Photo: Raimond Spekking · CC BY-SA 4.0
MSC TOKYO
334 metres of container ship · 20 years on the water
5th of 8 · 09:47 · 10 February 2024+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:28Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:35Median of 10 archive runs
Daily race record3–6–1Wins – losses – ties · 10 starts
Stare-down record9–4Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC TOKYO
- MMSI
- 636020497
- IMO
- 9318046
- Call sign
- A8IE8
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2006 · 20 years old
- Length
- 334 m
- Beam
- 43 m
- Gross tonnage
- 91,649
- Deadweight
- 123,586 t
- Capacity
- 8,533 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
- 07:28 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +2.0
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
- 15.9 kn · 12 Nov 2023 · 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.