Vessel Hunter v1.3: our biggest update yet
Laden or in ballast, Beyond AIS, our V2 search engine, sanctioned companies and vessels, bridge email, direct port monitoring and port data v2.
Twelve days of work since v1.2, told at once. You can now see whether a vessel is laden or in ballast, where a ship probably is after she stops broadcasting, screen your whole fleet against live sanctions lists, and find any ship or company by any name it has ever used.
Watch the 50 second film, or read on for everything that is new, better and fixed. Features marked Beta carry the same tab in the app: they are live, and we are still tuning them.
New
Load condition (Beta) See whether a vessel is laden or in ballast, read from the draught she broadcasts herself. Filter your fleet on it. Works for tankers, bulkers and other ships whose cargo is weight limited; container ships do not sit deeper when full, so we do not guess for them.
Beyond AIS (Beta) When a vessel has been silent for more than a day, the vessel page shows the area she is most likely in now, instead of a dot that stopped moving. The Route and AIS tab adds a monthly track archive, a fleet filter for "Recently went quiet", and an alert the moment she broadcasts again.
Sanctions page (Beta) A new page in the sidebar. Screen your whole fleet in one go, browse the lists, see what changed this week, and paste or upload up to 500 names to screen them at once.
Smart search Press ⌘K and just type what you are after: a ship, a company, a former name, an abbreviation, or a whole question like "tankers heading to Fujairah". Smart search works out what you mean and takes you straight there. Questions are in Beta.
Save any filter as a hunt (Beta) Build a filter in Fleet, save it as a hunt, and we flag every vessel that newly matches.
Group entities (Beta) One ship companies are folded into the family they belong to, with the operator and its people on top. Tick it off to see every entity one by one.
One company, one page Duplicate company records are merged. Old spellings redirect to the right page, and a new Network tab shows the decision makers, the company and its fleet at a glance.
Port services (Beta) Water, repairs, fuel oil, provisions and dry dock for 3,204 ports, with a Services filter on the port list.
Vessel stories (Beta) A sourced line under the vessel name and an "In the news" card, so the page tells you why this ship matters this week.
Bridge contact (Beta) A likely email address for the ship herself, worked out from her sister ships, with a confidence score.
Hunt a port Hunt by port as well as by fleet, with a contact on every row. Hunts now flag a departure, and the arrival window is set in hours.
Fleets by drop Paste or drop a list of IMO numbers to create a fleet.
A rebuilt port page Map, arrival profile, who to call, inspection year, facilities, companies, nearby ports and news, on one page.
A new tour and help guide A hands on tour with "Show me" buttons, and a searchable help drawer behind the ? key. Pick your theme and background before you start.
Better
Live sanctions lists, with the source shown on every designation and a weekly check for changes.
Your mail on your clock. One digest at the hour you choose, no "nothing moved" mails, and you can mute a single hunt.
The morning digest is a work list: what arrived, what sailed, what to act on.
Cleaner vessel pages. A tab only appears when there is something in it.
No more limits on watchlists and ports, on every plan.
A faster map that only redraws what moved.
Berth shown when a vessel's status already says she is moored.
Inspection findings open in full instead of being cut off.
Fixed
The IACS class flag was wrong on 1,584 of 1,741 vessels. It is right now.
EU sanctions names appeared in the wrong language.
The AIS track could end 12 hours behind the live position.
A routed destination such as "A>B" was read backwards.
An arrival alert checked a field that is always empty.
An account default could overwrite the notification choice you made on a hunt.
Expired ETAs showed as "4000d ago".
"No AIS yet" appeared on vessels that did have a position.
Company fleet counts included vessels we do not hold.
Prospector could open the staff of the wrong company.
The Specs and Engine tabs had a broken layout.
The two factor code could be resent too often.
More data
Engine details on 17,777 vessels, up from 11,179.
142,752 alternative names for 69,231 companies, so search finds them by any of them.
5,014 duplicate company pages merged into one.
More vessels screened now that more live sanctions lists are checked.
Everything above is live now. Log in at vesselhunter.io to try it, or book a demo if you have not seen Vessel Hunter yet.
