At 9,149 gross tons, Ionian Star is the 37,182nd 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 1.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 295th by tonnage — larger than 67% 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.
Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Ionian Star is the 6,297th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 16 ferrys flying the Panama flag, of which 6 are larger by tonnage.
Ionian Star was built in 1971, making it 55 years old. It is one of 1,927 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,462 GT; within it this ship is the 475th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 75 vessels to Aalborg Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 9,021 GT, delivered between 1935 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 123.4 m overall, Ionian Star is 19.4 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 19.2 m and a draft of 5.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7037806 this registry holds 33 other vessels, whose median build year is 1968 and which range from 1967 to 1971. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1971.
Its IMO number, 7037806, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 0×6 + 3×5 + 7×4 + 8×3 + 0×2 = 116 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
