Ro-Ro or Container Carrier 🇨🇦 CanadaActive

OCEANEX SANDERLING

Built by Sasebo Heavy Industries in 1977

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IMO: 7603502
MMSI: 316278000
Call Sign: VOLG

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage

21,849GT

Deadweight

15,195DWT

Length Overall

193.44m

Beam

27m

Draught

8.2m

Year Built

1977

Live Tracking

Current Position

Live AIS · 2 min ago

Track · last 14 d

Position

44.620°N · 63.511°W

Speed

0.0 kn

Course

108°

Status

Under way using engine

Destination AUTOPORTETA Oct 14, 09:00 PMLaden · 8.0 m

Where it waited most

Most time stopped at Halifax: 16 d across 29 stays.

1
Halifax16 d · 29×
2
St John's8 d · 10×

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

Halifax
Oct 14, 2026
In port
Halifax
Oct 14, 2026
0.4 d
St John's
Oct 11, 2026
1.3 d
Halifax
Oct 8, 2026
1.0 d
Halifax
Oct 7, 2026
1.2 d

AIS-derived from our live feed.

Compliance

Safety Record

Marine casualties8

Striking/AllisionSerious
Jun 13, 2024Halifax, NOVA SCOTIA (NS)
On 13 June 2024, the container ship "OCEANEX SANDERLING", while under the conduct of a pilot, reported having struck the wharf while berthing in Fairview Cove off Halifax, NS. Minor damage to the wharf was reported and the vessel resumed its voyage.
FireSerious
Sep 11, 2021Halifax, NOVA SCOTIA (NS)
On 11 September 2021, the general cargo ro-ro vessel "OCEANEX SANDERLING", with 21 people on board, reported having sustained a fire in its exhaust stack, 15 nautical miles SSE of Halifax, NS. The crew members were able to extinguish the fire and the vessel returned to Halifax, NS for repairs. No injuries were reported.
Near-MissMinor
Sep 8, 2020Chebucto Head, NS, NOVA SCOTIA (NS)
On 08 September 2020, the cargo vessel "OCEANEX SANDERLING" reported a close quarters situation with a kayak 1.6 nautical miles east of Chebucto Head, NS, in the approaches to Halifax Harbour.
Damage/UnseaworthySerious
Apr 19, 2017Cahill Point, NL., NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR (NL)
On 19 April 2017, the ro-ro cargo vessel "OCEANEX SANDERLING", with 23 people on board, reported ice damage to its bulbous bow. The vessel continued the transit to the next port. There were no injuries or pollution reported.
Damage/UnseaworthySerious
Apr 6, 2017St. John's, NL, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR (NL)
On 06 April 2017, the cargo vessel "OCEANEX SANDERLING", with 23 people on board, reported damage to its bulbous bow after encountering ice subsequent to departure from St. John's, NL. No injuries or pollution were reported.
Personnel CasualtySerious
Feb 11, 2017Halterm dock, Halifax, NS, NOVA SCOTIA (NS)
On 11 February 2017, the cargo vessel "OCEANEX SANDERLING" reported that a crewmember sustained a serious injury while loading cargo at the Halterm dock in Halifax Harbour, NS.
Near-MissMinor
Jul 29, 2016Herring Cove, NS, NOVA SCOTIA (NS)
On 29 July 2016, the cargo vessel "OCEANEX SANDERLING" reported a close quarters situation with the pleasure craft "THE LAST ONE" in the approaches to Halifax Harbour, NS.
Near-MissMinor
Aug 5, 2013HALIFAX HARBOUR, NS, NOVA SCOTIA (NS)
On 05 August 2013, M/V "OCEANEX SANDERLING" had its bow crossed by the S/V "MISTY DAWN" in Halifax Harbour, NS. Vessel proceeded to its docking station and no further action required. No injuries, pollution or damage reported.

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

Nav status

Under way using engine

Last broadcast

within the last day

Hull age

49 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).

St John's
no cargo change
→ · 32 h in port· draught 8.0→8.0 m
St John's
no cargo change
→ · 33 h in port· draught 8.4→8.4 m
St John's
no cargo change
→ · 32 h in port· draught 8.0→8.4 m
St John's
no cargo change
→ · 32 h in port· draught 8.0→8.0 m
St John's
no cargo change
→ · 29 h in port· draught 8.0→8.0 m
St John's
no cargo change
→ · 13 h in port· draught 8.3→8.3 m
St John's
no cargo change
→ · 28 h in port· draught 8.6→8.3 m
Halifax
no cargo change
→ · 24 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
St John's
no cargo change
→ · 11 h in port· draught 8.3→8.2 m
St John's
no cargo change
→ · 26 h in port· draught 8.5→8.5 m
St John's
no cargo change
→ · 29 h in port· draught 8.5→8.5 m
Halifax
no cargo change
→ · 2.1 days in port· draught 8.5→8.5 m
St John's
no cargo change
→ · 10 h in port· draught 8.5→8.5 m
Halifax
no cargo change
→ · 29 h in port· draught 8.5→8.2 m
St John's
no cargo change
→ · 32 h in port· draught 8.4→8.1 m
St John's
no cargo change
→ · 25 h in port· draught 8.4→8.4 m
St John's
no cargo change
→ · 28 h in port· draught 8.4→8.4 m
Halifax
no cargo change
→ · 42 h in port· draught 8.2→8.2 m
St John's
no cargo change
→ · 15 h in port· draught 8.5→8.2 m
Halifax
no cargo change
→ · 28 h in port· draught 8.0→8.0 m
Halifax
no cargo change
→ · 24 h in port· draught 8.0→8.0 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

2 ports · 23.9 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.

St John's· Canada
15.6 days
15 calls · 25 h avg
Halifax· Canada
8.2 days
6 calls · 33 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

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 draughtHigh confidence

~15,195t at summer draught

Container · summer draught 8.2 m · 32 t per cm immersion

Estimated intake by draught

5.74 m~7,319 t

6.15 m~8,632 t

6.56 m~9,944 t

6.97 m~11,257 t

7.38 m~12,570 t

7.79 m~13,882 t

8.2 m~15,195 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

Container

→

Inferred from size

Container

density DWT/GT=0.70 is consistent with declared container

DWT/GT 0.7Beam/LOA 0.14Declared type: Ro-Ro or Container 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: Ro-Ro
Deadweight: 15,195 DWT
Speed: 16 kn
Fuel 1 at sea: 32 t/day

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

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