Self Discharging Bulk Carrier🇺🇸 USAActive

SAM LAUD

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IMO: 7390210
MMSI: 366938760
Call Sign: WZC7602

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage

11,619GT

Deadweight

23,857DWT

Length Overall

193m

Beam

20.73m

Draught

6.7m

Year Built

1975

Live Tracking

Current Position

Live AIS · 1 d ago

Track · last 10 d

Position

42.079°N · 83.131°W

Speed

7.6 kn

Course

186°

Status

Under way using engine

Destination CLEVELAND EAEETA Jun 30, 10:30 PMLaden · 6.4 m

Where it waited most

Most time stopped at Rouge River — 12 h across 2 stays.

1
Rouge River12 h · 2×
2
Mackinac Island10 h
3
Waukegan3 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

Rouge River
Jun 25, 2026
0.1 d
Rouge River
Jun 25, 2026
0.5 d
Rouge River
Jun 25, 2026
0.0 d
Waukegan
Jun 21, 2026
0.3 d
Waukegan
Jun 21, 2026
0.0 d

AIS-derived from our live feed.

Compliance

Safety Record

Marine casualties2

GROUNDING - Under power (non-intentional)Serious
Oct 8, 2022Windsor, ONTARIO (ON)
On 08 October 2022, the self-unloading bulk carrier "SAM LAUD" reported having run aground in the Detroit River off Peche Island, ON. The vessel was refloated with the assistance of the service vessels ''LEONARD M'' and ''STORMONT''.
PERSON SERIOUSLY INJURED OR KILLED - In contact with any part of the ship or its contentsSerious
Apr 3, 2007THUNDER BAY HARBOUR, ON, ONTARIO (ON)
On 03 April 2007, while at anchor in Thunder Bay, On., a crew member fell in the engine room of the bulk carrier "SAM LAUD". He suffered contusions to the head and fore arm. He was transferred by ambulance to a local hospital.

Recorded marine occurrences naming this vessel.

Operational Status

Activity

Under wayFix within the last day

Making way at sea speed on its latest broadcast.

Speed

7.7 kn

Nav status

Under way using engine

Last broadcast

within the last day

Hull age

51 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

2 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).

Rouge River
no cargo change
→ · 16 h in port· draught 6.4→6.4 m
Waukegan
no cargo change
→ · 9 h in port· draught 6.4→6.4 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 · 25 h 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.

Rouge River· USA
16 h
1 call · 16 h avg
Waukegan· USA
9 h
1 call · 9 h avg

Based on 2 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 draughtMedium confidence

~23,857t at summer draught

Bulker · summer draught 6.7 m · 33.1 t per cm immersion

Estimated intake by draught

4.69 m~17,194 t

5.03 m~18,305 t

5.36 m~19,415 t

5.7 m~20,526 t

6.03 m~21,636 t

6.37 m~22,747 t

6.7 m~23,857 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=2.05 is consistent with declared bulker

DWT/GT 2.05Beam/LOA 0.107Declared 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

Load port

Discharge port

CargotFreight$/tFrom 23,857 DWT · ~17 t/day · bunker @ live VLSFO.

Overview

About This Vessel

M/V Sam Laud is a diesel-powered Lake freighter owned by the American Steamship Company now a part of the Rand Logistics, Inc. and operated by Grand River Navigation. This vessel was built in 1975 at Bay Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin and included self-unloading technology. The ship is 634 feet 10 inches (193.50 m) long and 68.1 feet (20.8 m) wide, with a carrying capacity of 24,300 tons (at midsummer draft), iron ore pellets, coal, limestone, and gypsum.