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MarineTraffic Review, Pricing, and Features
MarineTraffic is a global AIS vessel-tracking platform for monitoring ships, voyages, ports, route forecasts, custom areas, alerts, historical tracks, and maritime data APIs. Investors can use it as shipping, commodity, trade, and supply-chain alternative data, especially when vessel movements or port calls matter to a thesis. It is not a securities database, pricing feed, fundamentals product, broker, or portfolio analytics tool, and API access depends on account-specific entitlements.
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Pricing
Free • Paid plans available · 4 plans
Free
Basic
Essential
Enterprise
Key features
- Tracking vessels on a live AIS map with filters for ship type, capacity, status, destination, and custom smart filters.
- Tools for creating notifications for port calls, area entries, speed or course changes, drifting, ETA updates, draught updates, proximity events, and AIS coverage changes.
- Email, mobile push, and notification archives to monitor maritime events are available without constantly watching the map.
- Views for reviewing Past Track playback, with history depth varying by plan from limited free access to deeper Enterprise history.
- Route-forecast tools for path previews, ETA detail, and speed detail where the plan supports them.
- Define or import custom areas with KMZ, KML, GEOJSON, or WKT files, subject to plan limits.
- Export support for vessel and port database records to CSV where monthly export quotas allow it.
- Evaluation tools for REST API access for live positions, historical tracks, port and berth calls, predictive events, voyage forecasts, destinations, ETA, congestion, route calculations, reverse geocoding, fleet data, and balances.
- API keys and active services are contract- and account-specific and are not automatically included with every online plan.
- MarineTraffic is maritime and supply-chain alternative data, not verified financial statements, market prices, investment advice, or a complete public-company research workflow.
FAQ
Is MarineTraffic free?
Not entirely. MarineTraffic includes a free tier, but its paid subscription options unlock more capacity. Visit the vendor site for current limits and pricing.
Who is MarineTraffic best for?
It suits beginner, intermediate, and advanced users.
What platforms and connections does MarineTraffic support?
You can use MarineTraffic on Web and Mobile. MarineTraffic offers an API (REST) with APIKey authentication.
Which markets does MarineTraffic cover?
MarineTraffic covers North America, Europe, APAC, LatAm, Middle East, and Africa. It tracks Other.
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