At 137,936 gross tons, MSC Splendida is the 1,796th 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 23 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 62nd by tonnage — larger than 88% 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 Splendida is the 279th 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 2 are larger by tonnage.
MSC Splendida was built in 2009, making it 17 years old. It is one of 2,834 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,673 GT; within it this ship is the 70th 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 333.0 m overall, MSC Splendida is 134.9 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 37.9 m and a draft of 8.7 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9359806 this registry holds 66 other vessels, whose median build year is 2007 and which range from 2005 to 2010. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2009.
Its IMO number, 9359806, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 5×5 + 9×4 + 8×3 + 0×2 = 166 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
