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NORTHERN GUARD

CargoCargo ship, carrying category A hazardous cargoLiberia

Position 5 h agoSource: AISStream.ioFree for any use

Identity

Name
NORTHERN GUARD
MMSI
636024966
IMO number
9348455
Call sign
A8MX3
Station type
Ship station

Classification & hull

AIS type code
71
Type
Cargo ship, carrying category A hazardous cargo
Category
Cargo
Length overall
264 m
Beam
32 m
Draught
12.6 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
VNVUN
ETA
Not reported
Navigational status
Under way using engine
Speed over ground
4.7 kn
Course over ground
324°
True heading
342°

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° 9.300' N
Longitude
103° 42.369' E
Decimal
1.15500, 103.70615
Received
5 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 NORTHERN GUARD's last known position, straight-line distance and true bearing — not a route either vessel is following.

VesselTypeDistanceBearing from NORTHERN GUARD
METRO LIVASTanker0.3 nm139° SE
DING HENG 45Tanker1.2 nm4° N
AL KHATTIYAUnknown1.2 nm337° NNW
AL GHARRAFATanker, carrying category D hazardous cargo1.6 nm116° ESE
EVER BOOMYCargo ship, carrying category D hazardous cargo1.7 nm123° ESE
PACIFIC HARVESTCargo ship2.1 nm115° ESE
SEAHORSE 1Tanker2.3 nm103° ESE
GOLDEN ORIONTanker2.7 nm342° NNW
GAS GHAZITanker2.8 nm73° ENE
DONG GUI 18Tanker, carrying category B hazardous cargo3.0 nm65° ENE
FORTUNE YOUNGINTanker, no additional information3.0 nm52° NE
ARTEMIS OCEANTanker, no additional information3.2 nm65° ENE
EROWATI IUnknown3.2 nm48° NE
NAVE EQUATORTanker3.4 nm91° E
TOREROTanker, carrying category B hazardous cargo3.4 nm53° NE

Ranked by great-circle distance from NORTHERN GUARD'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”.