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BIRJO III

TankerTankerBelgium

Position 47 min agoSource: AISStream.ioFree for any use

Identity

Name
BIRJO III
MMSI
205587390
IMO number
Not reported
Call sign
OT5873
Station type
Ship station

Classification & hull

AIS type code
80
Type
Tanker
Category
Tanker
Length overall
135 m
Beam
12 m
Draught
1.7 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
VLISSINGEN VAN CITTE
ETA
Not reported
Navigational status
Under way using engine
Speed over ground
3.4 kn
Course over ground
173°
True heading
173°

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° 27.230' N
Longitude
4° 13.730' E
Decimal
51.45383, 4.22883
Received
47 min 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 BIRJO III's last known position, straight-line distance and true bearing — not a route either vessel is following.

VesselTypeDistanceBearing from BIRJO III
MABELTanker0.2 nm339° NNW
MI-VIDACargo ship, no additional information0.3 nm173° S
ST. BARTHTanker, no additional information0.3 nm164° SSE
DESEJOCargo ship, no additional information0.4 nm167° SSE
RP AMSTERDAMTanker, no additional information0.4 nm166° SSE
BENTAYGATanker0.5 nm173° S
SPECHTTanker0.9 nm176° S
POUWEL STanker0.9 nm167° SSE
BANCOTanker1.0 nm167° SSE
FORTUNATanker, no additional information1.0 nm176° S
WEST VIRGINIATanker, no additional information1.1 nm175° S
MISSIONTanker, no additional information1.1 nm168° SSE
M A N O ECargo ship, no additional information1.2 nm175° S
YE-199 HK-PRINCESAUnknown1.8 nm287° WNW
SAFFIERCargo ship, no additional information1.9 nm173° S

Ranked by great-circle distance from BIRJO III'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”.