Ferry Kitakyushu II

At 14,920 gross tons, Ferry Kitakyushu II is the 30,998th 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 2.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 174th by tonnage — larger than 80% 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.

Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which Ferry Kitakyushu II is the 363rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,534 ships), and the median vessel measures 764 GT. Browse every ship flagged Japan.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 241 ferrys flying the Japan flag, of which 43 are larger by tonnage.

Ferry Kitakyushu II was built in 2015, making it 11 years old. It is one of 1,804 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,303 GT; within it this ship is the 1,105th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 104 vessels to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 21,438 GT, delivered between 1948 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 183.0 m overall, Ferry Kitakyushu II is 79.0 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 9726982 this registry holds 77 other vessels, whose median build year is 2015 and which range from 2014 to 2021. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2015.

Its IMO number, 9726982, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 2×5 + 6×4 + 9×3 + 8×2 = 182 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.