At 24,688 gross tons, Stena Forecaster is the 23,261st 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 4.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 140th by tonnage — larger than 82% 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.
Denmark is the country of registry for 849 vessels in this directory, of which Stena Forecaster is the 223rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (495 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,678 GT. Browse every ship flagged Denmark.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 19 ro-ros flying the Denmark flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.
Stena Forecaster was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 519th 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 274 vessels to Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company, with a median tonnage of 41,482 GT, delivered between 1974 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 179.2 m overall, Stena Forecaster is 54.2 m longer than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record, with a beam of 25.6 m and a draft of 7.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9214678 this registry holds 65 other vessels, whose median build year is 2000 and which range from 1999 to 2003. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2003.
Its IMO number, 9214678, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 1×5 + 4×4 + 6×3 + 7×2 = 128 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
