
Technical Specifications
Live Tracking
Most time stopped at Hamilton: 16 d across 3 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.
Resolved from the live AIS destination. Distance is the real sea route (around land and through canals). “Off the port” is steaming time only; “likely alongside” adds the wait this port has actually kept comparable ships for. The queue is a typical case, not a promise — berth waits vary far more than they average. A destination is the crew’s stated intent, not a confirmed fixture.
Intelligence
How a hull like this loses value with age (today's market). The dot marks this ship at 21 yrs.
A quick estimate: the median $/dwt of 59 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.
See the full valuation consensusVerified reported figure. Band is peer-relative, not official IMO CII.
AIS-derived from our live feed.
Compliance
On 24 November 2025, the bulk carrier "FEDERAL SAKURA", with 24 people on board, reported having sustained a total engine failure in the Gulf of St. Lawrence off Percé, QC. The engine was stopped and the crew carried out repairs while adrift before resuming the voyage.
On 26 February 2021, the bulk carrier "FEDERAL SAKURA", while being escorted by two tugs and under the conduct of a pilot, reported the failure of its main engine upon berthing at Section 50 of the Port of Quebec, QC. The main engine was restarted and the vessel proceeded alongside.
On 14 August 2018, the bulk carrier "FEDERAL SAKURA" had its crane and hatch cover damaged while opening the cargo hold in Montréal, QC. Repairs were made.
On 5 December 2006, the vessel Federal Sakura reported a close quarters situation with the vessel Golden Shadow in the Bay des Ha Ha at Port Alfred (Saguenay).
As the Federal Sakura proceeded upstream towards the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) bridges 7A and 7B, the vessel's bridge team noted that the signal lights on Bridge 7A were still red. The pilot then attempted to contact the bridge operator, but there was no response. The decision was made to stop the vessel under the Honoré-Mercier Bridge, downstream from bridges 7A and 7B. There was no headway, but the stern of the vessel brushed against the south pier of the Honoré-Mercier Bridge. After the operator of bridges 7A and 7B took ill, he was replaced by another bridge operator, who immediately activated the signal for train 89 operated by the Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT 89) to proceed on Bridge 7A. Subsequently, the bridge operator released Bridge 7A's emergency stop push button and started raising the lift span to allow the Federal Sakura to continue its voyage.
Recorded marine occurrences naming this vessel.
Build Series

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
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 18 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 6.4 m · 40.6 t per cm immersion
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.
density DWT/GT=1.70 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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