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MSC TAKORADI VIII
272 metres of container ship · 2 years on the water
2nd of 6 · 07:54 · 6 October 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:54Window timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:25Median of 2 window runs
Daily race record0–2Wins – losses · 2 starts
Stare-down record2–0Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC TAKORADI VIII
- MMSI
- 255915818
- IMO
- 9983683
- Call sign
- CQ2276
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2024 · 2 years old
- Length
- 272 m
- Beam
- 43 m
- Gross tonnage
- 75,448
- Deadweight
- 87,609 t
- Capacity
- 7,900 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 74
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
- 07:54 · Window timing, since 29 September 2026
- Archive best
- none
- Best race score, window
- +1.1
- 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.
- Best race score
- +1.2 · Box ships, Outbound, open season, Window
How fast she’s gone.
Nothing plausible on file yet.
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.