At 61,396 gross tons, MS Zaandam is the 7,764th 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 the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 217th by tonnage — larger than 57% of that group. Their median tonnage is 43,009 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 143,289 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is The Bahamas (133 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Fincantieri, with 112 hulls on record.
Netherlands is the country of registry for 1,546 vessels in this directory, of which MS Zaandam is the 32nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (839 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,810 GT. Browse every ship flagged Netherlands.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 22 cruise ships flying the Netherlands flag, of which 10 are larger by tonnage.
MS Zaandam was built in 2000, making it 26 years old. It is one of 1,296 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,737 GT; within it this ship is the 154th 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 226 vessels to Fincantieri, with a median tonnage of 54,655 GT, delivered between 1935 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 237.0 m overall, MS Zaandam is 38.9 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 32.3 m and a draft of 8.1 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9156527 this registry holds 52 other vessels, whose median build year is 1998 and which range from 1996 to 2002. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2000.
Its IMO number, 9156527, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 5×5 + 6×4 + 5×3 + 2×2 = 137 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
