Normal AIS isn't enough anymore.Vessel Hunter is.

Vessel Hunter tracks 100,000+ commercial ships and whole fleet lists on live AIS, inside a 2.3M+ vessel corpus, and gives you the people behind each one too: the owner, the manager, the operator, contacts you can actually reach. It's built by and for maritime service providers, and the idea behind it is simple. Lean back, take a sip of your coffee, and let us do the digging. Before you know it you're talking to your next lead.

Every feature in the platform

A plain AIS tool tells you where a ship is, one vessel at a time. We tell you the whole story. Search across entire fleets, pull the details and reports that matter, and in the same breath get the contacts behind those fleets, so you know which vessels are heading for your facilities and exactly who to call. Sanctioned and dark-fleet vessels get flagged in the same view.

Ships that want to disappear switch their AIS off. We keep tracking them anyway. When the signal drops we rebuild the route from other trails, port filings, satellite radar, bunker and crew records, and put a confidence score on it so you can see how solid the estimate is. It's the same approach sanctions and dark-fleet investigators use.

Positions are live AIS, off both coastal antennas and satellites. That keeps a ship on the map well out to sea. The rest, contacts, fleet lists, specs, ownership, dry dock and casualty history, comes from a broad mix of sources: class societies, P&I clubs, port state records and more. We re-check it on a regular cycle to keep it current.

Every commercial type that broadcasts AIS: tankers, bulkers, boxships, gas carriers, general cargo, reefers, offshore, tugs, and more. That's 100,000+ commercial ships inside a 2.3M+ vessel corpus, covered worldwide by coastal and satellite AIS.

Yes, all of it. Past port calls, how long she stayed, where she's been, who owned her, every dry dock and casualty on record. The useful part is the pattern: you can see when a ship tends to dry dock and which yards she keeps going back to.

As fresh as we can keep them, and the maritime world moves fast. We don't have x-ray vision, so we cross-check instead: regular online and market checks, public footprints, LinkedIn changes, and our own team going back over the records. The goal is a database that updates as the market does, and we stay honest about the parts that lag.

Tell us, that's what the round-the-clock support is for. We'll help you find another route to the right person, or look into what changed. And every bounce you flag sharpens the data for the next user, which is exactly how we want to build this.

Email and in-app alerts, for now. Watchlists bend to how you work: set quiet hours, pick instant alerts or a once-a-day summary, mute the weekend or keep Vessel Hunter with you around the clock. Phone push arrives with the apps later this year.

Yes. The screening lists are built from public, open-source sanctions and dark-fleet data, refreshed on the same cycle as the rest of the platform, and you can lay them over any company or fleet. Matches surface as warnings right on the vessel and its owner, so a risky ship is flagged before you ever pick up the phone.

Yes to GDPR. You sign a Data Processing Agreement with your order, and the platform is built around the basics: collect little, keep it only as long as it earns its place, delete on request. The contacts are business-purpose B2B data, not personal consumer data. SOC 2 Type II is in progress, not finished, and we'll keep saying so until it is. The current trust report is there under NDA if you need it.

Vessel Hunter is built for a broad range of maritime service providers, brokers included. The dossier covers the ship sale and purchase (S&P) research side, ownership, dry dock, casualty and class, and the watchlists cover chartering and fixtures. It isn't a broker-only tool, so ask us about pricing for a desk.

Shipyards and repair yards spot vessels coming up for survey, refit or repair, dry dock or not, and reach the technical superintendent before the booking's made. Suppliers and service providers get their quote in first, alerted the moment a target ship enters their port, terminal or region, with the contact to pitch already on the card. Port agents nominate before anyone else, every inbound ship on one call sheet with the operator's agency desk and the master's ETA contact.

How each team uses Vessel Hunter

Under a day. Because we run around the clock, we get your workspace set up fast, and a built-in tutorial walks your team through it. After that our support team stays close to help you get the most out of Vessel Hunter, all in the monthly price, no extra charge.

There's a free trial on request, so you can try before you commit. After that, pick an annual plan at a lower rate, or go monthly with a three-month minimum and no lock-in beyond it. Pricing scales with team size, and the bigger the team, the fairer the per-seat rate.

We keep a plain-English glossary for exactly that: AIS, IMO, MMSI, DWT, GT, LOA, PSC, ISM, class, charter party, demurrage, all the rest. You don't need a shipping desk to read a dossier.

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