About ROYAL DAWN
ROYAL DAWN is a United Kingdom-flagged Container Ship registered under IMO 9509704 (MMSI 309025538) and currently associated with the Port of Port Said, Egypt. Vessels in this class belong to the broader container terminal family — operationally that means cargo handling and voyage planning are dominated by cellular container vessels equipped with twin-twenty cell guides, ranging from feeder ships of 1,000–3,000 TEU up through neo-Panamax and ultra-large container vessels exceeding 18,000 TEU. Quayside operations rely on ship-to-shore (STS) gantry cranes with outreach capable of handling 22-row-wide vessels, supported by RTGs, RMGs, or straddle carriers in the yard, and reefer plug-in capacity for refrigerated containers. She measures 225 metres in length overall by 34 metres in beam, with a gross tonnage of 179,469 GT and a deadweight of 260,100 tonnes.
The vessel is currently shown as underway, meaning her AIS transponder is reporting a course and speed consistent with passage between port calls. Her current declared estimated time of arrival is May 3, 2026 01:42 UTC, although ETAs are routinely revised in transit to reflect weather, routeing and pilot scheduling. She was built in 2012. The vessel is registered with the International Maritime Organization, whose database of registered ships and the conventions governing their operation is published at the IMO conventions library.
IMO numbers are issued by IHS Markit on behalf of the International Maritime Organization and remain attached to the hull for the lifetime of the vessel â they do not change with sale, re-flagging, or rename. MMSI numbers, in contrast, are issued by the flag state’s telecommunications administration and identify the vessel’s radio installation; an MMSI changes when a vessel changes flag. When researching an individual ship across historical records â particularly for incident investigation, port state inspection history, or insurance claims â the IMO number (9509704) is the stable identifier to anchor the search on, while the MMSI is the right key for AIS reception logs and VHF radio licensing records.
The vessel’s declared dimensions of 225 metres length overall by 34 metres beam, with 179,469 gross tonnage and 260,100 tonnes deadweight, place her in a specific size class within the global container ship fleet. These particulars determine which port berths she can use, which canals she can transit (Panama Canal locks, Suez Canal draught, the Strait of Malacca’s Malaccamax constraint), and which terminals around the world have the cranes and yard plant to work her efficiently.