Gianfranco

At 362 gross tons, Gianfranco is the 76,641st 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 17 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 360 dredgers held here, it ranks 338th by tonnage — larger than 3% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,086 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,701 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is People's Republic of China (43 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Royal IHC, with 21 hulls on record.

Italy is the country of registry for 918 vessels in this directory, of which Gianfranco is the 699th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (488 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,975 GT. Browse every ship flagged Italy.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 4 dredgers flying the Italy flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.

Gianfranco was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 1,159th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 24.0 m overall, Gianfranco is 56.0 m shorter than the 80.0 m median for dredgers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9446544 this registry holds 62 other vessels, whose median build year is 2009 and which range from 2002 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.

Its IMO number, 9446544, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 = 154 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.