ブルーゼファー

At 26,463 gross tons, ブルーゼファー is the 22,001st 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 4.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 83rd by tonnage — larger than 91% 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 ブルーゼファー is the 291st 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 7 are larger by tonnage.

ブルーゼファー was built in 1990, making it 36 years old. It is one of 1,306 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,025 GT; within it this ship is the 174th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 204 vessels to Tsuneishi Kure Dock, with a median tonnage of 17,431 GT, delivered between 1969 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 186.5 m overall, ブルーゼファー is 82.5 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 8902357 this registry holds 59 other vessels, whose median build year is 1990 and which range from 1988 to 1993. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.