Kavaratti

At 8,763 gross tons, Kavaratti is the 37,740th 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 1.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 617 passenger vessels held here, it ranks 54th by tonnage — larger than 89% of that group. Their median tonnage is 909 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,718 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Egypt (65 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Meyer Werft, with 16 hulls on record.

India is the country of registry for 968 vessels in this directory, of which Kavaratti is the 386th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (514 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,306 GT. Browse every ship flagged India.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 16 passenger vessels flying the India flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Kavaratti was built in 2008, making it 18 years old. It is one of 2,764 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,971 GT; within it this ship is the 1,359th 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 12 vessels to Hindustan Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 1,247 GT, delivered between 1967 and 2010. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 118.0 m overall, Kavaratti is 57.0 m longer than the 61.0 m median for passenger vessels on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9238260 this registry holds 73 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 2000 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.