At 3,725 gross tons, «Grand Republic» is the 48,951st 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 1.6 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 493rd by tonnage — larger than 38% of that group. Their median tonnage is 7,395 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 34,011 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Italy (62 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, with 16 hulls on record.
United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which «Grand Republic» is the 492nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (977 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,706 GT. Browse every ship flagged United States.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 17 ro-ros flying the United States flag, of which 8 are larger by tonnage.
«Grand Republic» was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 875th 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.
The registry attributes 37 vessels to Eastern Shipbuilding Group, with a median tonnage of 1,348 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 93.0 m overall, «Grand Republic» is 32.0 m shorter than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8986145 this registry holds 28 other vessels, whose median build year is 1994 and which range from 1943 to 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2003.
Its IMO number, 8986145, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 8×5 + 6×4 + 1×3 + 4×2 = 185 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
