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KING SEAWAYS

Built by Schichau Seebeckwerft in 1987

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IMO: 8502406
MMSI: 220449000
Call Sign: OVOL2

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage

31,788GT

Deadweight

3,471DWT

Length Overall

162.73m

Beam

27.6m

Draught

6.1m

Year Built

1987

Live Tracking

Current Position

Live AIS · 5 min ago

Track · last 13 d

Position

54.922°N · 1.129°W

Speed

18.0 kn

Course

121°

Status

Under way using engine

Destination NLIJMETA Jul 2, 07:45 AMLaden · 6.2 m

Where it waited most

Most time stopped at Tees — 44 h across 6 stays.

1
Tees44 h · 6×
2
Port of Amsterdam37 h · 5×

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

Carbon intensity · 2024B

40,549t CO₂

AER (CO₂/capacity·nm): 14.5
Fuel burned: 12,863 t
Technical: EEXI (29.67 gCO₂/t·nm)

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

Recent port calls

North Shields
Jul 1, 2026
0.3 d
Ijmuiden
Jun 30, 2026
0.3 d
North Shields
Jun 29, 2026
0.3 d
Ijmuiden
Jun 28, 2026
0.3 d
North Shields
Jun 27, 2026
0.3 d

AIS-derived from our live feed.

Operational Status

Activity

Idle / at anchorFix within the last day

Stopped, anchored or moored on its latest broadcast — parked, not necessarily withdrawn.

Speed

0.0 kn

Nav status

Moored

Last broadcast

within the last day

Hull age

39 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

11 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).

Howdon
no cargo change
→ · 8 h in port· draught 6.2→6.2 m
Ijmuiden
no cargo change
→ · 8 h in port· draught 6.2→6.2 m
Howdon
no cargo change
→ · 7 h in port· draught 6.2→6.2 m
Ijmuiden
no cargo change
→ · 8 h in port· draught 6.2→6.2 m
Howdon
no cargo change
→ · 8 h in port· draught 6.2→6.2 m
Ijmuiden
no cargo change
→ · 8 h in port· draught 6.2→6.2 m
North Shields
no cargo change
→ · 7 h in port· draught 6.2→6.2 m
Howdon
no cargo change
→ · 7 h in port· draught 6.2→6.2 m
Ijmuiden
no cargo change
→ · 8 h in port· draught 6.2→6.2 m
North Shields
no cargo change
→ · 8 h in port· draught 6.2→6.2 m
Howdon
no cargo change
→ · 8 h in port· draught 6.2→6.2 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

3 ports · 3.5 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.

Howdon· United Kingdom
37 h
5 calls · 7 h avg
Ijmuiden· Netherlands
32 h
4 calls · 8 h avg
North Shields· United Kingdom
15 h
2 calls · 7 h avg

Based on 11 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

~3,471t at summer draught

Other · summer draught 6.1 m · 10.7 t per cm immersion

Estimated intake by draught

4.27 m~1,515 t

4.57 m~1,841 t

4.88 m~2,167 t

5.19 m~2,493 t

5.49 m~2,819 t

5.79 m~3,145 t

6.1 m~3,471 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

Load port

Discharge port

CargotFreight$/tFrom 3,471 DWT · ~9 t/day · bunker @ live VLSFO.

Overview

About This Vessel

MS King Seaways is a cruiseferry operated and owned by the Danish shipping company DFDS Seaways on a route connecting North Shields, effectively the port of Newcastle upon Tyne, (being 6 miles to the east of the city), England to IJmuiden in the Netherlands. She was built in 1987 as MS Nils Holgersson by Seebeckwerft, Bremerhaven, West Germany for TT-Line. Between 1993 and 2006 the ship was named MV Val de Loire, owned by Brittany Ferries and used on traffic across the English Channel. A DFDS vessel since 2006, she was originally named MS King of Scandinavia, before being given her current name in 2011.