One workspace for AIS, vessel records, and the people behind every ship.

Live AIS tracking

Live positions, course, speed, and navigational status for every commercial vessel broadcasting AIS, fused from terrestrial receivers and satellite providers so coastal and deep ocean coverage stay continuous. Vessel Hunter normalises the feed into a clean record with consistent IMO, MMSI, call sign, type, flag, and dimensional data, so you can build watchlists and route filters without first wrangling raw NMEA messages.

Routes, waypoints, deviations, and predictive ETAs are derived on top of the AIS layer. Filter inbound traffic by country, region, zone, port, terminal, or by your own custom geofence. Every approaching ship is matched against your fleet list and surfaced in the approaching ports inbox the moment it crosses the radius.

Beyond AIS: ghost vessel tracking

AIS transponders go dark. Vessels skip a hop, drop into a coverage gap, or, in the dark fleet case, switch off deliberately. Vessel Hunter does not stop tracking when the transponder does. We reconstruct an inferred route from port state filings, satellite radar (SAR) hits, bunker invoices, crew list submissions, and class survey records, and surface it on the vessel dossier with a confidence score and an evidence chain so analysts can see exactly which signals support the reconstruction.

Beyond AIS reconstruction draws on the same methods used in dark fleet and sanctions compliance monitoring, available to every Vessel Hunter customer by default. Read more in the data sources reference or see how it powers port agent workflows.

The vessel dossier

One record per ship, every layer that matters. Click any vessel on the map, in a watchlist, or in the approaching-ports inbox and the dossier opens with seven tabs of indexed data:

• Specs: IMO, MMSI, call sign, flag, type, build year, builder, DWT, GT, LOA/beam/draught, class society, manager, and operator.
• Engine: make, model, power output, RPM, fuel type, and auxiliary equipment. Drives the spare parts supplier set and the technical superintendent on the hook.
• Owner & contacts: beneficial owner, registered owner, ISM manager, technical and commercial entities, plus the verified people behind each (procurement, operations, technical, agency).
• Inspections: port state control history with authority, deficiencies, and detention outcome.
• Dry dock: past yards, scope of work, cost where disclosed, and the predicted next survey window.
• Casualties: incidents, collisions, groundings, machinery failures, classified by IMO severity.
• Class: classification society, current standing, conditions of class, and next survey date.

The people layer: verified operator contacts

Every vessel in the platform is paired with the decision maker behind it. Vessel Hunter maintains direct mobile numbers, verified emails, role and authority labels (owner, technical, procurement, agency), and a freshness flag so stale entries get replaced before they reach you. Contacts are verified on a rolling cycle and re-checked when a vessel changes operator or management. Bounces feed back into the validation loop within the same business week.

This is the layer most maritime intelligence platforms do not have. AIS providers sell you positions. Vessel Hunter sells you the position and the phone number of the person who decides whether the ship dry-docks at your yard, refuels at your bunker terminal, or signs the service contract.

Watchlists, alerts, and the maritime CRM workflow

Five watchlist types (fleet, owner, port, route, and dark fleet) cross five alert triggers (inbound, alongside, departing, dry dock window, and AIS gap) for 25 alert types out of the box. Each watchlist routes independently to email, web push, Slack, or in-app, with quiet hours, immediate vs daily digest, and weekend silence. A webhook drops the same alerts into any other system your team runs.

Native exports to CSV today; HubSpot, Salesforce, and Pipedrive integrations on request. The webhook layer drops alerts directly into whatever maritime CRM, ticketing, or commercial workflow your team already runs.

API and audit log

Scoped personal access tokens let your team query vessels, contacts, watchlists, and alerts programmatically. Every call is audit-logged for SOC 2 evidence, tokens are revocable from the workspace settings, and a custom DPA plus SSO are available on request.

Mobile: iOS and Android (coming this year)

Live push alerts the moment a target vessel hits your zone, and calling straight to the operator’s verified mobile in a single tap. The native apps mirror your desktop watchlists in real time, so field reps, port captains, and on-call sales engineers get the same AIS feed, vessel dossier, and decision-maker contacts wherever they are.

Built for shipyards, service providers, and port agents. See the full data sources and pricing.