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ALGOMA COMPASS

Built by American Ship Building Company in 1973

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IMO: 7326245
MMSI: 316036229
Call Sign: VDBY

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage

18,639GT

Deadweight

32,068DWT

Length Overall

207.26m

Beam

23.77m

Draught

6.1m

Year Built

1973

Live Tracking

Current Position

Live AIS · 7 min ago

Track · last 14 d

Position

46.759°N · 92.097°W

Speed

0.0 kn

Course

197°

Status

Moored

Destination SUPERIORETA Oct 13, 02:00 AMLaden · 8.0 m

Where it waited most

Most time stopped at Hamilton: 3 d across 4 stays.

1
Hamilton3 d · 4×
2
Rouge River20 h · 3×
3
Saint-Catharines18 h · 41×
4
Erie15 h
5
Superior11 h
6
Port of Montreal11 h · 4×
7
Duluth10 h · 2×
8
Port de Valleyfield6 h
9
Port Weller5 h · 14×
10
Meldrum Bay4 h
11
Port Colborne3 h · 4×
12
Sarnia2 h

Derived from the AIS track: runs of near-zero speed (anchored, moored or drifting) snapped to the nearest port. Builds up as we observe the vessel.

Intelligence

Risk & Sustainability

Risk scoreHigh

58/ 100

Safety38

Compliance95

Environment38

Recent port calls

Duluth
Oct 15, 2026
In port
Sault Ste Marie
Oct 14, 2026
0.0 d
Saint-Catharines
Oct 10, 2026
0.0 d
Saint-Catharines
Oct 9, 2026
0.0 d
Port Weller
Oct 9, 2026
0.0 d

AIS-derived from our live feed.

Compliance

Safety Record

Marine casualties5

Machinery FailureMinor
Oct 15, 2025Bar Point, ONTARIO (ON)
On 15 October 2025, the bulk carrier "ALGOMA COMPASS" reported having experienced the total failure of its port main engine in the Detroit River off Amherstburg, ON. The vessel resumed its voyage to Windsor, ON where the crew performed repairs.
GroundingModerate
Nov 4, 2023Île du Grenadier, QUEBEC (QC)
On 04 November 2023, the bulk carrier "ALGOMA COMPASS" reported having sustained a total failure of its bow thruster's generator on Lac Saint-François, QC. The vessel was anchored off Saint-Zotique, QC and the crew conducted repairs.
Striking/AllisionSerious
Nov 21, 2022Port Colborne, ONTARIO (ON)
On 21 November 2022, the self-unloader vessel "ALGOMA COMPASS" reported having struck an abutment of Bridge 21 while proceeding downbound on the Welland Canal off Port Colborne, ON. The vessel proceeded to the west wall at Lock 8 to await for an inspection of damages.
Machinery FailureMinor
Apr 29, 2021Windsor, ONTARIO (ON)
On 29 April 2021, the bulk carrier "ALGOMA COMPASS" reported sustaining a machinery failure and needing to anchor in the Detroit River off Windsor, ON. The crew carried out repairs and the vessel resumed its voyage.
Striking/AllisionSerious
Jun 11, 2018St. Catharines, ON, ONTARIO (ON)
On 11 June 2018, the bulk carrier "ALGOMA COMPASS" made contact with the ship arrester while transiting Lock No.5 in the Welland Canal, ON.

Recorded marine occurrences naming this vessel.

Operational Status

Activity

Idle / at anchorFix within the last day

Stopped, anchored or moored on its latest broadcast: parked, not necessarily withdrawn.

Speed

0.0 kn

Nav status

Moored

Last broadcast

within the last day

Hull age

53 yr

Read from the single most-recent AIS broadcast we hold for this hull. We keep no position history, so this is a point-in-time posture, not a dwell inference. Derived in-house from our own AIS feed; weight it by the broadcast age above.

Port calls

15 recent · AIS-detected

Arrivals, time in port and the load/discharge inferred from the draught change, detected from AIS track history. An open call means the vessel is still in port (no departure observed yet).

Duluth
op. unknown
In port since
Port Weller
no cargo change
→ · 4 h in port· draught 8.0→8.0 m
Rouge River
no cargo change
→ · 9 h in port· draught 7.7→7.7 m
Port de Valleyfield
no cargo change
→ · 7 h in port· draught 8.0→8.0 m
Sainte-Catherine
no cargo change
→ · 15 h in port· draught 8.0→8.0 m
Port Weller
no cargo change
→ · 2 h in port· draught 6.3→6.3 m
Port Weller
no cargo change
→ · 2 h in port· draught 8.0→8.0 m
Erie
no cargo change
→ · 16 h in port· draught 7.9→7.9 m
Port Colborne
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 7.7→7.7 m
Rouge River
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Rouge River
no cargo change
→ · 16 h in port· draught 7.7→7.7 m
Goderich
no cargo change
→ · 25 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Port Colborne
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 7.5→7.5 m
Port Weller
no cargo change
→ · 2 h in port· draught 7.5→7.5 m
Port Colborne
no cargo change
→ · 2 h in port· draught 7.5→7.5 m

Method: each call is a run of fixes inside a port’s geofence confirmed by a stop (or an AIS gap); load/discharge is the sign of the draught delta over the call. Indicative: arrivals before our AIS history began read from the first observation.

Where it waits

7 ports · 4.6 days total

Time-in-port summed by port from the AIS-detected port-call history: the ports this vessel has spent the most time at, longest first.

Rouge River· USA
29 h
3 calls · 10 h avg
Goderich· Canada
25 h
1 call · 25 h avg
Erie· USA
16 h
1 call · 16 h avg
Sainte-Catherine· Canada
15 h
1 call · 15 h avg
Port Weller· Canada
10 h
4 calls · 3 h avg
Port Colborne· Canada
8 h
3 calls · 3 h avg
Port de Valleyfield· Canada
7 h
1 call · 7 h avg

Based on 14 completed calls observed since . Open calls (no departure yet) are excluded. The distribution sharpens as AIS history accrues.

Composite Risk

Risk Score

74/100

Elevated riskLow confidence40% component coverage

Multiple adverse factors, or a hard ship-specific signal, lift this hull above the fleet norm.

PSC detentionsno data

Sanctions exposureno data

AIS-gap & behaviourno data

Hull age100

Flag register50

A coverage-weighted blend of the 2 components we could read for this hull; the weights renormalise over only the components present, so a thin read is never inflated and a hull is never credited a “safe 0” for a signal it has no row for. This headline is flagged low-confidence (a thin or structural-only read) and should not be treated as a verdict. Higher means riskier. Derived in-house from government-open port-State-control, flag, sanctions and our own vessel data; weight it by the coverage above.

Estimated

Capacity & Classification

Cargo capacity at draughtMedium confidence

~32,068t at summer draught

Bulker · summer draught 6.1 m · 40.2 t per cm immersion

Estimated intake by draught

4.27 m~24,714 t

4.57 m~25,939 t

4.88 m~27,165 t

5.19 m~28,391 t

5.49 m~29,617 t

5.79 m~30,842 t

6.1 m~32,068 t

Estimate only: modelled from deadweight (deadweight regression) using a first-principles hydrostatic model, not measured hydrostatic tables. The design draught it is anchored to is unreliable across the fleet.

Type classification

Declared

Bulker

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Inferred from size

Bulker

density DWT/GT=1.72 is consistent with declared bulker

DWT/GT 1.72Beam/LOA 0.115Declared type: Bulk Carrier

Declared type is consistent with the class implied by the vessel’s size signals. Inferred via our shared size-based classifier.

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Commercial

Voyage Planning

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Segment: Dry bulk
Deadweight: 32,068 DWT
Speed: 12.5 kn
Fuel 1 at sea: 22 t/day

Typical Handysize speed and burn. Replace them with the ship's own figures in the planner.

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