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KUALA LUMPUR EXPRESS
336 metres of container ship · 18 years on the water
2nd of 5 · 08:16 · 7 January 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:16Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time10:06Median of 3 archive runs
Daily race record0–3Wins – losses · 3 starts
Stare-down record1–3Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- KUALA LUMPUR EXPRESS
- MMSI
- 218284000
- IMO
- 9343730
- Call sign
- DFNB2
- Flag
- DE
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2008 · 18 years old
- Length
- 336 m
- Beam
- 43 m
- Gross tonnage
- 93,811
- Deadweight
- 103,538 t
- Capacity
- 8,749 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 71
Particulars come from her AIS broadcast and the sourced facts ledger. A type decided from her name or her operator is a guess and is labelled as one.
Two measurements, kept apart.
- Window best
- none
- Archive best
- 08:16 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- none
The window receiver times a gate to about a second; the national archive carries one fix a minute, interpolated to about two. Her two bests are two different measurements and are never ranked against each other.
What she holds.
None.
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 19.9 kn · 15 Jun 2026 · off Port Hueneme, CA · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Savannah, GA to New York, NY · 93 h 8 m · 6.6 kn average · 2 Apr 2026 · to the hour
From our own position archives, with reasonableness checks: a plausible top speed over a corroborated window, a direct leg between two named places. A bound carries no second fix to confirm it and is labelled as one.