Shiptrail

A port's Arrivals board (ships in port now, then ships en route by ETA) and Departures board (ships that left in the last 48 hours), as its Shiptrail page shows them, by UN/LOCODE. Each row carries the ship's MMSI for get_ship.

Everything Shiptrail's page shows about one ship, by MMSI: identity, size, position, speed, course and status, destination and ETA, where she came from, recent port calls, particulars and registry facts, photo and its credit, a Wikipedia summary, and, with includeNearby, the ships near her. No history over time.

The ships on the live map within a radius of a port (UN/LOCODE) or a point (lat and lon), nearest first: who each is, where, how fast and which way, and how far off. Positions are from the map's ship list, a few minutes old at most. Read any of them with get_ship.

What the live fleet shows now, as Shiptrail's Trends page reads it: the ports where most ships wait at anchor and for how long, the ports most ships are heading for, traffic through the straits and canals, ships stopped in the Southern Bight off Rotterdam and Antwerp, and a group of ships whose broadcast positions show in one false spot. Made about every 30 minutes.

Find ports by name or UN/LOCODE. Busy ports come first, with how many ships are in port, en route and lately departed. Use get_port with a UN/LOCODE for its boards.

Find ships by name, MMSI (9 digits) or IMO number (7 digits): every ship with a Shiptrail page, any class, on the map now or heard in the last year. Ships on the map now come first. Use get_ship with an MMSI for the whole record.