VesselScope Vessel Tracking API

The VesselScope API delivers comprehensive marine tracking and analytics, offering real-time and historical vessel positions, voyage forecasting, and port congestion insights. Whether you need to track a single vessel, monitor maritime traffic in a specific region, or predict port arrivals, this API provides accurate and up-to-date AIS data.

Key Features:

• Live Vessel Tracking: Get real-time AIS positions for individual vessels or an entire area.
• Historical Data: Retrieve past vessel positions and port calls.
• Voyage Forecasting: Predict vessel ETAs to ports and analyze fleet movements.
• Port & Berth Analytics: Monitor congestion levels and expected arrivals at ports worldwide.
• Search & Filtering: Find vessels by name, IMO, MMSI, or filter by vessel type.
• Scalable & Fast: Designed to support high-volume requests with pagination and filtering.

This API is ideal for shipping companies, port operators, logistics providers, and developers building maritime applications. It supports multiple data formats (jsono, csv) for easy integration.

This API uses API key authentication to authorize and secure requests. Clients must include a valid API key in the request header to access any protected endpoints.

Authentication Method

Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY

Obtaining an API Key

You must contact VesselScope support to obtain an API key. The key is unique to your account and grants access based on the permissions assigned to it. Keep your API key secure and do not share it publicly.

Error Handling

If authentication fails, the API will return a 401 Unauthorized error. This can happen due to the following reasons:

• Invalid or missing API key: Ensure the API key is correctly included in the Authorization header.
• Expired API key: Some keys may have an expiration period. If your key is expired, request a new one.
• Insufficient permissions: The API key may not have the necessary access rights for certain endpoints.
• Revoked API key: If your key has been deactivated, you must obtain a new one.