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MSC EVEREST
334 metres of container ship · 22 years on the water
formerly MSC EVEREST VIII
4th of 5 · 09:28 · 17 April 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best06:34Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:08Median of 28 archive runs
Daily race record6–21–1Wins – losses – ties · 28 starts
Stare-down record18–11Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC EVEREST
- MMSI
- 636021393
- IMO
- 9286231
- Call sign
- D5VF6
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2004 · 22 years old
- Length
- 334 m
- Beam
- 43 m
- Gross tonnage
- 90,745
- Deadweight
- 113,914 t
- Capacity
- 8,238 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
- 06:34 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +2.3
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.
- Best race score
- +2.3 · Box ships, Outbound, open season, Archive
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 17.9 kn · 5 Jun 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.