MarineTraffic
MarineTraffic, a Kpler company, is a global provider of vessel tracking and maritime intelligence data. The platform offers AIS-based real-time vessel positions, port calls, predictive ETAs, historical voyage data, and ship registry information used for fleet monitoring, port operations, and supply chain visibility.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles MarineTraffic the way a machine reads it — 28 machine-readable artifacts across 8 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — MarineTraffic scores 52.8/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile MarineTraffic
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for MarineTraffic. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 8
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
MarineTraffic Real-time Events API
MarineTraffic Real-time Events API delivers live updates on port calls, bunkering operations, ship-to-ship transfers, and other maritime events as they occur.
MarineTraffic Predictive Events API
MarineTraffic Predictive Events API delivers predicted destinations, estimated time of arrivals (ETAs), and voyage forecasts using AI and AIS data analysis.
MarineTraffic Past Events API
MarineTraffic Past Events API provides access to historical vessel movements and events, enabling retrospective analysis of shipping patterns, port call history, and voyage reco...
MarineTraffic Ship Database API
MarineTraffic Ship Database API provides detailed information on vessel characteristics, ownership, photos, vessel type, flag state, dimensions, and technical specifications for...
MarineTraffic AIS Vessel Tracking API
MarineTraffic provides AIS (Automatic Identification System) vessel tracking APIs delivering real-time vessel positions, speeds, headings, destinations, and ETAs. The REST API r...
MarineTraffic Port Operations API
Port calls, arrivals, and departures
MarineTraffic Vessel Tracking API
Real-time and historical vessel positions
MarineTraffic Vessels API
Vessel static data and characteristics
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
MarineTraffic AIS Vessel Tracking API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Marinetraffic Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Marinetraffic Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Marinetraffic Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
MarineTraffic API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 10
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
ErrorResponse
JSON SCHEMAExpectedArrival
JSON SCHEMAExpectedArrivalsResponse
JSON SCHEMAPortCall
JSON SCHEMAPortCallsResponse
JSON SCHEMAMarineTraffic Vessel
JSON SCHEMAVesselPositionsResponse
JSON SCHEMAVesselResponse
JSON SCHEMAVesselTrackPoint
JSON SCHEMAVesselTrackResponse
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JSON Structure 1
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Marinetraffic Structure
JSON STRUCTURESecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for MarineTraffic — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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