.2 m and a draft of 4.2 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7330040 this registry holds 63 other vessels, whose median build year is 1973 and which range from 1967 to 1975. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1974.

Its IMO number, 7330040, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 3×6 + 3×5 + 0×4 + 0×3 + 4×2 = 90 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.