Bulk Carrier🇨🇦 CanadaActive

ALGOMA GUARDIAN

Built by 3. Maj in 1987

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IMO: 8505850
MMSI: 316018031
Call Sign: CFK9698

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage

23,306GT

Deadweight

34,685DWT

Length Overall

222m

Beam

23m

Draught

8.1m

Year Built

1987

Live Tracking

Current Position

Live AIS · 4 min ago

Track · last 13 d

Position

43.280°N · 79.802°W

Speed

0.0 kn

Course

321°

Status

Moored

Destination HAMILTONETA Jul 1, 05:00 AMLaden · 8.1 m

Where it waited most

Most time stopped at Thunder Bay — 29 h across 1 stay.

1
Thunder Bay29 h
2
Hamilton9 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.

Underway to

Hamilton

USAAIS: HAMILTON

Distance

1806 nm

sea route

ETA (computed)

—

at 7 kn

Speed now

6.6 kn

Under way using engine

Crew ETA

not reported

Resolved from the live AIS destination. Distance is the real sea route (around land and through canals); the computed ETA is at the vessel’s passage speed. A destination is the crew’s stated intent, not a confirmed fixture.

Intelligence

Risk & Sustainability

Risk scoreHigh

58/ 100

Safety38

Compliance95

Environment38

Carbon intensity · estimatedE

This ship has no verified emissions report. We estimate a band E from its segment, size and age (71% confidence).

Estimate, not a reported figure. Within one band 95% of the time on reported peers.

Recent port calls

Hamilton
Jul 1, 2026
In port
Beauharnois
Jun 30, 2026
0.0 d
Sainte-Catherine
Jun 29, 2026
0.0 d
Saint-Lambert
Jun 29, 2026
0.0 d
Saint-Lambert
Jun 24, 2026
0.0 d

AIS-derived from our live feed.

Compliance

Safety Record

Marine casualties8

TOTAL FAILURE OF ANY MACHINERY OR TECHNICAL SYSTEMMinor
Jan 10, 2026Pointe des Pères, QUEBEC (QC)
On 10 January 2026, the bulk carrier "ALGOMA GUARDIAN", while under the conduct of a pilot, reported a total failure of its main engine aft blower in the St. Lawrence River off Sorel, QC. The vessel proceeded to an anchorage on Lac Saint-Pierre, QC for repairs.
INTENTIONAL BEACHING/GROUNDING/ANCHORING to avoid occurrenceModerate
Dec 31, 2025Heathers Point, ONTARIO (ON)
On 31 December 2025, the bulk carrier "ALGOMA GUARDIAN", while under the conduct of a pilot, ran aground after sustaining a total engine failure in the St. Lawrence River off Brockville, ON. The vessel was anchored and the crew reported no damage. The vessel freed itself and proceeded to an anchorage off Maitland, ON, for further inspection.
TOTAL FAILURE OF ANY MACHINERY OR TECHNICAL SYSTEMMinor
Nov 14, 2023Colchester Reef, ONTARIO (ON)
On 14 November 2023, the bulk carrier "ALGOMA GUARDIAN" reported having sustained a total failure of its main engine's lube oil system on Lake Erie, ON. The vessel completed repairs while adrift, then resumed its voyage.
RISK OF COLLISION (near collision) - With another vessel or other floating objectMinor
Oct 5, 2022Longueuil, QUEBEC (QC)
On 05 October 2022, the bulk carrier "ALGOMA GUARDIAN", while under the conduct of a pilot, reported a close quarters situation with the passenger vessel "NAVARK VOLKERAK" off Longueuil, QC.
TOTAL FAILURE OF ANY MACHINERY OR TECHNICAL SYSTEMMinor
Sep 17, 2022Pointe de la Durantaye, QUEBEC (QC)
On 17 September 2022, the cargo vessel "ALGOMA GUARDIAN", while under the conduct of a pilot, reported sustaining engine issues in Chenal des Grands Voiliers off Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, QC. The vessel continued its voyage to Port-Cartier, Quebec to carry out repairs.
TOTAL FAILURE OF ANY MACHINERY OR TECHNICAL SYSTEMMinor
Dec 27, 2021Beauharnois, QUEBEC (QC)
On 27 December 2021, the bulk carrier "ALGOMA GUARDIAN" reported sustaining a steering gear pump issue in the St. Lawrence Seaway off Beauharnois, QC. The vessel proceeded to the anchorage in Pointe Fortier, QC to assess the problem and carry out repairs.
TOTAL FAILURE OF ANY MACHINERY OR TECHNICAL SYSTEMMinor
Jun 2, 2019St. Lawrence Seaway off St. Catharines, ON., ONTARIO (ON)
On 02 June 2019, the bulk carrier "ALGOMA GUARDIAN" reported a machinery failure while transiting Canal Welland, St. Catharines, ON. The vessel berthed in the canal to perform repairs.
TOTAL FAILURE OF ANY MACHINERY OR TECHNICAL SYSTEMMinor
May 17, 2019Port Lambton, ON., ONTARIO (ON)
On 17 May 2019, the bulk carrier "ALGOMA GUARDIAN" was reported disabled due to water in the fuel causing a loss of power while in the St. Clair River off Port Lambton, ON. The crew carried out repairs while the vessel was drifting and the vessel resumed its voyage. No injuries, damage, or pollution was reported.

Recorded marine occurrences naming this vessel.

Build Series

Sister Vessels

2 sisters

3. Maj · BULKER · 1986–1987 · 3-hull series

ALGOMA DISCOVERY

Built 198734,752 DWTIMO 8505848

ALGOMA SPIRIT

Built 198634,685 DWTIMO 8504882

Sister hulls share a yard, segment, build year (±1) and deadweight (±3%) — the cleanest comparables for valuation. Derived in-house from our fleet register; coverage is limited to hulls carrying a recorded builder, so a series may be incomplete.

Operational Status

Activity

Under wayFix within the last day

Making way at sea speed on its latest broadcast.

Speed

6.6 kn

Nav status

Under way using engine

Last broadcast

within the last day

Hull age

39 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

1 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).

Beauharnois
no cargo change
→ · 2 h in port· draught 8.1→8.1 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

1 port · 2 h 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.

Beauharnois· Canada
2 h
1 call · 2 h avg

Based on 1 completed call observed since — open calls (no departure yet) are excluded. The distribution sharpens as AIS history accrues.

Composite Risk

Risk Score

70/100

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

Dark-fleet signalno data

Hull age100

Flag register25

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

~34,685t at summer draught

Bulker · summer draught 8.1 m · 42.3 t per cm immersion

Estimated intake by draught

5.67 m~24,408 t

6.07 m~26,121 t

6.48 m~27,834 t

6.89 m~29,546 t

7.29 m~31,259 t

7.69 m~32,972 t

8.1 m~34,685 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

→

Inferred from size

Bulker

density DWT/GT=1.49 is consistent with declared bulker

DWT/GT 1.49Beam/LOA 0.104Declared 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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