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DORTMUND EXPRESS
366 metres of container ship · 14 years on the water
formerly HAMBURG EXPRESS
1st of 5 · 08:38 · 14 June 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:40Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:22Median of 25 archive runs
Daily race record4–21Wins – losses · 25 starts
Stare-down record1–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- DORTMUND EXPRESS
- MMSI
- 636093350
- IMO
- 9461051
- Call sign
- 5LUP8
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2012 · 14 years old
- Length
- 366 m
- Beam
- 48 m
- Gross tonnage
- 143,262
- Deadweight
- 142,092 t
- Capacity
- 13,759 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
- 07:40 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.1
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
- 18.9 kn · 10 Jun 2026 · off Norfolk, VA · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Baltimore, MD to Charleston, SC · 66 h 47 m · 6.3 kn average · 24 Feb 2026 · to the hour
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.