With summer rapidly approaching a large part of the MarineTraffic team has taken advantage of the warmer weather and headed to sea where they are undertaking sailing lessons. Curious to learn more about what it feels like to be on a sailing boat, and to test our applications while at[…]
As a Big Data provider, with 800 million positions received daily, MarineTraffic has a lot of information to process. Sorting through this vast amount of information to ensure we deliver the most accurate to our end users, is our Data Team. “The MarineTraffic Data Team is at the core of[…]
MarineTraffic will team up with the United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD) on a data sharing project that will lead to a more accurate analysis of global trade and the maritime industry. The two organisations signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Switzerland this week, that will see[…]
Freight rates will continue to improve in the coming months, however the containership market still faces a challenging second half of the year, according to a leading market analyst. James Frew, Senior Analyst at Maritime Strategies International, and a key speaker at this week’s Global Liner Shipping event in Hamburg,[…]
Companies operating in the container shipping sector are working hard to improve the way they use big data, realising it will play a key role in the future of the business. That’s what Peter Sand, Chief Shipping Analyst at BIMCO , told MarineTraffic in the lead up to the Global[…]
This picture was taken by Wolf Endres, who has over 4,900 pictures on our site as an active member of our photographers' community. The vessel was spotted in Frankfurt, in Höchst, it is called Eiltank 69, it is a tanker ship, with a German flag and was built in 1992.
This vessel is named FSL London, has a Singaporean flag and was built in 2006. The picture was taken by Hartmut Brockmueller who spotted this oil products tanker in Hamburg, in Rüschpark.
Built in 2008, this Portuguese flagged container ship is named Iris Bolten. The vessel was spotted in Hamburg, in Rüschpark by Hartmut Brockmueller, who has over 1,100 pictures contributed to our site as a member of our photographers' community.
Nautica is a passenger ship spotted in Rhodes, by Lambros Kakes. This Marshall Islands flagged vessel has a length of 181 metres, a breadth of 25.46 metres and was built in 2000.
This sailing vessel is named Sailing Yacht A, it is carrying a Bermuda flag and was spotted in Kieler Förde by Carl Groll. It was built in 2017 and it is the largest sailing yacht in the world with a length of 142.81 metres.
Welcome to the May 2017 Marine Gallery, a monthly segment on our blog featuring the five best pictures of every month, selected by members of the MarineTraffic Team. These could include images of vessels, ports or lighthouses from around the world. We encourage everyone to submit photos by signing up[…]