At 20,295 gross tons, MV China Star is the 26,500th 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 3.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 331st by tonnage — larger than 34% 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.
The Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory, of which MV China Star is the 1,028th 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 133 cruise ships flying the The Bahamas flag, of which 93 are larger by tonnage.
MV China Star was built in 1992, making it 34 years old. It is one of 1,130 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,228 GT; within it this ship is the 238th 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 11 vessels to Finnyards, with a median tonnage of 19,638 GT, delivered between 1992 and 1997. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 131.2 m overall, MV China Star is 66.9 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 33.0 m and a draft of 8.4 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9008407 this registry holds 72 other vessels, whose median build year is 1991 and which range from 1989 to 1993. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1992.
Its IMO number, 9008407, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 0×5 + 8×4 + 4×3 + 0×2 = 107 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
