Bulk Carrier 🇺🇸 USAActive

EDGAR B.SPEER

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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

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.

Intelligence

Risk & Sustainability

Quick estimate · comparable sales

$88.6Mrange $88.6M to $88.6M

$1,176/dwt · 75,385 dwt · built 1980

low confidence · 2 comps

Comparable sales

QIDONG XIANGYU XY197 · · $75MQIDONG XIANGYU XY198 · · $75M

A quick estimate: the median $/dwt of 2 similar-size, similar-age ships sold in the last 24 months, not re-timed to today's market. The full valuation blends several models over recent sales adjusted for size, age and market moves, so its consensus value can differ from this figure. Indicative, not a certified valuation.

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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 (60% confidence).

Estimate, not a reported figure. Within one band 94% of the time on reported peers.

Composite Risk

Risk Score

74/100

Elevated riskLow confidence20% 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 registerno data

A coverage-weighted blend of the single component 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~57,083 t

6.52 m~60,133 t

6.96 m~63,184 t

7.4 m~66,234 t

7.83 m~69,284 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

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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.

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Commercial

Voyage Planning

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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.

Segment: Dry bulk
Deadweight: 75,385 DWT
Speed: 12.5 kn
Fuel 1 at sea: 30 t/day

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

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