At 29,746 gross tons, M/S Visby is the 19,811th 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 5.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 63rd by tonnage — larger than 93% 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.
Sweden is the country of registry for 370 vessels in this directory, of which M/S Visby is the 33rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (195 ships), and the median vessel measures 972 GT. Browse every ship flagged Sweden.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 48 ferrys flying the Sweden flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.
M/S Visby was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 406th 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.
The registry attributes 305 vessels to CSSC Offshore & Marine Engineering Company, with a median tonnage of 28,891 GT, delivered between 1974 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 196.0 m overall, M/S Visby is 92.0 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 25.6 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9223784 this registry holds 68 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 1999 to 2003. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2003.
Its IMO number, 9223784, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 2×5 + 3×4 + 7×3 + 8×2 = 134 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
