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MOMBASA EXPRESS
259 metres of container ship · 13 years on the water
1st of 8 · 07:35 · 1 April 2024+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:15Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:12Median of 8 archive runs
Daily race record2–6Wins – losses · 8 starts
Stare-down record6–5Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MOMBASA EXPRESS
- MMSI
- 636092500
- IMO
- 9495777
- Call sign
- D5EJ9
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2013 · 13 years old
- Length
- 259 m
- Beam
- 37 m
- Gross tonnage
- 48,799
- Deadweight
- 58,014 t
- Capacity
- 4,620 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
- 07:15 · 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
- 15.4 kn · 20 Jan 2024 · 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.