At 23,663 gross tons, MS Skania is the 23,975th 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 3.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 102nd by tonnage — larger than 89% 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.
The Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory, of which MS Skania is the 942nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (940 ships), and the median vessel measures 30,020 GT. Browse every ship flagged The Bahamas.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 13 ferrys flying the The Bahamas flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.
MS Skania 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 325th 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 97 vessels to Schichau Seebeckwerft, with a median tonnage of 16,236 GT, delivered between 1909 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 173.7 m overall, MS Skania is 69.7 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 24.0 m and a draft of 6.4 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9086588 this registry holds 51 other vessels, whose median build year is 1995 and which range from 1993 to 1998. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1995.
Its IMO number, 9086588, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 8×5 + 6×4 + 5×3 + 8×2 = 158 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
