Photo: Wolfgang Fricke · CC BY 3.0
ZIM NORFOLK
300 metres of container ship · 11 years on the water
4th of 4 · 10:57 · 10 October 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:21Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:19Median of 7 archive runs
Daily race record1–5–1Wins – losses – ties · 7 starts
Stare-down record3–4Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- ZIM NORFOLK
- MMSI
- 636016983
- IMO
- 9710220
- Call sign
- D5IS4
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2015 · 11 years old
- Length
- 300 m
- Beam
- 48 m
- Gross tonnage
- 94,416
- Deadweight
- 111,029 t
- Capacity
- 9,115 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
- 08:21 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +0.8
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
- 14.9 kn · 11 Oct 2025 · 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.