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MSC NIOVI VIII
300 metres of container ship · 21 years on the water
3rd of 7 · 08:43 · 4 January 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:57Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:28Median of 21 archive runs
Daily race record3–18Wins – losses · 21 starts
Stare-down record6–19Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC NIOVI VIII
- MMSI
- 636022795
- IMO
- 9290488
- Call sign
- 5LKM6
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2005 · 21 years old
- Length
- 300 m
- Beam
- 43 m
- Gross tonnage
- 83,011
- Deadweight
- 93,570 t
- Capacity
- 7,471 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
- 07:57 · 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
- 17.8 kn · 11 Jan 2026 · off Norfolk, VA · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Galveston, TX to Houston, TX · 1 h 26 m · 28.8 kn average · 22 May 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.