At 26,024 gross tons, Mega Express is the 22,297th 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 4.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 130th by tonnage — larger than 84% of that group. Their median tonnage is 7,395 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 34,011 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Italy (62 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, with 16 hulls on record.
Italy is the country of registry for 918 vessels in this directory, of which Mega Express is the 231st 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 62 ro-ros flying the Italy flag, of which 32 are larger by tonnage.
Mega Express 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 462nd 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 6 vessels to Cantiere navale fratelli Orlando, with a median tonnage of 11,482 GT, delivered between 1974 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 176.4 m overall, Mega Express is 51.4 m longer than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record, with a beam of 24.8 m and a draft of 6.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9203174 this registry holds 63 other vessels, whose median build year is 1999 and which range from 1994 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2001.
Its IMO number, 9203174, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 0×5 + 3×4 + 1×3 + 7×2 = 104 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
