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KATHY MCKEIL

Built by Alabama Shipyard in 1998

IMO
9127198
MMSI
316006868
Call Sign
VDAN

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage
11,285GT
Deadweight
16,775DWT
Length Overall
179.32m
Beam
23.28m
Draught
6.9m
Year Built
1998

Live Tracking

Current Position

Live AIS · 6 min ago
Track · last 13 d
Position
44.345°N · 75.919°W
Speed
10.4 kn
Course
32°
Status
Under way using engine
Destination QUEBECETA Jul 2, 08:00 PMLaden · 8.0 m

Where it waited most

Most time stopped at Thunder Bay 30 h across 5 stays.

  1. 1
    Thunder Bay30 h · 5×
  2. 2

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

Quebec

CanadaAIS: QUEBEC
Distance
498 nm
sea route
ETA (computed)
at 13 kn
Speed now
12.7 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
64/ 100
Safety48
Compliance95
Environment48
Recent port calls

AIS-derived from our live feed.

Compliance

Safety Record

Marine casualties8
  • PERSON OVERBOARDMinor
    Jul 3, 2025Thunder Bay, ONTARIO (ON)

    On 03 July 2025, the general cargo "KATHY MCKEIL", with 17 people onboard, reported one of its crew members fell overboard while using their landing boom during berthing operations at the Superior Elevator ULC dock in Thunder Bay, ON. The crew member swam ashore and reported no injuries.

  • PERSON SERIOUSLY INJURED OR KILLED - In contact with any part of the ship or its contentsSerious
    Jun 26, 2025Windsor, ONTARIO (ON)

    On 26 June 2025, the general cargo ship "KATHY MCKEIL", with 16 people on board, reported that a crew member fell onto the main deck while sweeping cargo residue off a closed cargo hold hatch cover at the ADM Terminal in Windsor, ON. The injured crew member was evacuated by ambulance to the local hospital.

  • COLLISION - Struck by vesselModerate
    May 7, 2019Sainte-Catherine Lock, Sainte-Catherine, QC., QUEBEC (QC)

    On 07 May 2019, the downbound bulk carrier “FEDERAL BALTIC” struck the upbound products tanker “ALGOSEA” in the St. Lawrence Seaway South shore canal off Chateauguay, QC. The vessels were both under the conduct of a pilot at the time. Minor damage was reported to both vessels; there were no injuries or pollution reported.

  • TOTAL FAILURE OF ANY MACHINERY OR TECHNICAL SYSTEMMinor
    Apr 10, 2019Lavaltrie, QC., QUEBEC (QC)

    On 10 April 2019, the tanker "ALGOSEA" reported a machinery failure and had to stop in the St. Lawrence River off Lavaltrie, QC. The crew carried out repairs and the vessel resumed its voyage.

  • TOTAL FAILURE OF ANY MACHINERY OR TECHNICAL SYSTEMMinor
    Dec 23, 2018Port Weller, ON, ONTARIO (ON)

    On 23 December 2018, the products tanker "ALGOSEA" reported machinery failure on the Lake Ontario and had to anchor off Port Weller, ON.

  • INTENTIONAL BEACHING/GROUNDING/ANCHORING to avoid occurrenceModerate
    Jan 19, 2017Sombra, ON, ONTARIO (ON)

    On 19 January 2017, the products tanker "ALGOSEA" reported a failure of its propulsion gearbox and proceeded to an anchorage on the St. Clair River, ON.

  • INTENTIONAL BEACHING/GROUNDING/ANCHORING to avoid occurrenceModerate
    Jan 17, 2017Long Point, ON, ONTARIO (ON)

    On 17 January 2017, the products tanker "ALGOSEA" reported a failure of its propulsion gearbox and proceeded to an anchorage off Long Point on Lake Erie, ON.

  • TOTAL FAILURE OF ANY MACHINERY OR TECHNICAL SYSTEMMinor
    Dec 11, 2016Port Dover, ON, ONTARIO (ON)

    On 11 December 2016, the product tanker "ALGOSEA" reported a main cooling system blocked by mussels and fish while transiting on Lake Erie, ON. The vessel anchored in Long Point Bay, ON. The vessel resumed its transit after repairs were carried out.

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
12.6 kn
Nav status
Under way using engine
Last broadcast
within the last day
Hull age
28 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
    · 2 h in port· draught 6.26.2 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 · 2 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. Sarnia· Canada
    2 h
    1 call · 2 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

65/100
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 age92
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
~16,775t at summer draught

Other · summer draught 6.9 m · 36.4 t per cm immersion

Estimated intake by draught
4.83 m~9,233 t
5.18 m~10,490 t
5.52 m~11,747 t
5.87 m~13,004 t
6.21 m~14,261 t
6.56 m~15,518 t
6.9 m~16,775 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.

Commercial

Voyage Estimate

From 16,775 DWT · ~17 t/day · bunker @ live VLSFO.

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