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 · 6 min ago

Track · last 13 d

Position

44.666°N · 63.628°W

Speed

0.0 kn

Course

0°

Status

Moored

Destination CAHALETA Jun 30, 01:00 PMLaden · 8.2 m

Where it waited most

Most time stopped at Halifax — 5 d across 6 stays.

1
Halifax5 d · 6×
2
St John's14 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.

Underway to

Halifax

CanadaAIS: CAHAL

Distance

518 nm

sea route

ETA (computed)

—

at 16 kn

Speed now

15.9 kn

Under way using engine

Crew ETA

not reported

Resolved from the live AIS destination. Distance is the real sea route (around land and through canals); the computed ETA is at the vessel’s passage speed. A destination is the crew’s stated intent, not a confirmed fixture.

Intelligence

Risk & Sustainability

Risk scoreHigh

58/ 100

Safety38

Compliance95

Environment38

Recent port calls

Halifax
Jun 30, 2026
In port
St John's
Jun 28, 2026
0.6 d
Halifax
Jun 25, 2026
1.1 d
Halifax
Jun 24, 2026
1.3 d
St John's
Jun 21, 2026
0.3 d

AIS-derived from our live feed.

Compliance

Safety Record

Marine casualties8

STRIKING - Allision with a fixed object (striking - includes berthed/docked vessels)Serious
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.
RISK OF COLLISION (near collision) - With another vessel or other floating objectMinor
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.
SUSTAINS DAMAGE RENDER UNSEAWORTHY/UNFIT FOR PURPOSE - Unfit for purpose - ice, weather, etc.Serious
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.
SUSTAINS DAMAGE RENDER UNSEAWORTHY/UNFIT FOR PURPOSE - Unfit for purpose - ice, weather, etc.Serious
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.
PERSON SERIOUSLY INJURED OR KILLED - In contact with any part of the ship or its contentsSerious
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.
RISK OF COLLISION (near collision) - With another vessel or other floating objectMinor
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.
RISK OF COLLISION (near collision) - With another vessel or other floating objectMinor
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

Under wayFix 1 day ago

Making way at sea speed on its latest broadcast.

Speed

15.9 kn

Nav status

Under way using engine

Last broadcast

1 day ago

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

3 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
→ · 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 · 2.8 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.

Halifax· Canada
2.2 days
2 calls · 26 h avg
St John's· Canada
15 h
1 call · 15 h avg

Based on 3 completed calls observed since — open calls (no departure yet) are excluded. The distribution sharpens as AIS history accrues.

Composite Risk

Risk Score

70/100

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 age100

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

~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.

Commercial