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LIAN SONG HU

TankerTankerChina

Position 8 min agoSource: AISStream.ioFree for any use

Identity

Name
LIAN SONG HU
MMSI
414326000
IMO number
9783368
Call sign
BOFS
Flag state
China (MID 414)
Station type
Ship station

Classification & hull

AIS type code
80
Type
Tanker
Category
Tanker
Length overall
220 m
Beam
36 m
Draught
13.4 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
NAWVB
ETA
Not reported
Navigational status
Under way using engine
Speed over ground
10.3 kn
Course over ground
245°
True heading
244°

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° 8.040' S
Longitude
20° 16.822' E
Decimal
-35.13400, 20.28036
Received
8 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 LIAN SONG HU's last known position, straight-line distance and true bearing — not a route either vessel is following.

VesselTypeDistanceBearing from LIAN SONG HU
NORSE GROWTHCargo ship3.3 nm226° SW
GNG CONCORD2Cargo ship6.2 nm352° N
STAR SAPPHIRECargo ship9.0 nm345° NNW
WINNING BROTHERCargo ship14.3 nm29° NNE
HAN JIANG KOUCargo ship15.0 nm304° NW
STAR AMBERCargo ship15.4 nm308° NW
DURBAN HIGHWAYCargo ship18.4 nm288° WNW
CASTELLANICargo ship, no additional information19.2 nm99° E
TROUVAILLETanker19.3 nm259° W
HE CHUANGCargo ship19.9 nm55° NE
SPAR ARIESCargo ship20.0 nm262° W
NS HAIRUNCargo ship21.3 nm299° WNW
ITHAKI WARRIORTanker21.3 nm125° SE
SDM QUANZHOUCargo ship22.7 nm59° ENE
TIGER LILYCargo ship24.9 nm63° ENE

Ranked by great-circle distance from LIAN SONG HU'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”.