- IMO
- 6804848
- MMSI
- 316001834
- Call Sign
- VGNB
Technical Specifications
Key Figures
Live Tracking
Current Position
Where it waited most
Most time stopped at Port Colborne — 2 d across 2 stays.
- 1Port Colborne2 d · 2×
- 2Saint-Catharines4 h · 13×
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.
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
- Saint-Catharines0.0 dJun 30, 2026
- Saint-Catharines0.1 dJun 30, 2026
- Saint-Catharines0.0 dJun 30, 2026
- Saint-Catharines0.0 dJun 30, 2026
- Port Weller0.1 dJun 30, 2026
AIS-derived from our live feed.
Compliance
Safety Record
- INTENTIONAL BEACHING/GROUNDING/ANCHORING to avoid occurrenceMinorMay 4, 2025Erie Canal, Fairport, New York, USA, Outside Provincial Boundaries
On 04 May 2025, the bulk carrier "FRONTENAC", was grounded intentionally following loss of the bow thruster while docking at Fairport, New York. The vessel went to anchor to trouble shoot the bow thruster issues and got underway later the same day.
- RISK OF COLLISION (near collision) - With another vessel or other floating objectMinorNov 9, 2022Bassett Island, ONTARIO (ON)
On 09 November 2022, the self-discharging bulk carrier "FRONTENAC" reported a close quarters situation with an unidentified fishing vessel while navigating the Southeast bend of St. Clair River, ON. The vessel took evasive action to avoid collision.
- BOTTOM CONTACTMinorJul 4, 2021Thessalon, ONTARIO (ON)
On 04 July 2021, the bulk carrier "FRONTENAC" reported having made bottom contact while departing a dock in Thessalon, ON. No damage or pollution was reported.
- TOTAL FAILURE OF ANY MACHINERY OR TECHNICAL SYSTEMMinorJan 8, 2021Kingsville, ON, ONTARIO (ON)
On 08 January 2021, the bulk carrier "FRONTENAC" sustained an electrical power failure while transiting Pelee Passage, ON. The vessel anchored 7.2 nautical miles south of Kingsville, ON. The crew carried out repairs and the vessel later resumed its voyage.
- TOTAL FAILURE OF ANY MACHINERY OR TECHNICAL SYSTEMMinorAug 7, 2019Pointe-des-Monts, QC, QUEBEC (QC)
On 07 August 2019, the bulk carrier "FRONTENAC" sustained a failure of its propulsion cooling system off Pointe-des-Monts, QC. The vessel proceeded at reduced speed to Baie-Comeau, QC where the crew carried out the repairs. The vessel later resumed its voyage.
- FIRESeriousMay 11, 2018Tobermory, ON, ONTARIO (ON)
On 11 May 2018, the bulk carrier "FRONTENAC" reported a fire on board off Tobermory, ON in the Georgian Bay on Lake Huron. The fire was extinguished by the crew.
- TOTAL FAILURE OF ANY MACHINERY OR TECHNICAL SYSTEMMinorOct 3, 2016Amherstburg, ON, ONTARIO (ON)
On 03 October 2016, in the Amherstburg channel, Detroit River, ON, the bulk carrier "FRONTENAC" sustained an engine failure due to a loss of compressed air control. The vessel regained control shortly afterwards and resumed its voyage. No pollution reported.
- GROUNDING - Under power (non-intentional)SeriousOct 21, 2015St. Clair Shores, MI, USA, Outside Provincial Boundaries
On 21 October 2015, the bulk carrier "FRONTENAC" ran aground on the St. Clair River 8 nautical miles ENE of St. Clair Shores, MI, USA. The vessel is currently awaiting tug assistance.
Recorded marine occurrences naming this vessel.
Operational Status
Activity
Making way at sea speed on its latest broadcast.
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-detectedArrivals, 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).
- no cargo change→ · 2 h in port· draught 7.5→7.5 m
- no cargo change→ · 15 h in port· draught 7.5→7.1 m· low confidence
- no cargo change→ · 2.1 days in port· draught 7.3→7.1 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
2 ports · 2.9 days totalTime-in-port summed by port from the AIS-detected port-call history — the ports this vessel has spent the most time at, longest first.
- Port Colborne· Canada2.2 days2 calls · 27 h avg
- Alexandria Bay· USA15 h1 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
Multiple adverse factors, or a hard ship-specific signal, lift this hull above the fleet norm.
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
Bulker · summer draught 7.1 m · 46.2 t per cm immersion
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.
density DWT/GT=1.48 is consistent with declared bulker
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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