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Heavy Load Carrier🇲🇹 MaltaActive

BLACK MARLIN

IMO
9186326
MMSI
248312000
Call Sign
9HA4606

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage
37,938GT
Deadweight
57,021DWT
Length Overall
217.5m
Beam
42.04m
Draught
8.5m
Year Built
1999

Live Tracking

Current Position

Live AIS · 13 d ago
Track · last 6 h
Position
34.658°S · 18.656°E
Speed
10.5 kn
Course
122°
Status
Under way using engine
Destination ZADURETA Jun 22, 03:00 AMLaden · 8.5 m
Underway to

Port of Durban

South AfricaAIS: ZADUR
Distance
794 nm
sea route
ETA (computed)
at 11 kn
Speed now
10.5 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 scoreMedium
64/ 100
Safety48
Compliance95
Environment48
Carbon intensity · 2024A
28,038t CO₂
AER (CO₂/capacity·nm)
8.3
Fuel burned
8,972 t
Technical
Not Applicable

Verified reported figure. Band is peer-relative, not official IMO CII.

Recent port calls

AIS-derived from our live feed.

Operational Status

Activity

Under wayLow confidenceFix 11 days ago

Making way at sea speed on its latest broadcast.

Speed
10.5 kn
Nav status
Under way using engine
Last broadcast
11 days ago
Hull age
27 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.

Composite Risk

Risk Score

93/100
High riskLow confidence40% component coverage

Strong, corroborated adverse evidence — a detention, sanctions exposure or a dark-fleet signal.

PSC detentionsno data
Sanctions exposureno data
Dark-fleet signalno data
Hull age88
Flag register100

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
~57,021t at summer draught

Other · summer draught 8.5 m · 73.9 t per cm immersion

Estimated intake by draught
5.95 m~38,168 t
6.38 m~41,310 t
6.8 m~44,452 t
7.23 m~47,595 t
7.65 m~50,737 t
8.08 m~53,879 t
8.5 m~57,021 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.

Commercial

Voyage Estimate

From 57,021 DWT · ~30 t/day · bunker @ live VLSFO.

Overview

About This Vessel

MV Black Marlin is a semisubmersible heavy-lift ship operated by Dockwise of the Netherlands. Black Marlin and her sister ship MV Blue Marlin comprise the Marlin class of heavy lift ship.

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