ShipIntel Essentials

A must-have AIS based solution for teams involved in maritime business

For tracking, monitoring and analyzing vessel movements and port traffic.

Letting companies combine high-quality processed AIS data, enriched by other publicly available maritime data, and a sea route engine, with their proprietary data, for sharing business intelligence efficiently within teams, allowing you to make data-driven decisions.

Maritime Optima’s maritime software solution; ShipIntel, displayed on both desktop and mobile devices. The image shows ship routes, ports, and vessel information, highlighting sea between Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, as well as icons indication vessels on the map. The image on the mobile device, shows a sea route calculation made in ShipIntel for a dry bulk vessel. vessel  The software solution made by Maritime Optima, called ShipIntel, includes features like AIS data, voyage and sea routes, and consumption statistics, offering a comprehensive maritime management view for maritime operations, providing its users with maritime intelligence at their fingertips.
High-quality processed maritime data
AI-driven
Built by and for shipping professionals
Integrated with Microsoft 365
Made for team collaboration
Flexible and affordable
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ShipIntel Essentials all-in-one solution

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Find live, historical and future predictions for vessel movements. See where vessels have been trading in the past, current positions, where they are heading and destination predictions for future destinations.
Tailor-make your map by picking type of vessels, ECA zones, war zones, sea ice, weather, country zones and boundaries, canal constraints, sea routes, vessel lists, and notifications etc.
Find which vessels have been visiting the ports, incoming vessels and recent departures. Find when the vessels arrived, how long they stayed at the anchorage and in the port, where they came from and where they are heading next.
Create vessel lists; live vessel lists, position lists, manually picked vessel list, or your fleet, and custom alerts for change in destination, change in speed, ETA, course. The resources are shared within your team to support efficient collaboration.
Find the shortest sea routes and compare alternative routes. The sea routes include constraints, ice conditions, carbon emission zones and emission calculations so you can compare and pick the preferred routes. Create routes from vessels' live AIS position to any port, or from port to port.
Bulk upload your maritime contacts and attach companies and contacts to the vessels they operate, or to specific vessels and ports they are associated with.
Attach documents, technical descriptions, photos and notes to vessels and/or ports to have quick and easy access to information when you need it. The documents are always synced across your platform and shared inside your team.

Already using Microsoft 365 applications?

While Microsoft provides versatile solutions for various industries, ShipIntel offers specialized maritime extensions tailored for companies involved in maritime business.
ShipIntel Essentials can be seamlessly integrated with Microsoft OneDrive/SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook, and your company's Microsoft Entra.
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Leveraging high-quality maritime data, industry knowledge and AI

Maritime Optima collects live raw AIS data from satellites, terrestrial and dynamic AIS sources. We clean, unify, and process the data in-house to provide high-quality AIS data for all types of vessels with global coverage.

We have developed a software that lets companies combine high-quality processed AIS data, enriched by other publicly available maritime data, and a sea route engine, with their proprietary data.

By applying machine learning and deep learning analytics to these data sets; in real-time as well as for historical data, we offer companies involved in maritime business the next generation decision support software.

Cross platform

ShipIntel is available on the App Store and Google Play Store, allowing you to work on the go. You and your team's activity and data is automatically synced between your devices.

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Popular features in ShipIntel Essentials

Live vessel lists (unlimited)

Create live vessel lists based on criteria such as; ballast/laden, current position, speed, course etc. and be notified about changes in real-time.

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Destination prediction

Find where the vessels are going when the vessels don’t want to disclose their next port.

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Custom notifications

Be notified in real-time, daily email digests and in MS Teams, about vessel movements, port activity, and for chartering people; cargo statuses (Pre-fix).

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Bunker prices and forward curves

Access daily updated bunker prices and forward curves in bunkering ports.

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Sea route calculator

Find the shortest sea routes and compare alternative routes. Get distances, ETAs, calculated carbon emissions (EU ETS) and bunker consumption.

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Integrated with Microsoft 365

ShipIntel can be seamlessly integrated with Microsoft 365 and your company's Microsoft Entra Access control system.

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See ShipIntel Essentials in action

Explore our solutions through a live personalized demo where you ask the questions and we show you how to find the answers in ShipIntel.

What do our customers say?


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.

Ole Jacob Person, Managing Director at Pareto Maritime Service Team.
Ole Jacob Person
Managing Director at Pareto Maritime Service Team

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.

Mathias Børresen, Investment Manager at NPR Maritime Asset Management AS
Mathias Børresen
NRP Maritime Asset Management AS


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


We started using ShipIntel because we needed an AIS software and a sea route calculator. We added more features because we gained access to high-quality AIS data, smart AI searches, and a very user-friendly software at an affordable price. There are too many stand alone softwares, and we have started looking for a kind of all in one software that gives us what we need at an affordable price.

Portrait picture of Ole Jacob Person
Lars Paulsen
Commercial Director at Oslo Bulk

We chose ShipIntel because it is an innovative solution, easy to use, and comes with a very competitive price. We continued using ShipIntel because the Maritime Optima team continuously develop and maintain the software. We also think it is an advantage that maritime software is developed by people that have been working in the industry. So the easy to use, relevancy, high AIS quality and price makes ShipIntel a unique maritime software box.

Sebastian Venjar, Shipbroker at Hesnes Gas AS
Sebastian Venjar
Shipbroker at Hesnes Gas AS

We believe ShipIntel stands out on key points such as coverage, search/filters/lists, and user interface. The highly skilled IT team is supplemented with experienced shipping people, so we are confident that ShipIntel will continue developing to our benefit.

Peter T. M. Brandt, CEO at Dyna Shipping AS
Peter T. M. Brandt
CEO at Dyna Shipping AS
Learn more about ShipIntel Essentials

Live vessel lists (unlimited)

Create live vessel lists and be notified in real time, daily email digests or in Microsoft Teams, when the vessels arrive, depart or set a destination and later changes.

Find vessels in an area “just now” and find when they will be in a specific port or region.

Find vessels in ballast or laden condition able to meet a laycan window in a specific port and find the vessels ETAs.

Find vessels just left a port in laden or ballast condition with a set destination. Attached to each vessel in your list are technical descriptions, live AIS data, and port and berths the vessels have been visiting in the past.

Create as many live vessels lists as you want.

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.

Destination prediction

While some vessels set a destination, others don't. Therefore, ShipIntel have developed a predictive model which forecasts where the vessels will sail when they say "unknown" or set a "not readable" destination.

ShipIntel predicts the countries and the ports together with an ETA based on the vessel's AIS service speed.

If the vessel sets a destination with an ETA, we also show you what the vessel says so you can compare and evaluate.

Custom notifications

Get notified in real time, daily email digests or in MS Teams about vessel movements, port activity, and cargo statuses.  

Monitor vessels and ports and get notified when vessels set a destination or when ShipIntel predicts a destination (including ETAs and ETDs), or when they arrive or depart.  

Get alerts when vessels set and change speed, course, or status.  

Be notified about changes in cargo status (open, in calculation, in negotiation, fixed on subs, or fully fixed).

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.

Bunker prices and forward curves

Find daily updated bunker prices in ports, historical data, short trends and forward curves for different bunker grades.

In the sea route calculator, you can find bunker ports along your sea-route and calculate fuel consumption and carbon emissions (EU ETS).

As a part of Pre-fix you can plan where to bunker and ShipIntel will notify you if and where you need to bunker, estimate the bunker intake and estimate the carbon emissions (EU ETS).

Sea route calculator

You can calculate sea routes 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 vessel is too large to pass.

Avoid ice, minimize carbon emissions, avoid canals, shortest or alternative sea routes. Find the distance, ETA, and calculated carbon emissions (EU ETS).

The sea route calculator is excellent for user cases such as your vessel is on its way to Itaguai with an ETA 1st of March, and your broker asks if she can go to Port Kamsar instead and asks when she will be there. Or, if you are asked to give 3 new discharge options after you have fixed the vessel, where you have to give the ETA.

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.

Integrated with Microsoft 365

Bring ShipIntel into your Microsoft 365 workspace:

  • Create custom alerts and be notified in Microsoft Teams or by email about vessel movements, port activity, or team activity. Collaborate through shared vessel and port lists.
  • Attach documents in SharePoint to vessels and ports and ensure your team always has access to the latest version.
  • Bulk upload contacts from Outlook contact book and attach them to vessels or ports they operate in.
  • Use ShipIntel on mobile and work more efficiently on the go. Receive custom notifications, access drawings and checklists, view instructions, and document work with notes and photos – all in one place.