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COLOMBO

CargoCargo ship, no additional informationLiberia

Position 3 h agoSource: AISStream.ioFree for any use

Identity

Name
COLOMBO
MMSI
636013289
IMO number
9256212
Call sign
A8DZ2
Station type
Ship station

Classification & hull

AIS type code
79
Type
Cargo ship, no additional information
Category
Cargo
Length overall
221 m
Beam
32 m
Draught
9.6 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
CNSHA
ETA
Not reported
Navigational status
Under way using engine
Speed over ground
16.0 kn
Course over ground
92°
True heading
90°

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
22° 6.949' N
Longitude
114° 18.468' E
Decimal
22.11582, 114.30780
Received
3 h 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 COLOMBO's last known position, straight-line distance and true bearing — not a route either vessel is following.

VesselTypeDistanceBearing from COLOMBO
OCEAN CENTURYCargo ship0.7 nm246° WSW
OOCL ZHOUSHANCargo ship, carrying category D hazardous cargo0.9 nm96° E
MMSI 352004605Unknown1.4 nm261° W
HAI YUN XING SHENGUnknown1.6 nm173° S
MMSI 413521230Unknown2.3 nm293° WNW
EN HUI YICargo ship2.5 nm269° W
AN TONG 27Tanker2.9 nm268° W
MMSI 413447880Unknown3.3 nm287° WNW
AN JI 22Unknown3.4 nm290° WNW
KOBE CCargo ship3.8 nm98° E
TOCONAO MAERSKCargo ship, carrying category C hazardous cargo3.8 nm151° SSE
MMSI 413284120Unknown3.8 nm232° SW
MARIA 593Cargo ship4.0 nm81° E
PACIFIC HORSECargo ship4.2 nm80° E
JIN FENG HONGCargo ship4.4 nm271° W

Ranked by great-circle distance from COLOMBO'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”.