At 598 gross tons, Marco Polo 1 is the 71,844th 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 10 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 740th by tonnage — larger than 7% 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.
Italy is the country of registry for 918 vessels in this directory, of which Marco Polo 1 is the 620th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (488 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,975 GT. Browse every ship flagged Italy.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 62 ro-ros flying the Italy flag, of which 50 are larger by tonnage.
Marco Polo 1 was built in 1983, making it 43 years old. It is one of 1,578 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,112 GT; within it this ship is the 1,249th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 18 vessels to Cantiere Navale de Poli S.p.A., with a median tonnage of 5,440 GT, delivered between 1972 and 2008. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 67.0 m overall, Marco Polo 1 is 58.0 m shorter than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8332588 this registry holds 21 other vessels, whose median build year is 1979 and which range from 1929 to 1985. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1983.
Its IMO number, 8332588, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 3×6 + 3×5 + 2×4 + 5×3 + 8×2 = 128 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
