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NELE MAERSK
198 metres of container ship · 26 years on the water
3rd of 3 · 09:56 · 16 January 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:10Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:06Median of 18 archive runs
Daily race record6–12Wins – losses · 18 starts
Stare-down record6–4Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- NELE MAERSK
- MMSI
- 477648100
- IMO
- 9192442
- Call sign
- VRTU3
- Flag
- HK
- Type
- container ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2000 · 26 years old
- Length
- 198 m
- Beam
- 30 m
- Gross tonnage
- 27,733
- Deadweight
- 30,194 t
- Capacity
- 2,240 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
- 07:10 · 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
- 16.4 kn · 14 Nov 2024 · 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.