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MSC KOREA
242 metres of container ship · 30 years on the water
1st of 5 · 06:49 · 20 December 2023+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best06:49Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:01Median of 21 archive runs
Daily race record5–16Wins – losses · 21 starts
Stare-down record9–8Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC KOREA
- MMSI
- 371243000
- IMO
- 9123154
- Call sign
- 3EBW3
- Flag
- PA
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 1996 · 30 years old
- Length
- 242 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 37,518
- Deadweight
- 52,180 t
- Capacity
- 3,398 TEU
- 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
- 06:49 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.5
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
- 17.2 kn · 20 Dec 2023 · off Charleston, SC · national archive 2021-25
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.