ShipIntel Essentials

A must-have AI driven maritime AIS toolbox

A set of maritime features based on AIS and artificial intelligence. For any type of company and companies of all sizes, involved in maritime business.

ShipIntel Essentials

ShipIntel Essentials is an affordable maritime software for any type of company involved in maritime business

In ShipIntel you can combine the features to match your needs. Here are some examples:

Build your team's AIS-based CRM system by
Sync your Contact Book and attach vessels to your client's, be notified when vessels sets a destination or arrive at a port. Sync or add installation instructions and maintenance schedules and plans, check lists etc. to vessels. When the work is done the people on the site can document their work on the go by shooting photos, ticking off the check list and adding notes directly attached to the vessels.

Corporate Social responsibility and carbon emissions
Create lists of your clients vessels and find where they have been trading in the past, where they are trading now and estimate the vessels carbon emissions. You will find historical AIS data attached to all the vessels so you can find where they have been trading in the past and which vessels have been visiting different ports. Add layers of information to your map like your vessel lists, war zones, ECA zones, piracy waters etc.


Predicting the vessels' next destinations

While some vessels set a destination, others don't. So we have transformed a master thesis into practical features and developed a predictive model which forecasts where the vessels will sail. This model's accuracy is evaluated by comparing its prediction with the actual destinations, so it is improved continuously. We are pleased to make this feature available to you and we are committed to continuously enhance its performance and accuracy.

Since we have an in-house pre-processing AIS pipeline for live as well as historical AIS data, we use this data investment, machine learning algorithms and the in-house built sea route engine, to build models.

So yeah ShipIntel destination model can "predict pretty accurate" what vessels will do in the future.

We call it "Destination predictions".

A PC and a smartphone displaying the Live AIS feature, from the Essential Toolkit in ShipIntel, showing real-time maritime traffic information and vessel movement on both screens.
A PC and a smartphone displaying the Live AIS feature, from the Essential Toolkit in ShipIntel, showing real-time maritime traffic information and vessel movement on both screens.

Live search and live position lists

Search and find one vessel or a group of vessels by their technical dimensions, live and historical AIS data.

Make, save and have the live position lists auto-updated.

  • Find vessels in ballast condition able to meet a laycan window in a specific port.
  • Find vessels just left a port in laden condition with a set destination
  • Find vessels in an area “just now” and find when they will be in a specific port or region.

Create unlimited number of lists of vessels and add them as layers in your map.

Tailor-made alerts so you will be notified about changes in your list or when the vessels set a destination to a port, arrives or depart a specific anchorage, port or berth.

Find historical AIS data attached to each vessel and find whether they loaded or discharged in the visited ports

Sea route calculator with constraints and Emission Calculations

Though the sea route calculator is not a navigational tool for navigators, we are very proud of it. We recommend comparing the ShipIntel sea route calculator with any other sea route calculator.

With ShipIntel, you can create and save sea routes calculated from any of the vessel's real-time AIS positions to any port or combination of ports, or you can route between ports. ShipIntel warns if you try to route a vessel through a canal or strait if the canal constraints show that your vessel is too large to pass.

Want to avoid ice? Optimal ECA zones? Avoid canals? Find optimal ECA sea routes, shortest sea routes, and alternative sea routes so you can compare the distance, ETA, and calculated carbon emissions.

The sea route calculator is excellent for user cases such as your vessel is on its way to Tubarao with an ETA on the 1st of March, and your broker asks if your vessel can go to Itaqui instead and asks when she will be there. Or, you are asked to give 3 new discharge options after you have fixed the vessel, and you want to give the ETA to the different optional load ports and quote a freight rate.

It is available on laptops and mobile phones.

A PC and a smartphone displaying the Live AIS feature, from the Essential Toolkit in ShipIntel, showing real-time maritime traffic information and vessel movement on both screens.

Integrate ShipIntel with your Microsoft 365 subscriptions

ShipIntel Essentials can be integrated with your Microsoft Teams subscription and ShipIntel Pre-Fix can be integrated with your Outlook subscription.

Customers using Microsoft 365 and that support the Microsoft Entra protocol, can login to ShipIntel by using the Microsoft SSO. Then ShipIntel becomes a part of your company's Data security Policy and your company data is protected by the Microsoft Entra protocol.

ShipIntel runs on Microsoft Azure.
The interface for ShipIntel Essentials, a software by Maritime Optima, integrated and displayed in Microsoft Teams. The image shows ShipIntel Essentials’ dashboard interface on Microsoft Teams with the Vessel List feature selected, showing a vessel list of DHT vessels. To the right in the ShipIntel Essential Teams interface, there is a map showing the live position of vessels belonging to the selected vessel list, along with different colors indication and showing various map layers such as Emission Control Areas (SECA), and judicial maritime zones and boundaries.

Files, documents, photos, notes and contacts

Documents, photos, contracts and notes related to vessels and ports are usually stored on OneDrive, Dropbox etc. and you waste a lot of time searching for what you need when you need it.

In ShipIntel Essentials you can:
Attach documents and photos to vessels and ports or sync with your document folder.

Shoot from your mobile photos when visiting a vessel or a port and find they are instantly synced to all the team members and their devices.

Add notes to any "object" like vessels, ports, lists, emails, cargoes etc. The notes are attached to the objects and your will find them in your team's notebook.

Sync or upload your contact book (companies and employees) and attach their vessels to the companies, so you have the company, its employees and the vessels in one place.

Have a private questionnaire template for any of the vessels and build and sync your private technical descriptions.

Then you have it all the information at your fingertips and truly in your pocket.

A PC and a smartphone displaying the Live AIS feature, from the Essential Toolkit in ShipIntel, showing real-time maritime traffic information and vessel movement on both screens.
A PC and a smartphone displaying the Live AIS feature, from the Essential Toolkit in ShipIntel, showing real-time maritime traffic information and vessel movement on both screens.

Customize your private map with map layers

Add the layers you prefer. Sea ice(updated every 24hours), ECA zones, Load Line, Maritime Judicial zones (200 – 24 and 12 nautical mile zones), war zones, piracy, Polar code, Canals and waterways. (New layers of information can be added based on request from customers)

Updated marine weather every 24 hrs with a 14 days weather forecast (wind, waves, OceanCurrent and Precipitation)

Add the type of vessels you follow mostly or add type of vessels (segments)and size of vessels.

Switch between satellite and default maps.
Create vessel lists and find the vessels in your map.

Search for or click on vessels or ports in the map and quickly calculate distances and ETAs to other ports. Easily find the lat long coordinates, timestamp, current speed, whether the vessel is in ballast or laden condition, last port and next port.

Live Port and area monitoring and statistics

Monitor the live vessel traffic in areas, regions, anchorages and ports. Find which vessels are in the port just now, and which are expected to arrive.

Use the historical arrivals and departures to find which vessels have been visited the ports, whether they loaded or discharged and the average time the vessels spent there.

Be alerted when vessels set a destination, arrive or depart or passing specific lines (select different compass directions).

Find biggest vessels visited the ports based on LOA, dwt, draft and Beam.

A PC and a smartphone displaying the Live AIS feature, from the Essential Toolkit in ShipIntel, showing real-time maritime traffic information and vessel movement on both screens.

What do our customers say about ShipIntel?


We decided to change over to ShipIntel because it is a great and user-friendly ship tracking system with so much more. With over 50 vessels in our ship project finance portfolio, we need ship details, alerts, port info, traffic statuses and trends all the time. ShipIntel is a tool that easily gives us such information and connects our team.

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Ole Jacob Person
Managing Director at Pareto Maritime Service Team


Having used several competing AIS providers, we were confident in our decision to add ShipIntel Essentials to our toolbox. We are impressed with its sleek, responsive, and easy-to-use interface and we're excited to leverage its full potential in our day-to-day operations. Maritime Optima has been very attentive, listening to our needs and implementing functions we have requested.

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Espen Thulin
Shipbroker at Nomadic Shipping AS

ShipIntel is our go-to solution for portfolio monitoring. ShipIntel is a reliable software built on high-quality data, followed by excellent customer and user service. Exactly what we need to gain real-time insight to empower our team's strategic decision-making.

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Mathias Børresen
NRP Maritime Asset Management AS