Maritime Data & APIs | AIS Vessel Tracking

Real-time and historical AIS data

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Kpler AIS

Single live positions endpoint delivering real-time vessel location, speed, course, heading, destination, ETA, draught, and navigational status

Combined terrestrial, roaming, and satellite AIS in one data layer — reducing coverage gaps across ports, coastlines, congested trade lanes, and open ocean with no feed stitching required

Filter by vessel type, flag, DWT, speed, name, and geography to retrieve exactly the data your use case needs

Full historical AIS positions to reconstruct past tracks, backtest models, and build defensible movement timelines

720+

oil & chemicals grades tracked globally

43M+

barrels per day of crude oil monitored

1.3M+

Kt of clean petroleum products tracked

98.5%

accuracy rating for crude exports

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Port, berth and vessel events

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Kpler Maritime Events

Vessel arrivals, departures, dockings, and undockings at port and berth level — supporting logistics planning, market analysis, and customer visibility workflows

Operational shift detection across ETA updates, destination changes, draught adjustments, course changes, and status transitions — knowing when vessel behaviour has changed, not just where a vessel is

Historical port activity, dwell times, and movement patterns to surface trends and build defensible operational baselines

Event data combined with AIS, vessel, and port context to build applications that explain what movements mean

720+

oil & chemicals grades tracked globally

43M+

barrels per day of crude oil monitored

1.3M+

Kt of clean petroleum products tracked

98.5%

accuracy rating for crude exports

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Routing, ETAs and predictive destination intelligence

‍Kpler Routing & Predictive Voyage
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Realistic vessel routes, distances, and ETAs modelled on actual operating conditions — not straight-line estimates — so applications reflect how vessels move in practice

Routing and ETA outputs available through dedicated APIs, keeping predictive logic cleanly separated from live AIS, historical movement, and static vessel records

Anticipate vessel destinations before arrival — giving logistics, port operations, trading, and customer visibility teams earlier signal to act on

Connect current position, historical behaviour, projected route, and expected arrival to show the full voyage picture and its downstream operational impact

720+

oil & chemicals grades tracked globally

43M+

barrels per day of crude oil monitored

1.3M+

Kt of clean petroleum products tracked

98.5%

accuracy rating for crude exports

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Vessel ownership and particulars

Query vessel particulars through GraphQL — retrieving identifiers, type, flag, class, dimensions, draught, capacity, build details, and shipyard information with exact field selection

Access ownership and management context including registered owner, commercial manager, associated companies, and historical company associations for due diligence and compliance workflows

Keep vessel metadata separate from AIS positions — combining movement data with vessel characteristics and ownership context without conflating static records with live tracking

Flexible field selection and filtering for due diligence tools, risk workflows, fleet analytics, and customer-facing maritime products

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720+

oil & chemicals grades tracked globally

43M+

barrels per day of crude oil monitored

1.3M+

Kt of clean petroleum products tracked

98.5%

accuracy rating for crude exports

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Flexible data delivery and streaming services

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REST APIs for on-demand access to AIS positions, historical positions, routes, events, and other maritime datasets — integrating maritime intelligence into applications, dashboards, and workflows

GraphQL for vessel ownership and particulars — requesting exactly the fields needed without pulling unnecessary data into your systems

Kafka or NMEA streams for real-time ingestion — decoded JSON through Kafka or raw AIS messages through NMEA, fitting the infrastructure your team already runs

Snowflake, LiveDB, S3, FTP, and custom extracts for data teams bringing maritime datasets into BI tools, data lakes, GIS systems, and internal models

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720+

oil & chemicals grades tracked globally

43M+

barrels per day of crude oil monitored

1.3M+

Kt of clean petroleum products tracked

98.5%

accuracy rating for crude exports

Request demo

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Real-time and historical AIS data

Port, berth and vessel events

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Vessel ownership and particulars

Flexible data delivery and streaming services

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