Photo: Alf van Beem · CC0
MAERSK IDAHO
293 metres of container ship · 27 years on the water
1st of 6 · 06:29 · 2 February 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best06:15Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:11Median of 36 archive runs
Daily race record7–29Wins – losses · 36 starts
Stare-down record14–4–2Wins – losses – ties · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MAERSK IDAHO
- MMSI
- 563146500
- IMO
- 9193264
- Call sign
- 9V7730
- Flag
- SG
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 1999 · 27 years old
- Length
- 293 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 50,698
- Deadweight
- 61,986 t
- Capacity
- 4,658 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 74
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
- 06:15 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +2.2
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.
- Best race score
- +2.2 · Box ships, Inbound, open season, Archive
- Fastest course time
- 06:29 · Box ships, Inbound, whale season, Archive
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 18.6 kn · 19 Mar 2026 · off Port Everglades, FL · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Savannah, GA to Port Everglades, FL · 35 h 26 m · 10.3 kn average · 17 Mar 2026 · to the hour
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.