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MAERSK STEPNICA
334 metres of container ship · 18 years on the water
1st of 5 · 07:28 · 5 October 2024+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:28Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time07:57Median of 4 archive runs
Daily race record2–2Wins – losses · 4 starts
Stare-down record2–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MAERSK STEPNICA
- MMSI
- 477891700
- IMO
- 9352004
- Call sign
- VRVM4
- Flag
- HK
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2008 · 18 years old
- Length
- 334 m
- Beam
- 43 m
- Gross tonnage
- 92,293
- Deadweight
- 107,978 t
- Capacity
- 9,662 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
- 07:28 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.2
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
- 23.1 kn · 28 Jan 2026 · off Vancouver, BC · 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.