# MarineTraffic

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/marine-traffic/  
**Website:** https://www.marinetraffic.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 14

MarineTraffic is the leading maritime intelligence and AIS ship-tracking platform — now part of Kpler. The MarineTraffic AIS Data API exposes the same live + historical vessel positions, port calls, berth calls, vessel master data, voyage forecasts, predictive arrivals, port-congestion analytics, sea-lane routing, reverse geocoding, and fleet management endpoints that power the public marinetraffic.com map and the Kpler maritime data services. Data is sourced from 13,000+ terrestrial AIS receivers plus satellite AIS, served as REST/JSON (with CSV / XML / JSONO alternatives), authenticated via a per-key prepaid credit balance, and metered in credits per response row with per-service refresh-interval caching.

## Kin Score — 40.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 40.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 67.0 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 38.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

## Agent readiness — 35.4 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Enterprise — onboarding: unknown, pricing: enterprise, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (14)

- **MarineTraffic AIS API API** — The AIS API API from MarineTraffic — 3 operation(s) for ais api.
- **MarineTraffic Balances API** — The Balances API from MarineTraffic — 1 operation(s) for balances.
- **MarineTraffic Fleets API** — The Fleets API from MarineTraffic — 4 operation(s) for fleets.
- **MarineTraffic Passage Plans API** — The Passage Plans API from MarineTraffic — 1 operation(s) for passage plans.
- **MarineTraffic Port Events API** — The Port Events API from MarineTraffic — 2 operation(s) for port events.
- **MarineTraffic Ports Information API** — The Ports Information API from MarineTraffic — 4 operation(s) for ports information.
- **MarineTraffic Reverse Geocoding API** — The Reverse Geocoding API from MarineTraffic — 1 operation(s) for reverse geocoding.
- **MarineTraffic Routing Information API** — The Routing Information API from MarineTraffic — 2 operation(s) for routing information.
- **MarineTraffic Search Vessel API** — The Search Vessel API from MarineTraffic — 2 operation(s) for search vessel.
- **MarineTraffic Single Vessel Events API** — The Single Vessel Events API from MarineTraffic — 3 operation(s) for single vessel events.
- **MarineTraffic Vessel Historical Track API** — The Vessel Historical Track API from MarineTraffic — 2 operation(s) for vessel historical track.
- **MarineTraffic Vessel Information API** — The Vessel Information API from MarineTraffic — 2 operation(s) for vessel information.
- **MarineTraffic Vessel Positions (Legacy API) API** — The Vessel Positions (Legacy API) API from MarineTraffic — 7 operation(s) for vessel positions (legacy api).
- **MarineTraffic Voyage Information API** — The Voyage Information API from MarineTraffic — 5 operation(s) for voyage information.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Marine Traffic Agentic Access** — 78 operations · 2 acting

## Security (1)

- **Marine Traffic Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Marine Traffic Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (7)

- **Commodity trading and freight intelligence** — Power voyage analytics, tonnage tracking, and supply forecasting for commodity desks.
- **Port operations and logistics** — Anticipate berth demand, optimize pilotage and tug allocation, and reduce dwell.
- **Vessel tracking dashboards** — Build fleet dashboards and customer-facing tracking pages using PS04 + VI07.
- **Compliance and sanctions monitoring** — Detect dark fleet behavior, AIS gaps, port-call patterns, and sanctioned vessel touches.
- **Marine insurance underwriting** — Underwrite hull / P&I and route insurance with verified call histories and port-congestion data.
- **Government and coast guard situational awareness** — Feed maritime domain awareness systems with AIS, port-call, and routing context.
- **Carbon and ESG reporting** — Compute voyage-level CO2 estimates by combining VI03 routing + VD02 master data + AIS speed.

## Tags

AIS, Maritime, Vessel Tracking, Shipping, Ports, Voyage Forecasting, Geospatial, Kpler

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/marine-traffic/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.