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ZIM EMERALD
272 metres of container ship · 3 years on the water
2nd of 4 · 09:01 · 11 January 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best09:01Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:29Median of 4 archive runs
Daily race record0–4Wins – losses · 4 starts
Stare-down record0–3Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- ZIM EMERALD
- MMSI
- 563291900
- IMO
- 9967976
- Call sign
- 9V6689
- Flag
- SG
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2023 · 3 years old
- Length
- 272 m
- Beam
- 43 m
- Gross tonnage
- 74,693
- Deadweight
- 81,784 t
- Capacity
- 7,000 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
- 09:01 · 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
- 21.0 kn · 17 Jan 2026 · off Cape Hatteras, NC · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- New York, NY to Boston, MA · 40 h 5 m · 4.2 kn average · 20 Jan 2026
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.