MV Kooringa
ship
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- MV Kooringa
- IMO number
- 6409715
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- Vessel type
- ship
- Gross tonnage
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- Deadweight (DWT)
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Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About MV Kooringa
MV Kooringa was the world's first fully cellular purpose-built container ship and was built by Australian company, Associated Steamships in partnership with McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co and commissioned in May 1964. It was built at the New South Wales State Dockyard in Newcastle as a "custom-designed cellular container ship to handle 20-ton containers". The 6,750-ton ship was designed to handle 10,000 tons of containerised cargo in 36 hours by being loaded and unloaded simultaneously. It entered the Melbourne-Fremantle trade in 1964, arriving at Fremantle Harbour on 19 June that year. Two more purpose built container ships, MV Kanimbla and MV Manoora joined the regular service in 1969 and the three ships continued to operate until 1975 when competition from rail freight made the service non-viable. The ship was named after the now closed mining town of Kooringa in South Australia.
Summary from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA.
Frequently asked questions
- Where is MV Kooringa now?
- MV Kooringa has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is MV Kooringa?
- MV Kooringa is a ship.
- Has MV Kooringa been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for MV Kooringa appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).