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MAERSK TAURUS

332 metres of container ship · 19 years on the water

10th of 10 · 10:58 · 2 June 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.

Personal best07:25Archive timing · 3.7 km course time

Typical course time08:48Median of 10 archive runs

Daily race record4–6Wins – losses · 10 starts

Stare-down record0–1Wins – losses · all opponents

Particulars

Everything on file.

Official name: MAERSK TAURUS
MMSI: 565762000
IMO: 9334674
Call sign: 9VFV4
Flag: SG
Type: container ship (from the liner schedule)
Class: container
Built: 2007 · 19 years old
Length: 332 m
Beam: 43 m
Gross tonnage: 94,055
Deadweight: 113,478 t
Capacity: 8,112 TEU
AIS ship type: 72

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: 07:25 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
Best race score, window: none
Best race score, archive: +2.1

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: 19.4 kn · 27 May 2026 · off Hilton Head, SC · NOAA archive
Fastest leg: Charleston, SC to New York, NY · 101 h 47 m · 5.4 kn average · 2 Jun 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.

Identity history

Names and numbers.

Current name: MAERSK TAURUS
Former names: none on file
MMSIs on file: 565762000
Hull keyed by: IMO 9334674

A ship keeps her IMO number for life and changes her name and MMSI when she is sold or reflagged, so one hull holds every identity she has carried.

What the window has seen

Last observed.

First seen: 6 April 2023
Last seen: 2 June 2026
Passages observed: 12 (6 in, 6 out)
Port calls: Seen here about 2 times a year · every 3 months, like clockwork
Typical call interval: 96 days (median)
Typical port stay: 22 hours (median)
Latest direction: Outbound

Last observed: Jun 2, 2026 · 5:44 am · heading out to sea (2 June 2026, 05:44). A last observed passage is where she was seen, not where she is.

Our estimate, not a schedule: Around December 2026 — based on how often we've seen her, timing uncertain after the 2026 gap · low confidence, a rough guess.