Vesseltracker

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Vesseltracker
legal form GmbH
founding 2006
Seat Hamburg , Germany
Branch Shipping , IT
Website www.vesseltracker.com

The Vesseltracker.com GmbH is a company that the ship positions and other information about marketed ships, so is an online marine monitoring and reporting service, what it means automatic identification system receives (AIS) vessel position data and processed.

history

The vesseltracker.com GmbH was founded in Hamburg of 2006. Since 2013 the company has been part of the Daily Mail and General Trust Group through Genscape . Along with MarineTraffic, Vesseltracker is one of the best-known providers of AIS services.

Infrastructure

The company maintains an antenna network in more than 2000 ports, which receives ship position data using AIS. The combination of terrestrial and satellite AIS data with ship master data provides an overview of global ship movements. From vesseltracker.com, users can receive real-time data on ship positions and ship movements, their history, ownership and management relationships and contacts. More than 100,000 ships can be tracked.

deals

The company offers:

  • Coastal AIS tracking : Over 2000 antenna stations transmit AIS ship movements from all major ports
  • Satellite-based AIS tracking: satellites from the partner exactEarth enable ships to be tracked even on the high seas
  • Ship status alerting (e.g. entering and leaving ports) via telephone, SMS and e-mail
  • Access to ship master data and specifications, ownership and management data with contact information
  • Access via mobile devices - including iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry
  • Structured lists of ships for easy access to specific information
  • Distance calculation - from ship position to port, port to ship and port to port
  • Historical data - including information about which ports and even which berths your ships have called at
  • Real-time data reference - enables the use of specified data for in-house applications
  • Ship photos - More than 645,000 views for information and analysis

Customers for the chargeable services of vesseltracker.com are e.g. B. Shipping companies, terminals, authorities, pilots, tugs and other port service providers; the company also provides free access for everyone.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Genscape.com: Genscape Completes Acquisition of Vesseltracker.com GmbH ... (English)
  2. DMGT Annual Report 2013, p. 6 (PDF)
  3. Fischer Yvonne: Knowledge-based probabilistic modeling for situation analysis using the example of maritime surveillance . KIT Scientific Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7315-0460-3 ( google.de [accessed June 26, 2018]).

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