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MAERSK NACALA
239 metres of container ship · 12 years on the water
1st of 5 · 07:05 · 30 June 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:05Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:23Median of 15 archive runs
Daily race record6–8–1Wins – losses – ties · 15 starts
Stare-down record0–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MAERSK NACALA
- MMSI
- 563135700
- IMO
- 9459424
- Call sign
- 9V7268
- Flag
- SG
- Type
- container ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2014 · 12 years old
- Length
- 239 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 38,388
- Deadweight
- 47,068 t
- Capacity
- 3,635 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 91
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
- 07:05 · 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.
None.
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 16.5 kn · 19 May 2026 · 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.