Features
Track 2.3M vessels. Know who owns, manages, and moves them.
Vessel Hunter integrates real-time AIS with mapped ownership, compliance history, port activity, and operational intelligence. Not just positions: 2.3M vessel records, 100,000+ IMO-registered hulls, 29,000+ ports, 290,000+ inspections, and the contacts who actually decide.
Track every vessel
Live and historic AIS
A corpus of 2.3M vessel records, with live position, course and speed refreshed continuously for 300,000+ of them, through reliable coverage from coastal receivers and satellites. From mega-containerships to regional tankers.
Scrub back day by day through a clean position history, replay exactly where a ship has been, and match that against port filings, owner records and inspection history — the complete operational picture in one view.
Beyond AIS tracking
When a transponder goes dark, by accident or on purpose, you are not left in the dark with it. Our algorithm rebuilds the likely route from port filings, radar hits, vessel history and class records, and shows it with a confidence score and the evidence behind it.
29,000+ ports tracked
Open any port and see live vessel activity: what is alongside, at anchor or inbound, with arrival history, dwell times, and the agents working each berth. Draw a radius around your yard and get alerts the moment a target ship arrives, departs or ties up.
Know the whole story
Every ship resolves to a single record, pulled together from dozens of sources and kept current as she changes hands.
The vessel dossier
One record per ship, with everything we hold on her. Click a vessel anywhere and the dossier opens: specs, engine, ownership, inspections, dry dock, casualties and class.
Identity and dimensions, normalised across every source.
- IMO
- MMSI
- Call sign
- Flag
- Type
- Build year
- Builder
- DWT
- GT
- LOA
- Beam
- Draught
- Class society
- Manager
- Operator
Mapped ownership (79,000+ vessels)
Ownership in shipping is hard to trace and often obscured. We map how the beneficial owner, registered owner, manager and operator connect, across 79,000+ vessels and 400,000+ ownership links, showing the fleet structure and the contacts inside each entity, from the individual ship up through the group.
Risk and compliance (290K+ inspections, 7,100+ detentions)
We flag ships that are sanctioned (OFAC and EU), detained under Paris MoU, or banned. Beyond that: 290,000+ port state control inspections, 7,100+ detention records, 32,000+ casualties, and class society conditions mapped to each vessel. Check a fleet or company against the compliance record before you quote, charter or call.
Market intelligence
Roll a fleet up into counts and tonnage by type, flag, build year, owner country and class, with the sales and ownership changes over time. Watch a segment or a competitor move month to month.
For sale and demolition
We pull together vessels for sale, auction lots and demolition listings from brokerage, judicial sale and recycling sources, each tied back to its owner and live profile. See which ships are on the market, then reach the owner first.
Reach the decision maker
Vessel Hunter does not stop at the vessel. We bring you the people behind the companies that run them: verified emails and direct phone numbers for the decision makers, from board members to the technical superintendent, the procurement lead and the operations manager. It is a contact layer we expand and re-check every day, so when a ship changes hands the line you call is still the one that picks up.
Stay alert
Watchlists and alerts
Build watchlists for a fleet, owner, port, route or dark fleet, and get an alert the moment a ship comes inbound, ties up alongside, departs, nears a dry dock window or drops off AIS. Each one lands in your inbox or as a push on the app, with quiet hours and a daily digest when you want it.
Verified lists
Put the vessels, owners or ports you care about into a custom list, or start from our ready-made verified lists, then point your watchlists and alerts straight at it. As ships change hands the list keeps up, so the book you work from never goes stale.
Reports
Export the record as a report, straight from the database. Roll it all into one document, or pull compliance, dry dock activity and casualty history on their own, ready for the review, the board pack or the customer call.
Security and audit log
We follow SOC 2-aligned controls, with SOC 2 Type II certification in progress. Every action is logged, and access is scoped by role, so you and your team see only what you should. A custom DPA and SSO are available on request, and your data, along with the contacts you reveal, stays yours.
Your universal data partner
Vessel Hunter runs in any browser, with nothing to install. Native apps for iPhone, iPad and Android, plus an Apple Watch companion, are on the way: a push the moment a target ship hits your zone, and a call to the operator in one tap.
