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General Cargo🇨🇦 CanadaActive

BLAIR MCKEIL

IMO
9546045
MMSI
316040355
Call Sign
VCBM

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage
9,286GT
Deadweight
14,600DWT
Length Overall
139.95m
Beam
21m
Draught
6.8m
Year Built
2010

Live Tracking

Current Position

Live AIS · 10 h ago
Track · last 13 d
Position
45.259°N · 73.962°W
Speed
9.0 kn
Course
217°
Status
Under way using engine
Destination USTOLETA Jul 3, 11:00 AMPart-laden · 5.5 m

Where it waited most

Most time stopped at Hamilton 3 d across 1 stay.

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  4. 4

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

Trois Rivieres

CanadaAIS: CATRR
Distance
25 nm
sea route
ETA (computed)
at 13 kn
Speed now
13.4 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 scoreMedium
77/ 100
Safety68
Compliance95
Environment68
Carbon intensity · 2024C
867t CO₂
AER (CO₂/capacity·nm)
9.6
Fuel burned
270 t
Technical
EEXI (9.47 gCO₂/t·nm)

Verified reported figure. Band is peer-relative, not official IMO CII.

Recent port calls

AIS-derived from our live feed.

Compliance

Safety Record

Marine casualties6
  • STRIKING - Allision with a fixed object (striking - includes berthed/docked vessels)Serious
    Dec 7, 2022Îlot de la Baronnie, QUEBEC (QC)

    On 07 December 2022, the cargo vessel "BLAIR MCKEIL", while under the conduct of a pilot, reported having collided with the dock due to engine problems at section 52 of the Port of Montreal in Montréal, QC. The pilot ordered the assistance of tugs and proceeded to an anchorage.

  • RISK OF COLLISION (near collision) - With another vessel or other floating objectMinor
    May 12, 2022Montréal, QUEBEC (QC)

    On 12 May 2022, the general cargo vessel "BLAIR MCKEIL", while departing under the conduct of a pilot, reported a close quarters situation with the pleasure craft "THEODORE" in the St. Lawrence River off section 71 in Montréal, QC. The general cargo vessel took evasive action to prevent the collision.

  • STRIKING - Allision with a fixed object (striking - includes berthed/docked vessels)Serious
    Oct 4, 2021Port Colborne, ONTARIO (ON)

    On 04 October 2021, the bulk carrier "BLAIR MCKEIL", while under the conduct of a pilot, reported striking the upper approach wall of the Welland Canal's Lock No 7 in Port Colborne, ON. Upon berthing in the lock, damage to both the vessel and the dock was reported.

  • PERSON (CREW MEMBER) PHYSICAL INCAPACITATIONMinor
    Jun 11, 2021Conception Bay South, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR (NL)

    On 11 June 2021, the general cargo "BLAIR MCKEIL" reported one of its crew members having sustained a minor injury while anchored off Conception Bay South, NL. The crew member was evacuated to the hospital for treatment.

  • RISK OF COLLISION (near collision) - With another vessel or other floating objectMinor
    May 26, 2020Verchères, QC, QUEBEC (QC)

    On 26 May 2020, the general cargo vessel "BLAIR MCKEIL" reported a close quarters situation with the pleasure craft off Verchères, QC.

  • TOTAL FAILURE OF ANY MACHINERY OR TECHNICAL SYSTEMMinor
    May 11, 2020Quebec City, QC, QUEBEC (QC)

    On 11 May 2020, the general cargo vessel "BLAIR MCKEIL" experienced a lost of propulsion and was disabled, while approaching the wharf 26 in Quebec City, QC. Minutes later, the situation came back to normal and the vessel continued its maneuvers.

Recorded marine occurrences naming this vessel.

Operational Status

Activity

Under wayFix 2 days ago

Making way at sea speed on its latest broadcast.

Speed
13.4 kn
Nav status
Under way using engine
Last broadcast
2 days ago
Hull age
16 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. no cargo change
    · 4 h in port· draught 8.18.1 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

1 port · 4 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.

  1. Port Colborne· Canada
    4 h
    1 call · 4 h avg

Based on 1 completed call observed since — open calls (no departure yet) are excluded. The distribution sharpens as AIS history accrues.

Composite Risk

Risk Score

36/100
Moderate riskLow confidence40% component coverage

Some elevated factors — typically age or a lower-graded flag — but no acute ship-specific flag.

PSC detentionsno data
Sanctions exposureno data
Dark-fleet signalno data
Hull age44
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
~14,600t at summer draught

Other · summer draught 6.8 m · 28.8 t per cm immersion

Estimated intake by draught
4.76 m~8,716 t
5.1 m~9,697 t
5.44 m~10,677 t
5.78 m~11,658 t
6.12 m~12,639 t
6.46 m~13,619 t
6.8 m~14,600 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.

Commercial

Voyage Estimate

From 14,600 DWT · ~17 t/day · bunker @ live VLSFO.

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