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MSC VANESSA

CargoCargo ship, carrying category B hazardous cargoLiberia

Position 1 h agoSource: AISStream.ioFree for any use

Identity

Name
MSC VANESSA
MMSI
636027011
IMO number
9251688
Call sign
D5EF5
Station type
Ship station

Classification & hull

AIS type code
72
Type
Cargo ship, carrying category B hazardous cargo
Category
Cargo
Length overall
300 m
Beam
40 m
Draught
9.9 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
VNVUT
ETA
Not reported
Navigational status
Under way using engine
Speed over ground
12.0 kn
Course over ground
76°
True heading
75°

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
1° 13.388' N
Longitude
103° 56.187' E
Decimal
1.22313, 103.93645
Received
1 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 MSC VANESSA's last known position, straight-line distance and true bearing — not a route either vessel is following.

VesselTypeDistanceBearing from MSC VANESSA
AEGEAN PARADISEPassenger ship0.2 nm24° NNE
TRANS CATALONIATanker0.2 nm273° W
EVER WISECargo ship0.3 nm113° ESE
HAFNIA LIONESSTanker0.4 nm254° WSW
BLUE RIDGE HIGHWAYCargo ship0.4 nm260° W
ALEXIAUnknown0.4 nm298° WNW
MSC JENNACargo ship, carrying category A hazardous cargo0.6 nm204° SSW
RUN FU 8Cargo ship0.6 nm29° NNE
SHAN ZHITanker, carrying category B hazardous cargo0.7 nm257° WSW
MAERSK ENSENADACargo ship, carrying category A hazardous cargo1.0 nm263° W
MEHMET AKSOYCargo ship1.1 nm31° NNE
FUJI GALAXYTanker1.4 nm65° ENE
OOCL TEXASCargo ship, carrying category A hazardous cargo1.4 nm257° WSW
FEARLESS WARRIORTanker1.5 nm339° NNW
MORNING HOPETanker1.5 nm354° N

Ranked by great-circle distance from MSC VANESSA'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”.