Photo: Wolfgang Fricke · CC BY 3.0
POTOMAC EXPRESS
306 metres of container ship · 18 years on the water
1st of 2 · 07:07 · 16 January 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best06:54Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:30Median of 58 archive runs
Daily race record12–45–1Wins – losses – ties · 58 starts
Stare-down record35–35–2Wins – losses – ties · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- POTOMAC EXPRESS
- MMSI
- 366418000
- IMO
- 9349526
- Call sign
- WDM2204
- Flag
- US
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2008 · 18 years old
- Length
- 306 m
- Beam
- 40 m
- Gross tonnage
- 75,579
- Deadweight
- 85,517 t
- Capacity
- 6,921 TEU
- Operator
- Marine Transport Management, Inc.
- AIS ship type
- 70
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
- 06:54 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.7
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
- 22.3 kn · 8 Jun 2026 · off Port Hueneme, CA · NOAA archive
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.