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BOHAI STAR

CargoCargo ship, carrying category A hazardous cargoHong Kong

Position 11 min agoSource: AISStream.ioFree for any use

Identity

Name
BOHAI STAR
MMSI
477928900
IMO number
9224362
Call sign
VRVT5
Station type
Ship station

Classification & hull

AIS type code
71
Type
Cargo ship, carrying category A hazardous cargo
Category
Cargo
Length overall
128 m
Beam
20 m
Draught
7.0 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
CN FOC
ETA
Not reported
Navigational status
At anchor
Speed over ground
0.0 kn
Course over ground
224°
True heading
37°

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
35° 26.761' N
Longitude
139° 42.784' E
Decimal
35.44602, 139.71307
Received
11 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 BOHAI STAR's last known position, straight-line distance and true bearing — not a route either vessel is following.

VesselTypeDistanceBearing from BOHAI STAR
HENG YUCargo ship, carrying category A hazardous cargo0.3 nm243° WSW
GIGA TRANSCargo ship0.3 nm169° S
NITTOU MARUUnknown0.3 nm316° NW
NAIKAI MARU NO.15Cargo ship0.4 nm300° WNW
PACIFIC EAGLECargo ship0.5 nm131° SE
CHITOSETug0.7 nm280° W
KAIYO MARUTug1.0 nm325° NW
KAKUYOU MARUTanker1.2 nm57° ENE
EISHIN MARUUnknown1.2 nm134° SE
MILD ROSECargo ship, carrying category A hazardous cargo1.3 nm304° NW
SAGA ODYSSEYCargo ship1.4 nm319° NW
MIWACargo ship1.4 nm260° W
HUA XIANG 936Cargo ship, carrying category A hazardous cargo1.4 nm257° WSW
TAKAO MARUTug1.5 nm194° SSW
AIKOUMARUUnknown1.5 nm324° NW

Ranked by great-circle distance from BOHAI STAR'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”.