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KIEL EXPRESS
321 metres of container ship · 24 years on the water
3rd of 5 · 10:55 · 10 October 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:35Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:51Median of 16 archive runs
Daily race record3–15Wins – losses · 18 starts
Stare-down record1–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- KIEL EXPRESS
- MMSI
- 636093170
- IMO
- 9229855
- Call sign
- 5LKX4
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2002 · 24 years old
- Length
- 321 m
- Beam
- 42 m
- Gross tonnage
- 88,493
- Deadweight
- 122,639 t
- Capacity
- 7,506 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
- none
- Archive best
- 07:35 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.4
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
- 22.2 kn · 5 Mar 2026 · off Nantucket, MA · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Charleston, SC to Savannah, GA · 8 h 20 m · 8.8 kn average · 26 Jan 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.