Global satellite + terrestrial AIS vessel-tracking data

Name: Global satellite + terrestrial AIS vessel-tracking data: cleaned per-vessel position feeds, predicted routes/ETAs, port and anchorage congestion/waiting-time monitoring, and historical vessel position archives.
Creator: Cloudfront

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Global satellite + terrestrial AIS vessel-tracking data: cleaned per-vessel position feeds, predicted routes/ETAs, port and anchorage congestion/waiting-time monitoring, and historical vessel position archives.

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Industry: Marine TransportationApplication Software
Instruments: commoditiesequities
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Type: not stated
Format: Tabular / Geospatial time-series (AIS messages in JSON)
Volume: ~350 million AIS messages/day, covering 250K+ unique vessels/day and 67K+ unique IMOs/day — implying well over 100 billion AIS data points/year in the live feed alone.
Users: N/A — sold as a B2B enterprise data/API subscription (port operators, brokers, shippers, freight forwarders), not a registered-user consumer product; customer count not publicly disclosed.
History: not stated
Update frequency: not stated
Growth: Active but in ownership transition (Kpler completed its acquisition of Spire Maritime in 2025 after a UK CMA review; company continues attending trade shows like Nor-Shipping 2025 and shipping new features such as a Routing API).
Launched: 2019 (Spire Global publicly announced the creation of its dedicated Spire Maritime business unit for AIS data and analytics in February 2019)
Delivery: not stated
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