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ESSEN EXPRESS
366 metres of container ship · 13 years on the water
2nd of 3 · 08:35 · 2 October 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:57Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:58Median of 24 archive runs
Daily race record4–20Wins – losses · 24 starts
Stare-down record15–18Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- ESSEN EXPRESS
- MMSI
- 636093366
- IMO
- 9501370
- Call sign
- 5LVY4
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2013 · 13 years old
- Length
- 366 m
- Beam
- 48 m
- Gross tonnage
- 143,262
- Deadweight
- 142,022 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
- 07:57 · 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
- 14.6 kn · 31 Mar 2022 · 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.