Largest in this registry
#12,440
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest ferry
#17
of 882 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 3 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
About MS Skåne
MS Skane (Swedish: Skåne) is a Swedish passenger ferry in operation between Trelleborg in Scania, Sweden and Rostock in Mecklenburg, Germany. The world's largest multi-purpose ro-ro/train ferry, it is owned by the Stena Line, and operated by Scandlines. The ship was built in 1997-98 by Astilleros Españoles of Spain. It is named for the southern Swedish province of Skåne, called "Scania" in English.
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
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
- IMO number
- 9133915
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 265463000
- Call sign
- SIEB
- Flag state
- Sweden
- Port of registry
- Trelleborg
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Ferry
- Builder
- Navantia
- Yard number
- 77
- Launched
- —
- Year built
- 1998
- Designed to carry
- —
- Owner
- Stena Line
- Operator on record
- Scandlines
Measurements
- Gross tonnage
- 42,800
- Net tonnage
- —
- Displacement
- —
- Length overall
- 199.0 m
- Beam
- 29.6 m
- Draft
- 7.0 m
- Service speed
- 21.0 kn
- Passenger capacity
- 600
- Deadweight
- 7,920 t
In context
How MS Skåne compares
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 42,800 gross tons, MS Skåne is the 12,440th 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 7.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 17th by tonnage — larger than 98% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,908 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 25,454 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Japan (241 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with 34 hulls on record.
Sweden is the country of registry for 370 vessels in this directory, of which MS Skåne is the 25th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (195 ships), and the median vessel measures 972 GT. Browse every ship flagged Sweden.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 48 ferrys flying the Sweden flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.
MS Skåne was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 171st 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 12 vessels to Navantia, with a median tonnage of 22,076 GT, delivered between 1983 and 2017. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 199.0 m overall, MS Skåne is 95.0 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 29.6 m and a draft of 7.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9133915 this registry holds 59 other vessels, whose median build year is 1996 and which range from 1995 to 1998. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.
Its IMO number, 9133915, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 3×5 + 3×4 + 9×3 + 1×2 = 125 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among ferrys
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Finnmaid | 2006 | 45,923 |
| Rhapsody | 1996 | 44,307 |
| MS Stena Adventurer | 2003 | 43,532 |
| MS Skåne (this ship) | 1998 | 42,800 |
| Côte d'Opale | 2021 | 40,617 |
| MS Stena Embla | 2020 | 40,500 |
| Excelsior | 1999 | 40,193 |
Record
Notable events
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
- 1997ship launching
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Navantia
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.
Same fleet
Other ships operated by Scandlines
Provenance