Photo: Alf van Beem · Public domain
MSC LUANDA VIII
334 metres of container ship · 20 years on the water
formerly TSC LONDON
2nd of 6 in 07:59 · 2 November 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:59Window timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:50Median of 2 window runs
Daily race record0–3Wins – losses · 3 starts
Stare-down record3–3Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC LUANDA VIII
- MMSI
- 636024876
- IMO
- 9301471
- Call sign
- 5LUS5
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2006 · 20 years old
- Length
- 334 m
- Beam
- 44 m
- Gross tonnage
- 89,941
- Deadweight
- 102,756 t
- Capacity
- 8,238 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
- 07:59 · Window timing, since 29 September 2026
- Archive best
- 09:19 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +0.3
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.
- Fastest course time
- 07:59 · Box ships, Inbound, whale season, Window
- Quickest quarter
- 00:47 · Box ships, Inbound, whale season, Window
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 19.9 kn · 26 Jun 2026 · off Norfolk, VA · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Galveston, TX to Houston, TX · 1 h 23 m · 29.8 kn average · 12 Apr 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.