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formation to its customers. It also keeps a track of world. With its large database, myshiptracking al-
the search history of the users to provide better lows users to monitor vessels and ports efficiently
user experience and offers premium paid member- to analyze the marine traffic across the world. The
ship for advanced users. website also allows you to save browsing data and
also offers its service to iPhone and Android users
4. VesselFinder through mobile apps.
Established in 2011, VesselFinder offers real-time 8. CruiseMapper
data on more than 100,000 vessels on a daily ba-
sis with the help of a large network of terrestrial Unlike other online vessel monitoring websites,
AIS receivers. CruiseMapper offers information on positions and
schedules of various cruise ships serving tourists
Offering services across digital, social and mobile across the world. With its Cruise ships and ports
platforms, VesselFinder offers efficient monitoring database, the website provides information on fea-
services, port calls, and master data and a de- tures and technical specifications of each cruise
tailed voyage history of each ship. In addition, it and information for major ports that house the
also provides historical AIS Data services that de- cruise ships.
liver customized ship movements reports, analysis
of traffic density and video simulation of vessel Editors Note: I am using VesselFinder Premium. I
movements, among others. This is available as a did not check out all of the other services or their
free service but in that mode is very limited. The respective fees. The Premium Service of Ves-
Premium mode at $59 a year offers much more. selFinder more than met my interests. The infor-
Vessel finder is one of the top free ship tracking mation below spells out what is available in Premi-
website with a great tool. They also offer news um Mode. Tracking 500 ships was not a particular-
related to maritime affairs. Their service is free, ly useful feature but the rest I found very interest-
but users need to be registered to check for deep- ing. https://www.vesselfinder.com/
er details. The official mobile app is fast loading Terrestrial Coverage, Track History (7 days vs 1
and light. See Editors Note. day in Free Mode), My Fleet (This allows tracking
5. Vesseltracker of specific ships - 500 in Premium ships vs 10
ships in Free Mode), Port Calls, Vessel Particulars,
With the database of more than 1,000,000 ves- Density by Vessel Type, Advanced Port Filters,
sels, Vesseltracker provides customized both real- Map auto-refresh, Full-screen view, No Ads, Fast
time and historical data on vessels voyaging tracking.
across the world. It will help users monitor vessels
with the help of map views and layers including I see all these ships on my daily walk and then to
google satellite, google earth and nautical charts come home and check out which was going where
etc. was good use of my time. I also enjoyed tracking
the Orca class Training vessels of interest. (Orca
The website has a huge database that consists of (Pct 55), Raven (PCT 56), Caribou (PCT 57,) Re-
updated vessel specifications, characteristics, nard (PCT 58), Wolf (PCT 59), Grizzly (PCT 60),
ownership and management information etc. In Cougar (PCT 61), Moose (PCT 62). Check out the
addition, Vesseltracker offers analytics and reports following websites for more detail:
on vessel movements and port events.
https://www.seamanmemories.com/vessel-
6. VT Explorer tracking-websites-free/
VT Explorer offers its users with the real-time AIS https://www.marineinsight.com/know-more/top-8
position data and technical information of more -websites-to-track-your-ship/
than 100,000ships every day. Apart from the re-
quired information, the website also provides im- https://marineandoffshoreinsight.com/5-best-free-
ages of all the vessels being tracked by. Available ship-tracking-websites/
to use from both your personal computer and mo- RCN Fleet Tracker
bile, VT Explorer helps monitor ship schedules and
arrivals to analyze the trading patterns. Using AIS tracking, this map follows the Royal Ca-
nadian Navy’s warships as they deploy around the
7. Myshiptracking world. Some ships will not appear as they deacti-
Myshiptracking is another advanced website that vate their tracking. Many positions are also out of
provides real-time positions of vessels around the date if the ship chooses not to broadcast its posi-
http://www.noabc.com/
