MV Taiko

At 66,635 gross tons, MV Taiko is the 6,814th 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 11 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 5th by tonnage — larger than 100% 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.

Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which MV Taiko is the 140th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 22 ro-ros flying the Norway flag, of which none is larger than MV Taiko.

MV Taiko was built in 1984, making it 42 years old. It is one of 1,492 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,366 GT; within it this ship is the 17th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 1,092 vessels to HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 65,131 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 262.3 m overall, MV Taiko is 137.4 m longer than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record, with a beam of 32.3 m and a draft of 9.8 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8204975 this registry holds 41 other vessels, whose median build year is 1983 and which range from 1982 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1984.

Its IMO number, 8204975, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 2×6 + 0×5 + 4×4 + 9×3 + 7×2 = 125 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.