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MSC SYDNEY VI
278 metres of container ship · 27 years on the water
formerly CONTI CANBERRA
2nd of 7 · 08:06 · 6 December 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:06Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:48Median of 3 archive runs
Daily race record0–3Wins – losses · 3 starts
Stare-down record0–3Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC SYDNEY VI
- MMSI
- 636021992
- IMO
- 9200677
- Call sign
- D5SI8
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 1999 · 27 years old
- Length
- 278 m
- Beam
- 40 m
- Gross tonnage
- 66,278
- Deadweight
- 68,824 t
- Capacity
- 6,078 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 73
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
- 08:06 · 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
- 20.3 kn · 11 Mar 2026 · off Key West, FL · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Galveston, TX to Houston, TX · 1 h 26 m · 28.6 kn average · 11 Jan 2026
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.