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MAERSK SHEKOU

333 metres of container ship · 17 years on the water

1st of 8 · 06:31 · 2 September 2023+ Follow this boat
Personal best06:31Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:34Median of 14 archive runs
Daily race record5–9Wins – losses · 14 starts
Stare-down record9–7Wins – losses · all opponents
Particulars

Everything on file.

Official name
MAERSK SHEKOU
MMSI
563165200
IMO
9466984
Call sign
9V8228
Flag
SG
Type
container ship (from the liner schedule)
Class
container
Built
2009 · 17 years old
Length
333 m
Beam
43 m
Gross tonnage
94,407
Deadweight
108,622 t
Capacity
8,814 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.

Her best, by register

Two measurements, kept apart.

Window best
none
Archive best
06:31 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
Best race score, window
none
Best race score, archive
+1.9

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.

Records held

What she holds.

None.

Observed extremes

How fast she’s gone.

Observed top speed
18.0 kn · 2 Sept 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.