AIS ship type 67: Passenger ship, reserved

What code 67 means

Ships carrying passengers: ferries, ro-pax, cruise ships and smaller passenger vessels. AIS gives all of them the same family, so a harbour ferry and a large cruise ship can both report 60; the dimensions fields, not the type code, tell them apart.

Units digits 5 to 8 are reserved for future use in the qualified families. The standard gives them no meaning, so we report the family and say plainly that the qualifier is undefined rather than guessing.

Reading the two digits

1. Tens digit 6 → the passenger ships family, codes 60–69.
2. Units digit 7 → reserved (no meaning is assigned to it yet).
3. Therefore: Passenger ship, reserved.

Every code in the 60–69 range

What the code is not

The ship-and-cargo type is typed into the transponder by whoever installs or operates it. No authority checks it against the ship’s certificates, and it is broadcast in the static report every six minutes whether or not it is right. It describes what the operator says the vessel is, not what it is doing — that is the job of the navigational status.

For the whole decade structure in one read, see AIS ship type codes explained.