M/S Baltic Excellent

At 8,407 gross tons, M/S Baltic Excellent is the 38,301st 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 1.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 378th by tonnage — larger than 53% 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.

Malta is the country of registry for 2,640 vessels in this directory, of which M/S Baltic Excellent is the 1,877th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,614 ships), and the median vessel measures 23,204 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malta.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 23 ro-ros flying the Malta flag, of which 18 are larger by tonnage.

M/S Baltic Excellent was built in 1995, making it 31 years old. It is one of 1,092 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,255 GT; within it this ship is the 503rd 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 22 vessels to Kraljevica Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 3,193 GT, delivered between 1971 and 2013. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 125.3 m overall, M/S Baltic Excellent is within a metre of the 125.0 m median length for ro-ros on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9007867 this registry holds 61 other vessels, whose median build year is 1992 and which range from 1989 to 1996. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1995.

Its IMO number, 9007867, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 0×5 + 7×4 + 8×3 + 6×2 = 127 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.