MarineTraffic

MarineTraffic
Type of site
Ship tracking intelligence
Available inEnglish, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, German, French, Greek, Chinese, Norwegian, Dutch and Portuguese
HeadquartersAthens, Greece
URLwww.marinetraffic.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Users2,000,000
Launched2007; 17 years ago (2007)
Current statusOpen

MarineTraffic is a maritime analytics provider,[1] which provides real-time information on the movements of ships and the current location of ships in harbors and ports.[2] A database of information on the vessels includes for example details of the location where they were built plus dimensions of the vessels, gross tonnage and International Maritime Organisation (IMO) number. Users can submit photographs of the vessels which other users can rate.

The basic MarineTraffic service can be used without cost; more advanced functions such as satellite-based tracking are available subject to payment.[3]

The site has six million unique visitors on a monthly basis. In April 2015, the service had 600,000 registered users.[4][5]

  1. ^ Pal, Alasdair; Junayd, Mohamed (7 April 2022). "Maldives shelters sanctioned Russian billionaires' yachts". Reuters. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  2. ^ "Top 3 Websites to Track Your Ship". MarineInsight. Archived from the original on 18 November 2015. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  3. ^ "Cautiously Optimistic on MarineTraffic Internet AIS – Sail Magazine". Sail Magazine. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  4. ^ "Site gives landlubbers trove of information about ships". The Virginian-Pilot. Archived from the original on 15 June 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  5. ^ "MarineTraffic.com releases new notifications". All About Shipping. Retrieved 31 October 2015.