Bulk Carrier 🇺🇸 USAActive

JOHN J.BOLAND

Built by Bay Shipbuilding Company in 1973

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IMO: 7318901
MMSI: 366938780
Call Sign: WZE4539

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage

13,862GT

Deadweight

33,438DWT

Length Overall

207.26m

Beam

23.77m

Year Built

1973

Overview

About This Vessel

MV John J. Boland is a diesel-powered lake freighter owned and operated by the Buffalo-based American Steamship Company (ASC), a subsidiary of Rand Logistics. This vessel was built in 1973 at Bay Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Initially named Charles E. Wilson, the vessel was renamed to its current name in 2000. She is a self-unloading vessel, with a 250-foot (76 m) boom, mounting a conveyor belt, that could be swung to port or starboard. The ship is 680 feet (210 m) long and 78 feet (24 m) wide, with a carrying capacity of 34,000 tons (at midsummer draft), limestone, grain, coal or iron ore.

Live Tracking

Current Position

Live AIS · 2 d ago

Track · last 12 d

Position

42.011°N · 83.139°W

Speed

10.0 kn

Course

185°

Status

Under way using engine

Destination LORAINETA Oct 14, 09:00 AMDraught 8.2 m

Where it waited most

Most time stopped at Duluth: 29 h across 5 stays.

1
Duluth29 h · 5×
2
Calumet Harbor21 h · 3×
3
Rouge River13 h · 3×
4
Sault Ste Marie7 h · 14×
5
Cleveland7 h
6
Calcite5 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

Buffington
Oct 7, 2026
0.3 d
Calumet Harbor
Oct 6, 2026
1.0 d
Buffington
Oct 5, 2026
0.3 d
Sault Ste Marie
Sep 30, 2026
0.1 d
Duluth
Sep 27, 2026
0.3 d

AIS-derived from our live feed.

Operational Status

Activity

Under wayFix 2 days ago

Making way at sea speed on its latest broadcast.

Speed

10.0 kn

Nav status

Under way using engine

Last broadcast

2 days ago

Hull age

53 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).

Calumet Harbor
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
Sault Ste Marie
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
Duluth
no cargo change
→ · 10 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
Calcite
no cargo change
→ · 5 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
Rouge River
no cargo change
→ · 10 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
Sault Ste Marie
no cargo change
→ · 4 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
Cleveland
no cargo change
→ · 8 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
Sault Ste Marie
no cargo change
→ · 2 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
Duluth
no cargo change
→ · 8 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
Rouge River
no cargo change
→ · 2 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
Sault Ste Marie
no cargo change
→ · 2 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
Duluth
no cargo change
→ · 12 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
Sault Ste Marie
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
Rouge River
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
Sault Ste Marie
no cargo change
→ · 2 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
Duluth
no cargo change
→ · 8 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
Rouge River
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
Calumet Harbor
no cargo change
→ · 2 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
Toledo
no cargo change
→ · 38 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
Duluth
no cargo change
→ · 8 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
Rouge River
no cargo change
→ · 3 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 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 · 5.9 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.

Duluth· USA
48 h
5 calls · 10 h avg
Toledo· USA
38 h
1 call · 38 h avg
Rouge River· USA
21 h
5 calls · 4 h avg
Sault Ste Marie· USA
16 h
6 calls · 3 h avg
Cleveland· USA
8 h
1 call · 8 h avg
Calcite· USA
5 h
1 call · 5 h avg
Calumet Harbor· USA
5 h
2 calls · 3 h avg

Based on 21 completed calls observed since . Open calls (no departure yet) are excluded. The distribution sharpens as AIS history accrues.

Composite Risk

Risk Score

89/100

High risk40% component coverage

Strong, corroborated adverse evidence: a detention, sanctions exposure or an AIS-gap / behavioural signal.

PSC detentionsno data

Sanctions exposureno data

AIS-gap & behaviour80

Hull age100

Flag registerno data

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. 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

~33,438t at summer draught

Bulker · summer draught 10.24 m · 41.3 t per cm immersion

Estimated intake by draught

7.17 m~20,752 t

7.68 m~22,867 t

8.19 m~24,981 t

8.7 m~27,095 t

9.22 m~29,209 t

9.73 m~31,324 t

10.24 m~33,438 t

Design draught looks implausible for this class and size. The figures above are anchored to it, so treat them with extra caution.

Estimate only: modelled from deadweight (deadweight only) using a first-principles hydrostatic model, not measured hydrostatic tables. The design draught it is anchored to is unreliable across the fleet.

Type classificationConflict

Declared

Bulker

→

Inferred from size

Bulker

density DWT/GT=2.41 is physically implausible for any cargo ship (declared bulker) — likely a tonnage data error

DWT/GT 2.41Beam/LOA 0.115Declared type: Bulk Carrier

The declared type conflicts with the class implied by the vessel’s size signals: a possible mis-declaration. Inferred via our shared size-based classifier.

Transparency

Risk signals

Behavioural flags raised against this vessel, each shown with the raw evidence behind it. Derived in-house from data we are entitled to publish; informational, not a determination of wrongdoing.

Type vs. size mismatchhighstrength 0.95

Declared type contradicts the size-implied class

Jun 23, 2026

Audit Confidence: 0.95
Beam Loa Ratio: 0.115
Deadweight: 33,438
Declared Class: BULKER
Declared Type: Bulk Carrier
Dwt Gt Ratio: 2.412
Gross Tonnage: 13,862
Reason: density DWT/GT=2.41 is physically implausible for any cargo ship (declared bulker) — likely a tonnage data error
Size Implied Class: BULKER

Method: declared type vs size-implied class (DWT/GT density + beam/LOA fullness). Source: vessel_type_audit (sibling P3#3 job; shared coarse_class classifier).

Signals are a current-state view: a flag clears once the vessel stops tripping its detector. These are screening indicators, not a substitute for your own due diligence.

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Commercial

Voyage Planning

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Segment: Dry bulk
Deadweight: 33,438 DWT
Speed: 12.5 kn
Fuel 1 at sea: 22 t/day

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

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