At 10,325 gross tons, MS Marko Polo is the 35,323rd 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 1.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 276th by tonnage — larger than 69% 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.
Croatia is the country of registry for 182 vessels in this directory, of which MS Marko Polo is the 35th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (107 ships), and the median vessel measures 669 GT. Browse every ship flagged Croatia.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 27 ferrys flying the Croatia flag, of which none is larger than MS Marko Polo.
MS Marko Polo was built in 1973, making it 53 years old. It is one of 2,097 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,435 GT; within it this ship is the 488th 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 36 vessels to Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre, with a median tonnage of 8,522 GT, delivered between 1966 and 2002. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 126.0 m overall, MS Marko Polo is 22.0 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 20.0 m and a draft of 5.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7230599 this registry holds 48 other vessels, whose median build year is 1972 and which range from 1942 to 1974. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1973.
Its IMO number, 7230599, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 2×6 + 3×5 + 0×4 + 5×3 + 9×2 = 109 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
