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BELGICA

OtherOther typeBelgium

Position 32s agoSource: AISStream.ioFree for any use

Identity

Name
BELGICA
MMSI
205130000
IMO number
9871294
Call sign
ORCO
Station type
Ship station

Classification & hull

AIS type code
90
Type
Other type
Category
Other
Length overall
72 m
Beam
17 m
Draught
4.8 m

Length is the sum of the two AIS reference-point dimensions fore and aft; beam is the sum of the port and starboard pair. Both come from the vessel's own static report.

Voyage & motion

Destination
BEZEE
ETA
Not reported
Navigational status
Under way using engine
Speed over ground
0.0 kn
Course over ground
2°
True heading
217°

Destination, ETA and navigational status are typed in on the bridge, not measured. Speed, course and heading come from the vessel's instruments.

Last known position

Latitude
51° 20.160' N
Longitude
3° 11.917' E
Decimal
51.33600, 3.19862
Received
32s ago
Reported by ship
Not reported
Source feed
AISStream.io

This is the latest position our store holds, not a live fix. The vessel has been free to move for the whole of the age shown above.

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Only one position is held for this vessel, so no track can be drawn.

Nearby

Other vessels near this one

Everything else our snapshot holds within 25 nm of BELGICA's last known position, straight-line distance and true bearing — not a route either vessel is following.

VesselTypeDistanceBearing from BELGICA
FUGAUnknown0.2 nm155° SSE
WHITE ROSEUnknown0.2 nm154° SSE
J. BREYDEL SURVEYOther type0.2 nm160° SSE
ETHERATanker, no additional information0.2 nm328° NNW
L'OLIVIERUnknown0.2 nm138° SE
LES COPAINSUnknown0.2 nm152° SSE
BLUEUnknown0.2 nm153° SSE
NORTHSTARPleasure craft0.2 nm154° SSE
ABIGAILUnknown0.2 nm153° SSE
INSPECTOR 125 MHU1Unknown0.2 nm45° NE
DN97Port tender0.3 nm166° SSE
NOROITUnknown0.3 nm111° ESE
GEOSURVEYOR VIUnknown0.3 nm117° ESE
VB KOALATug0.3 nm190° S
ASKOY IIUnknown0.3 nm101° E

Ranked by great-circle distance from BELGICA's last known fix, both taken from the same snapshot moment. Neither vessel has necessarily stayed put since — see the age shown above for how stale each position may be. Also available as JSON: /api/nearby.

What this data means

Reading this record

Everything above comes from two different AIS transmissions. Position, speed, course and heading arrive in message 1, 2 or 3, broadcast every few seconds while under way — that is why the position age above can be very small. Name, MMSI, IMO number, call sign, type and dimensions arrive in a separate static report — message 5 for a Class A transponder, message 24 for Class B — sent only around once every six minutes. A vessel can therefore show a fresh position with an old or missing static report, or the reverse.

Nothing here is estimated, interpolated, or carried over from a previous ship at the same MMSI. Where the vessel did not transmit a field, or transmitted a value the standard defines as "not available", we print “Not reported” rather than guess.

Data for this page comes from AISStream.io under Free for any use. Field meanings are explained in the reference guides. Nothing on this page is derived, estimated or filled in — where a field is empty, we print “Not reported”.