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Show-Me Express
MISSOURI EXPRESS
306 metres of container ship · 18 years on the water
7th of 7 · 12:43 · 10 February 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best06:36Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:14Median of 62 archive runs
Daily race record11–49–2Wins – losses – ties · 62 starts
Stare-down record31–30–1Wins – losses – ties · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MISSOURI EXPRESS
- Nickname
- Show-Me Express
- MMSI
- 367781000
- IMO
- 9349552
- Call sign
- WDM2203
- 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
- 85,384 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
- 06:36 · 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.
- Fastest course time
- 06:37 · Box ships, Inbound, open season, Archive
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 18.4 kn · 24 Feb 2026 · off Oakland, 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.