At 49,000 gross tons, MS Megastar is the 10,103rd 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 8.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 46th by tonnage — larger than 94% 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.
Estonia is the country of registry for 81 vessels in this directory, of which MS Megastar is the 3rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (50 ships), and the median vessel measures 916 GT. Browse every ship flagged Estonia.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 4 ro-ros flying the Estonia flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.
MS Megastar was built in 2017, making it 9 years old. It is one of 1,468 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 26,213 GT; within it this ship is the 338th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 55 vessels to Meyer Turku, with a median tonnage of 10,834 GT, delivered between 1951 and 2027. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 212.0 m overall, MS Megastar is 87.0 m longer than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record, with a beam of 30.6 m and a draft of 7.1 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9773064 this registry holds 38 other vessels, whose median build year is 2017 and which range from 2014 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2017.
Its IMO number, 9773064, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 7×5 + 3×4 + 0×3 + 6×2 = 164 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
