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Largest in this registry
#18,277
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#10,198
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#22
of 27 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Zeus Palace is a mixed passenger-cargo ship belonging to the Italian company Grimaldi Lines. Built between 2000 and 2001 by the South Korean shipyard Samsung Heavy Industries in Geoje for the Greek company Minoan Lines under the name Prometheus (Προμηθέας , Promitheas), it entered service in April 2001 between Greece and Italy. Sold in October 2003 to the shipping company Caronte & Tourist, which operated it between mainland Italy and Sicily, it was then sold again to the Italian shipping company Grimaldi. It was assigned to international routes between Italy and Spain under the name Eurostar Barcelona. Chartered from 2008 by its original company, Minoan Lines, now a subsidiary of the Grimaldi Group, it returned to service between Italy and Greece. Renamed Zeus Palace in 2009, it returned to Grimaldi's routes before being chartered by Grandi Navi Veloci, which operated it between mainland Italy and Sicily from 2010 to 2012. Back in the Grimaldi Lines fleet at the end of 2012, it was assigned between Italy, Spain and Morocco and then between the mainland, Sicily and Tunisia in 2013. It currently sails on routes to Sardinia or Sicily depending on the period.
Vessel particulars
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
Construction
Measurements
In context
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 31,730 gross tons, Zeus Palace is the 18,277th 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 5.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 10,198th by tonnage — larger than 79% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.
Italy is the country of registry for 918 vessels in this directory, of which Zeus Palace is the 196th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (488 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,975 GT. Browse every ship flagged Italy.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 488 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Italy flag, of which 75 are larger by tonnage.
Zeus Palace was built in 2001, making it 25 years old. It is one of 1,268 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 14,062 GT; within it this ship is the 328th 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 826 vessels to Samsung Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 75,201 GT, delivered between 1980 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 212.0 m overall, Zeus Palace is 97.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 25.0 m and a draft of 6.6 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9208071 this registry holds 63 other vessels, whose median build year is 2000 and which range from 1999 to 2002. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2001.
Its IMO number, 9208071, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 0×5 + 8×4 + 0×3 + 7×2 = 121 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Feng Chang | 1972 | 31,742 |
| Good Light | 1979 | 31,734 |
| Icl Vikraman | 1979 | 31,734 |
| Zeus Palace (this ship) | 2001 | 31,730 |
| Ogc America | 1972 | 31,717 |
| Sky River | 1984 | 31,714 |
| Hawk |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
DHT Eagle
2002 · 160,904 GT · Marshall Islands
British Purpose
2000 · 160,216 GT · Marshall Islands
Galilean 7
2000 · 160,216 GT · Marshall Islands
Stribog
2000 · 160,216 GT · Panama
Veter
2002 · 160,100 GT · Cameroon
Centuries
2001 · 160,084 GT · Panama
Maran Regulus
2000 · 160,036 GT · Greece

Abqaiq
2002 · 159,990 GT · The Bahamas
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Zeus Palace on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Gianni Careddu, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
| 1979 |
| 31,709 |