Photo: Walter Rademacher · CC BY-SA 2.5
MSC QINGDAO
323 metres of container ship · 22 years on the water
1st of 2 · 07:59 · 8 January 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:54Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:00Median of 12 archive runs
Daily race record1–11Wins – losses · 12 starts
Stare-down record7–5Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC QINGDAO
- MMSI
- 636019331
- IMO
- 9256470
- Call sign
- D5UA5
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2004 · 22 years old
- Length
- 323 m
- Beam
- 43 m
- Gross tonnage
- 89,097
- Deadweight
- 105,162 t
- Capacity
- 8,667 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 74
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
- 07:54 · 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
- 20.7 kn · 12 Jan 2026 · off Baltimore, MD · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Savannah, GA to Charleston, SC · 9 h 8 m · 8.1 kn average · 7 Jan 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.