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LUDWIGSHAFEN EXPRESS

CargoCargo ship, carrying category D hazardous cargoGermany

Position 3 min agoSource: AISStream.ioFree for any use

Identity

Name
LUDWIGSHAFEN EXPRESS
MMSI
218566000
IMO number
Not reported
Call sign
Not reported
Station type
Ship station

Classification & hull

AIS type code
74
Type
Cargo ship, carrying category D hazardous cargo
Category
Cargo
Length overall
Not reported
Beam
Not reported
Draught
Not reported

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
Not reported
ETA
Not reported
Navigational status
Under way using engine
Speed over ground
14.5 kn
Course over ground
174°
True heading
172°

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° 28.415' N
Longitude
113° 45.065' E
Decimal
22.47359, 113.75109
Received
3 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 LUDWIGSHAFEN EXPRESS's last known position, straight-line distance and true bearing — not a route either vessel is following.

VesselTypeDistanceBearing from LUDWIGSHAFEN EXPRESS
YI HANG 698Dredger or underwater operations0.4 nm154° SSE
KAI HANG 128Cargo ship0.4 nm159° SSE
YU SHUN 838Unknown0.5 nm163° SSE
NINGYUANGUANGZHOUCargo ship0.6 nm5° N
ZHONG XIE 803Cargo ship1.0 nm167° SSE
ZHUANGHANG2Cargo ship1.8 nm177° S
ZHOU WEI 6Cargo ship2.2 nm138° SE
XIN QING HAICargo ship2.6 nm347° NNW
HONG TAI 619Cargo ship2.7 nm348° NNW
MARINA SAPPHIRECargo ship2.7 nm347° NNW
HOANH SON STARCargo ship2.7 nm347° NNW
TB TAIYUANCargo ship3.4 nm345° NNW
XING TAI BO 066Dredger or underwater operations3.5 nm164° SSE
PENGFENGJICargo ship4.0 nm171° S
TIAN SHENG HECargo ship, carrying category A hazardous cargo4.3 nm345° NNW

Ranked by great-circle distance from LUDWIGSHAFEN EXPRESS'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”.