MV Berge Istra
ship
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- MV Berge Istra
- IMO number
- 7123540
- MMSI
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- Call sign
- —
- Flag
- —
- Vessel type
- ship
- Gross tonnage
- 115,441
- Deadweight (DWT)
- —
- Length overall
- 314 m
- Beam
- —
- Year built
- 1972
- Builder
- Uljanik
- Registered owner
- —
- Operator
- —
Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About MV Berge Istra
MS Berge Istra was a ship owned by Norwegian shipping company Sig.ö Bergesen d.y. and registered in Liberia, an ore-bulk-oil carrier with 227,550 tonnes deadweight (DWT). She was carrying ore from Brazil to Japan, and returning with crude oil from the Persian Gulf to Europe or America. The ship had build number 296 at the Uljanik shipyard in the port city Pula in then SFR Yugoslavia (today Croatia) where it was built in 1972. The ship was en route from Tubarão in Brazil to Japan with iron ore when contact was lost with the vessel in the Pacific (near the island of Mindanao, Philippines), the last contact was on December 30, 1975. After one week, on January 7, 1976, the ship was reported missing, but the ensuing search operation yielded no results and was called off on January 16 of that year. Thirty people lost their lives.
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is MV Berge Istra now?
- MV Berge Istra 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 Berge Istra?
- MV Berge Istra is a ship, built in 1972 by Uljanik. The vessel is 314 m long and has a gross tonnage of 115,441.
- Has MV Berge Istra been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for MV Berge Istra appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).