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ZIM OPAL
272 metres of container ship · 2 years on the water
1st of 4 · 09:10 · 10 May 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:07Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:07Median of 7 archive runs
Daily race record4–2–1Wins – losses – ties · 7 starts
Stare-down record0–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- ZIM OPAL
- MMSI
- 563293300
- IMO
- 9967988
- Call sign
- 9V6896
- Flag
- SG
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2024 · 2 years old
- Length
- 272 m
- Beam
- 43 m
- Gross tonnage
- 74,693
- Deadweight
- 81,770 t
- Capacity
- 7,000 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.
Two measurements, kept apart.
- Window best
- none
- Archive best
- 08:07 · 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
- 21.6 kn · 13 May 2026 · off Cape Hatteras, NC · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Charleston, SC to Savannah, GA · 23 h 59 m · 3.1 kn average · 10 May 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.