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MSC ELA
294 metres of container ship · 22 years on the water
7th of 8 · 09:39 · 13 December 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:56Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:29Median of 14 archive runs
Daily race record2–12Wins – losses · 14 starts
Stare-down record6–9Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC ELA
- MMSI
- 353934000
- IMO
- 9282259
- Call sign
- H3MJ
- Flag
- PA
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2004 · 22 years old
- Length
- 294 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 54,304
- Deadweight
- 72,999 t
- Capacity
- 5,059 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
- 07:56 · 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
- 17.8 kn · 9 Feb 2026 · off Mobile, AL · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Houston, TX to Galveston, TX · 2 h 15 m · 18.3 kn average · 2 Feb 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.