Grande Argentina

At 56,660 gross tons, Grande Argentina is the 8,703rd 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 9.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 22nd by tonnage — larger than 97% 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.

Gibraltar is the country of registry for 202 vessels in this directory, of which Grande Argentina is the 9th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (109 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,721 GT. Browse every ship flagged Gibraltar.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2 ro-ros flying the Gibraltar flag, of which none is larger than Grande Argentina.

Grande Argentina was built in 2001, making it 25 years old. It is one of 1,268 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 14,062 GT; within it this ship is the 146th 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 214.0 m overall, Grande Argentina is 89.0 m longer than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record, with a beam of 32.2 m and a draft of 9.4 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9198135 this registry holds 81 other vessels, whose median build year is 2000 and which range from 1998 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2001.

Its IMO number, 9198135, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 9×5 + 8×4 + 1×3 + 3×2 = 155 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.