Self Discharging Bulk Carrier 🇨🇦 CanadaActive

JOHN D LEITCH

Built by Port Weller Dry Docks in 1967

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IMO: 6714586
MMSI: 316001701
Call Sign: VGWM

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage

22,080GT

Deadweight

30,745DWT

Length Overall

222.51m

Beam

22.94m

Draught

6.8m

Year Built

1967

Live Tracking

Current Position

Live AIS · 7 min ago

Track · last 11 d

Position

42.503°N · 80.055°W

Speed

10.9 kn

Course

249°

Status

Under way using engine

Destination SUPERIORETA Oct 19, 10:00 AMLaden · 6.4 m

Where it waited most

Most time stopped at Port Weller: 27 d across 9 stays.

1
Port Weller27 d · 9×
2
Clarkson4 d · 6×
3
Nanticoke33 h
4
Superior23 h · 6×
5
Saint-Catharines18 h · 31×
6
Hamilton16 h
7
Port Colborne11 h · 6×
8
Rouge River8 h · 2×
9
Sarnia6 h

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

Risk & Sustainability

Risk scoreHigh

58/ 100

Safety38

Compliance95

Environment38

Recent port calls

Port Colborne
Oct 16, 2026
0.0 d
Saint-Catharines
Oct 16, 2026
0.1 d
Port Weller
Oct 15, 2026
0.0 d
Clarkson
Oct 14, 2026
0.9 d
Clarkson
Oct 14, 2026
0.3 d

AIS-derived from our live feed.

Compliance

Safety Record

Marine casualties8

Striking/AllisionSerious
Oct 19, 2024Bath, ONTARIO (ON)
On 19 October 2024, the bulk carrier "JOHN D. LEITCH" reported having struck a mooring dolphin while berthing in Bath, ON. Once the vessel was secured, the crew lowered a punt and assessed the damages.
Striking/AllisionSerious
Apr 30, 2022Québec, QUEBEC (QC)
On 30 April 2022, the bulk carrier "JOHN D. LEITCH", while berthing under the conduct of a pilot, reported striking a dock at section 52 of the Port of Quebec in Québec, QC. The vessel and the dock sustained minor damage.
CollisionModerate
Feb 16, 2022Goderich, ONTARIO (ON)
On 16 February 2022, the tug "OCEAN A. GAUTHIER" reported having collided with the unloading boom of the berthed bulk carrier "JOHN D. LEITCH" in Goderich, ON. Damage to the tug was reported.
GroundingMinor
Sep 22, 2021Thorold, ONTARIO (ON)
On 22 September 2021, the bulk carrier "JOHN D. LEITCH", reported having made bottom contact in in the Welland Canal, ON. The vessel docked in Thorold, ON, to assess damage and carry out repairs.
GroundingMinor
Aug 28, 2021South Shore Canal, QC, QUEBEC (QC)
On 28 August 2021, the bulk carrier "JOHN D. LEITCH" reported making bottom contact due to bank suction in the South Shore Canal, near Kahnawake, QC.
Machinery FailureMinor
Apr 2, 2021Burlington, ONTARIO (ON)
On 02 April 2021, the bulk carrier "JOHN D. LEITCH" reported being disabled off Burlington, ON due to the overheating of its propeller shaft bearing. The vessel was brought alongside Hamilton, ON under tow.
CollisionModerate
Apr 14, 2020Welland Canal, Thorold, ON, ONTARIO (ON)
On 14 April 2020, the upbound bulk carrier "JOHANNA G" collided port-to-port with the moored downbound bulk carriers "FEDERAL CHURCHILL" and "JOHN D. LEITCH" whilst exiting the Welland Canal's Lock No.7 in Thorold, ON. The vessel dropped both anchors and sustained damage to some of its fairleads.
Machinery FailureMinor
Oct 4, 2018Beauharnois, QC, QUEBEC (QC)
On 04 October 2018, the bulk carrier "JOHN D. LEITCH" reported a problem with the main engine while transiting the Beauharnois locks off Beauharnois, QC. The vessel continued upbound. On 06 October 2018, the vessel was secured at the Welland Canal north wall for repairs.

Recorded marine occurrences naming this vessel.

Operational Status

Activity

Slow steamingFix within the last day

Under way but in the slow band: effective capacity voluntarily withdrawn.

Speed

2.3 kn

Nav status

Under way using engine

Last broadcast

within the last day

Hull age

59 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.

Port calls

21 recent · AIS-detected

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).

Clarkson
no cargo change
→ · 22 h in port· draught 6.4→6.4 m
Nanticoke
no cargo change
→ · 34 h in port· draught 6.4→6.4 m
Port Colborne
no cargo change
→ · 7 h in port· draught 6.4→6.4 m
Port Weller
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 6.4→6.4 m
Clarkson
no cargo change
→ · 2.3 days in port· draught 8.1→8.1 m
Port Colborne
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 8.1→8.1 m
Sarnia
no cargo change
→ · 8 h in port· draught 6.6→6.6 m
Port Colborne
no cargo change
→ · 5 h in port· draught 8.0→8.0 m
Rouge River
no cargo change
→ · 6 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Port Colborne
no cargo change
→ · 4 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Port Weller
no cargo change
→ · 26.3 days in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Port Weller
op. unknown
In port since
Port Weller
op. unknown
In port since
Port Colborne
no cargo change
→ · 2 h in port· draught 8.1→8.1 m
Port Colborne
no cargo change
→ · 5 h in port· draught 6.9→6.9 m
Port Weller
no cargo change
→ · 2 h in port· draught 6.9→6.9 m
Fort William
no cargo change
→ · 12 h in port· draught 6.1→6.1 m
Clarkson
no cargo change
→ · 37 h in port· draught 8.1→8.1 m
Nanticoke
no cargo change
→ · 23 h in port· draught 7.6→8.1 m
Port Weller
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 7.6→7.6 m
Port Colborne
no cargo change
→ · 2 h in port· draught 7.6→7.6 m

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.

Where it waits

7 ports · 35.9 days total

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.

Port Weller· Canada
26.6 days
4 calls · 6.6 days avg
Clarkson· Canada
4.7 days
3 calls · 38 h avg
Nanticoke· Canada
2.4 days
2 calls · 29 h avg
Port Colborne· Canada
28 h
7 calls · 4 h avg
Fort William· Canada
12 h
1 call · 12 h avg
Sarnia· Canada
8 h
1 call · 8 h avg
Rouge River· USA
6 h
1 call · 6 h avg

Based on 19 completed calls observed since . Open calls (no departure yet) are excluded. The distribution sharpens as AIS history accrues.

Composite Risk

Risk Score

74/100

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

AIS-gap & behaviourno data

Hull age100

Flag register50

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

~30,745t at summer draught

Bulker · summer draught 6.8 m · 39.1 t per cm immersion

Estimated intake by draught

4.76 m~22,768 t

5.1 m~24,098 t

5.44 m~25,427 t

5.78 m~26,757 t

6.12 m~28,086 t

6.46 m~29,416 t

6.8 m~30,745 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=1.39 is consistent with declared bulker

DWT/GT 1.39Beam/LOA 0.103Declared type: Self Discharging 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

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Segment: Dry bulk
Deadweight: 30,745 DWT
Speed: 12.5 kn
Fuel 1 at sea: 22 t/day

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