Every ship on the map.
And the answers behind her.
Most trackers show you a moving dot. ShipWatch shows you who owns her, who manages her, who classed her, where she has been and how she has fared under inspection — on one page, for every vessel.
Open the live map — freeWhat you get
Live map, built for density
Tens of thousands of vessels on screen at once, drawn on a custom canvas engine. Zoom out and the world's shipping lanes appear; zoom in and each ship becomes a hull silhouette at true scale.
The register behind the ship
Registered owner, operator, ISM (technical) manager, commercial manager, classification society and P&I club — the answers brokers and agents actually need, not just a dot on a map.
Port State Control record
Every recorded inspection with authority, port, deficiencies and detentions. Know a vessel's compliance history before you fix, charter or agent her.
Past track & port call log
See where a ship came from — 24 hours to 14 days of movement, plus a derived log of every port and yard she stopped at, with arrival times and duration.
Ports, shipyards & congestion
More than 20,000 ports, terminals, anchorages and marinas in 196 countries, plus the major shipyards. Click any of them for live counts of vessels alongside, at anchor and inbound.
Ask in plain English
"Tankers over 200 m near Gibraltar" — ask ShipWatch in your own words instead of learning a filter syntax.
Who uses ShipWatch
Honest about the data
AIS is reported by the ships themselves. Some transponders — small craft and Class B units in particular — never broadcast a destination, ETA or draught. Where a field is genuinely empty we show a dash, never a locked teaser. You will never be asked to pay for data that does not exist.
Register entries carry the date they were last updated, so you can judge how fresh they are. Port call logs are derived from each vessel's own track and we say so on the page.
Open the map. No account, no card.
The live map, vessel particulars, ports and photos are free forever. Create an account only when you want a watchlist.
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