At 3,281 gross tons, GMV Aranui is the 50,549th 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 1.8 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 476th by tonnage — larger than 46% 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.
GMV Aranui was built in 1965, making it 61 years old. It is one of 378 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 695 GT; within it this ship is the 28th largest. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 12 vessels to Vickers, with a median tonnage of 21,207 GT, delivered between 1922 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 112.2 m overall, GMV Aranui is 8.2 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 18.6 m and a draft of 4.7 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 6517067 this registry holds 10 other vessels, whose median build year is 1965. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1965.
Its IMO number, 6517067, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 5×6 + 1×5 + 7×4 + 0×3 + 6×2 = 117 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
