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Self Discharging Bulk Carrier🇨🇦 CanadaActive

NORTHERN VENTURE

Built by Shin Kurushima Dockyard in 1998

IMO
9167681
MMSI
316052496
Call Sign
VDAK

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage
12,475GT
Deadweight
19,651DWT
Length Overall
154.98m
Beam
22m
Draught
8.9m
Year Built
1998

Live Tracking

Current Position

Live AIS · 3 min ago
Track · last 13 d
Position
43.216°N · 79.208°W
Speed
0.0 kn
Course
269°
Status
Destination HAMILTON P22ETA May 2, 10:00 PMBallast · 5.0 m

Where it waited most

Most time stopped at Port Weller 7 d across 3 stays.

  1. 1
    Port Weller7 d · 3×
  2. 2
    Hamilton3 d · 2×

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 scoreMedium
64/ 100
Safety48
Compliance95
Environment48
Carbon intensity · estimatedE

This ship has no verified emissions report. We estimate a band E from its segment, size and age (95% confidence).

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

Recent port calls

AIS-derived from our live feed.

Compliance

Safety Record

Marine casualties3
  • PERSON SERIOUSLY INJURED OR KILLED - In contact with any part of the ship or its contentsSerious
    Oct 7, 2025Goderich, ONTARIO (ON)

    On 07 October 2025, the bulk carrier "NORTHERN VENTURE" reported that 2 crew members were injured while performing repairs to a cargo conveyor in Goderich, ON. The local Fire Department transported them to a hospital.

  • RISK OF COLLISION (near collision) - With another vessel or other floating objectMinor
    Jul 26, 2025Windsor, ONTARIO (ON)

    On 26 July 2025, the self-discharging bulk carrier "NORTHERN VENTURE", reported having experienced a close quarters situation with the passenger yacht "OVATION" in the Detroit River Flemming Channel abeam Windsor, ON. The bulk carrier had to reduce speed to avoid a collision.

  • TOTAL FAILURE OF ANY MACHINERY OR TECHNICAL SYSTEMMinor
    Jan 4, 2025Colchester, ON, ONTARIO (ON)

    On 04 January 2025, the bulk carrier "NORTHERN VENTURE" reported having experienced a problem with its a main engine off Colchester, ON. The vessel proceeded to the nearest anchorage to investigate the issue.

Recorded marine occurrences naming this vessel.

Operational Status

Activity

Idle / at anchorFix within the last day

Stopped, anchored or moored on its latest broadcast — parked, not necessarily withdrawn.

Speed
0.0 kn
Last broadcast
within the last day
Hull age
28 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

1 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).

  1. op. unknown
    In port since

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.

Composite Risk

Risk Score

65/100
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 age92
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 draughtHigh confidence
~19,651t at summer draught

Bulker · summer draught 8.9 m · 28.1 t per cm immersion

Estimated intake by draught
6.23 m~12,143 t
6.68 m~13,395 t
7.12 m~14,646 t
7.57 m~15,897 t
8.01 m~17,148 t
8.46 m~18,400 t
8.9 m~19,651 t

Estimate only — modelled from deadweight (hull geometry) 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=1.58 is consistent with declared bulker

DWT/GT 1.58Beam/LOA 0.142Declared 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.

Commercial

Voyage Estimate

From 19,651 DWT · ~17 t/day · bunker @ live VLSFO.

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