
Built by Collingwood Shipbuilding in 1972
Technical Specifications
Live Tracking
Most time stopped at Hamilton: 4 d across 5 stays.
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
AIS-derived from our live feed.
Compliance
On 02 June 2026, the bulk carrier "CSL NIAGARA", while under the conduct of a pilot, reported having made bottom contact while approaching section No. 14 of Sorel, QC. The vessel was secured and the crew reported no apparent damage.
On 01 November 2025, the bulk carrier "CSL NIAGARA" reported that one of its crew members was injured while unloading cargo in Johnstown, ON. The Fire Department transported the injured crew member to a hospital.
On 09 April 2025, the bulk carrier "CSL NIAGARA", reported having struck the lower wall of lock number 3 located in Beauharnois, QC while transiting the seaway upbound. The vessel anchored to assess the damages, major damage to the forepeak ballast tank was reported.
On 11 July 2020, the bulk carrier "CSL NIAGARA" reported being disabled whilst transiting the St. Lawrence River abeam of section 94 in the Port of Montreal, QC. The vessel anchored, restored its propulsion power, and berthed at section 98. Repairs were carried out by shore technicians to the main engine control system and the vessel resumed its intended voyage.
On 18 December 2019, the self-discharging bulk carrier "CSL NIAGARA" reported a bottom contact while following the North shore routing on Lake Erie. A breach was identified in the no.3 starboard ballast tank following the impact. The vessel proceeded to wharf 16 in Port Colborne, ON.
On 25 April 2014, the MV "CSL NIAGARA" reported two fractures in its hull in the vicinity of the engine room whilst transiting the St. Claire River off Sarnia, ON. The vessel proceeded to Erie, PA in order to carry out repairs. No injuries or pollution reported.
On 17 April 2014, the MV "CSL NIAGARA" made contact with the bottom after drifting whilst anchored on Lake Michigan off Naubinway, MI. The vessel proceeded to Sarnia, ON for an underwater survey and then to Erie, PA in order to carry out repairs in drydock. No injuries or pollution reported.
On 17 November 2013, the ''CSL NIAGARA'' ran aground while exiting Moseley channel into Lake Erie, off Sandusky, Ohio, USA. No injuries, pollution or apparent damage to vessel reported. The vessel was refloated with the assistance of three tugs.
Recorded marine occurrences naming this vessel.
Operational Status
Making way at sea speed on its latest broadcast.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Based on 23 completed calls observed since . Open calls (no departure yet) are excluded. The distribution sharpens as AIS history accrues.
Composite Risk
Multiple adverse factors, or a hard ship-specific signal, lift this hull above the fleet norm.
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
Bulker · summer draught 8.4 m · 49.1 t per cm immersion
Estimate only: modelled from deadweight (hull geometry) using a first-principles hydrostatic model, not measured hydrostatic tables. The design draught it is anchored to is unreliable across the fleet.
density DWT/GT=1.39 is consistent with declared bulker
Declared type is consistent with the class implied by the vessel’s size signals. Inferred via our shared size-based classifier.
Commercial
Price it in the Route Planner between any two commercial ports: ballast and laden legs, two fuels at live bunker prices, port and canal costs, the weather on the way, and the TCE set against the market.
Typical Handysize speed and burn. Replace them with the ship's own figures in the planner.

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