Massalia

At 27,541 gross tons, Massalia is the 21,474th 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 4.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 12,082nd by tonnage — larger than 76% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

France is the country of registry for 517 vessels in this directory, of which Massalia is the 82nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (313 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,161 GT. Browse every ship flagged France.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 313 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the France flag, of which 36 are larger by tonnage.

Massalia was built in 1992, making it 34 years old. It is one of 1,130 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,228 GT; within it this ship is the 201st 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 46 vessels to Kvaerner Masa-Yards, with a median tonnage of 70,367 GT, delivered between 1990 and 2004. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 161.4 m overall, Massalia is 46.4 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 26.0 m and a draft of 6.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9006253 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 1992 and which range from 1990 to 1997. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1992.

Its IMO number, 9006253, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 0×5 + 6×4 + 2×3 + 5×2 = 103 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.