IMO 9871268

At 2,755 gross tons, IMO 9871268 is the 53,476th 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 2.2 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 512th by tonnage — larger than 42% 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.

Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which IMO 9871268 is the 1,364th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 188 ferrys flying the Norway flag, of which 56 are larger by tonnage.

IMO 9871268 was built in 2022, making it 4 years old. It is one of 158 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,795 GT; within it this ship is the 86th largest. Across the whole of the 2020s the registry holds 1,769 vessels, median 29,777 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 12 vessels to Seatrium Limited, with a median tonnage of 29,631 GT, delivered between 1997 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 78.2 m overall, IMO 9871268 is 25.8 m shorter than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 16.4 m and a draft of 3.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9871268 this registry holds 28 other vessels, whose median build year is 2020 and which range from 2018 to 2023. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2022.

Its IMO number, 9871268, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 8×6 + 7×5 + 1×4 + 2×3 + 6×2 = 168 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.