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NIKOLSK

CargoCargo shipRussia

Position 13 min agoSource: Digitraffic (Fintraffic)CC BY 4.0

Identity

Name
NIKOLSK
MMSI
273363290
IMO number
Not reported
Call sign
NIKOLSK
Station type
Ship station

Classification & hull

AIS type code
70
Type
Cargo ship
Category
Cargo
Length overall
104 m
Beam
12 m
Draught
3.0 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
ST.PETERBURG
ETA
1 Oct, 16:00 UTC
Navigational status
At anchor
Speed over ground
0.2 kn
Course over ground
140°
True heading
Not reported

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
59° 58.778' N
Longitude
29° 42.261' E
Decimal
59.97963, 29.70435
Received
13 min ago
Reported by ship
Not reported
Source feed
Digitraffic (Fintraffic)

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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Track drawn from 7 stored position reports, oldest first. Gaps in the line are gaps in reception, not evidence that the vessel stopped.

Nearby

Other vessels near this one

Everything else our snapshot holds within 25 nm of NIKOLSK's last known position, straight-line distance and true bearing — not a route either vessel is following.

VesselTypeDistanceBearing from NIKOLSK
FESCO NOVIKCargo ship1.9 nm96° E
HWA LANDCargo ship3.4 nm298° WNW
NEVA-LEADER 1Cargo ship3.7 nm298° WNW
VOLGONEFT-259Unknown8.6 nm287° WNW
RUSADERCargo ship8.8 nm288° WNW
MS MARIACargo ship9.2 nm292° WNW
PIZHMACargo ship9.4 nm282° WNW
NAVIKTanker9.8 nm282° WNW
AURORATanker10.0 nm291° WNW
AMIRA MIRUNACargo ship10.1 nm281° W
STANISLAV GOVORUKHINTanker10.1 nm283° WNW
BOSFORCargo ship10.4 nm280° W
MIKHAIL DUDINCargo ship, no additional information10.7 nm282° WNW
POLARISTanker11.2 nm297° WNW
MIRANATanker11.3 nm305° NW

Ranked by great-circle distance from NIKOLSK'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 Digitraffic (Fintraffic) under CC BY 4.0. 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”.