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COLOMBO EXPRESS
335 metres of container ship · 21 years on the water
1st of 2 · 07:44 · 14 January 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:44Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:58Median of 3 archive runs
Daily race record1–2Wins – losses · 3 starts
Stare-down record2–2Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- COLOMBO EXPRESS
- MMSI
- 636093167
- IMO
- 9295244
- Call sign
- 5LKU2
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2005 · 21 years old
- Length
- 335 m
- Beam
- 43 m
- Gross tonnage
- 93,750
- Deadweight
- 103,800 t
- Capacity
- 8,749 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
- 07:44 · 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
- 19.7 kn · 11 May 2026 · off Norfolk, VA · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- New York, NY to Los Angeles, CA · 541 h 13 m · 3.9 kn average · 8 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.