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Cruise ship

MSC Sinfonia

IMO 9210153MMSI 356716000Call sign H8XHPanamaBuilt 2002

Operated by MSC Cruises

Photo: Gerd Fahrenhorst · Public domain · file

Largest in this registry

#6,997

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest cruise ship

#209

of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Largest in its fleet

#18

of 21 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage

In brief

About MSC Sinfonia

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MSC Sinfonia is a cruise ship owned and operated by the Italy-based MSC Cruises. She was built in 2002 by Chantiers de l'Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire, France for the now-defunct Festival Cruises as MS European Stars. She was the last ship built for Festival Cruises.

Quoted from MSC Sinfonia on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.

Identification

IMO number

In context

How MSC Sinfonia compares

Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

At 65,542 gross tons, MSC Sinfonia is the 6,997th 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 11 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 209th by tonnage — larger than 58% 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.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which MSC Sinfonia is the 1,003rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 43 cruise ships flying the Panama flag, of which 25 are larger by tonnage.

MSC Sinfonia was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 136th 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 123 vessels to Chantiers de l'Atlantique, with a median tonnage of 63,786 GT, delivered between 1912 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 251.3 m overall, MSC Sinfonia is 53.1 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 28.8 m and a draft of 6.8 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9210153 this registry holds 48 other vessels, whose median build year is 2000 and which range from 1999 to 2003. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.

Its IMO number, 9210153, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 1×5 + 0×4 + 1×3 + 5×2 = 93 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.