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Dry Bulk Freight Index2,490 -1.3%Capesize3,538 -2.8%Panamax2,124 +0.7%Dirty Tanker Index1,935 +1.1%Supramax1,668 -0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,280 -1.4%Handysize947 +0.2%Dry Bulk Freight Index2,490 -1.3%Capesize3,538 -2.8%Panamax2,124 +0.7%Dirty Tanker Index1,935 +1.1%Supramax1,668 -0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,280 -1.4%Handysize947 +0.2%Dry Bulk Freight Index2,490 -1.3%Capesize3,538 -2.8%Panamax2,124 +0.7%Dirty Tanker Index1,935 +1.1%Supramax1,668 -0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,280 -1.4%Handysize947 +0.2%Dry Bulk Freight Index2,490 -1.3%Capesize3,538 -2.8%Panamax2,124 +0.7%Dirty Tanker Index1,935 +1.1%Supramax1,668 -0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,280 -1.4%Handysize947 +0.2%Dry Bulk Freight Index2,490 -1.3%Capesize3,538 -2.8%Panamax2,124 +0.7%Dirty Tanker Index1,935 +1.1%Supramax1,668 -0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,280 -1.4%Handysize947 +0.2%Dry Bulk Freight Index2,490 -1.3%Capesize3,538 -2.8%Panamax2,124 +0.7%Dirty Tanker Index1,935 +1.1%Supramax1,668 -0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,280 -1.4%Handysize947 +0.2%
Bulk Carrier🇺🇸 USAActive

EDGAR B.SPEER

IMO
7625952
MMSI
366971330
Call Sign
WDH7562

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage
34,620GT
Deadweight
75,385DWT
Length Overall
306.02m
Beam
32m
Draught
8.7m
Year Built
1980

Intelligence

Risk & Sustainability

Risk scoreHigh
58/ 100
Safety38
Compliance95
Environment38
Carbon intensity · estimatedC

This ship has no verified emissions report. We estimate a band C from its segment, size and age (77% confidence).

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

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
~75,385t at summer draught

Bulker · summer draught 8.7 m · 70.1 t per cm immersion

Estimated intake by draught
6.09 m~57,087 t
6.52 m~60,137 t
6.96 m~63,187 t
7.4 m~66,236 t
7.83 m~69,286 t
8.26 m~72,335 t
8.7 m~75,385 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=2.18 is consistent with declared bulker

DWT/GT 2.18Beam/LOA 0.105Declared type: Bulk Carrier

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

Commercial

Voyage Estimate

From 75,385 DWT · ~30 t/day · bunker @ live VLSFO.

Overview

About This Vessel

MV Edgar B. Speer is a very large diesel-powered lake freighter owned and operated by Great Lakes Fleet, Inc, a subsidiary of Canadian National Railway. This vessel was built in 1980 in two halves by American Ship Building Company, in Lorain and Toledo, Ohio, with the two halves being joined in Lorain. The ship is 1,004 feet (306 m) long and 105 feet (32 m) at the beam. It has a carrying capacity of 2,105,527 cubic feet (59,621.9 m3), has a 52-foot (16 m) unloading shuttle boom and is capable of unloading 10,00 NT/hr. The maximum load that the Edgar B. Speer, is cable of carrying is about 74,100 tons. The ship has 20 hatches which are 28 by 11 feet (8.5 by 3.4 m), which open into 5 cargo holds. Unlike her sister ship Edwin H. Gott, Edgar B. Speer has retained her shuttle boom.This unique unloading system restricts her to transporting iron ore to Conneaut, Ohio and Gary, Indiana. As of 2025 the only other vessel in service with a shuttle boom configuration is the Stewart J. Cort.

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