Photo: Dr. Karl-Heinz Hochhaus · CC BY 3.0
TOKYO EXPRESS
294 metres of container ship · 26 years on the water
4th of 9 · 08:36 · 24 October 2023+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:36Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:44Median of 2 archive runs
Daily race record0–2Wins – losses · 2 starts
Stare-down record1–2Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- TOKYO EXPRESS
- MMSI
- 636093145
- IMO
- 9193290
- Call sign
- 5LJE6
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2000 · 26 years old
- Length
- 294 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 54,465
- Deadweight
- 67,145 t
- Capacity
- 4,890 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
- 08:36 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +0.9
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
- 14.4 kn · 22 Oct 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.