July: The ShipAtlas edition

Hi everyone, we hope you’ve had an amazing summer this far!

We could start this newsletter off saying we’re finally back from a well-deserved summer break, and that July was uneventful. But that wouldn’t be true. Over the summer, we made significant strides in further distinguishing our two products, ShipAtlas and ShipIntel.

ShipAtlas is and has always been primarily oriented towards individual ship trackers, with features tailored to their needs.

ShipIntel is and has always been designed for companies involved in maritime business, with two subscriptions:

Essentials: Features based on AIS and AI for any type of company involved in maritime business. Can also be integrated with Microsoft Teams.

Pre-Fix: A maritime AI based decision support system for shipbrokers, ship and cargo operators, with integrated email management, parsing and tracking.  

Based on user feedback, we aligned the features between the two products to offer a suite of subscriptions meeting the different needs and wishes.

Let’s get an overview ⬇

July recap

🚢 ShipIntel

Make better decisions today with tomorrows maritime solution.

ShipIntel has a totally new design on Pre-Fix & Compare, a powerful e-mail management, parsing and tracking system. With ShipIntel you get it all; AI driven AIS features where you can search for live information and get alerts, find expected congestion in ports, and predict where vessels will sail and which ports they are heading towards, combined with AI driven email parsing and alerts when new cargoes have been received or when a colleague has started calculating or negotiated on the cargo, and whether it was fixed or fixed and failed.

⛴️ ShipAtlas

Live AIS ship tracking at your fingertips.

ShipAtlas now has more than 400 000 registered users, we hit a new sales record in July, and we launched a new and good looking "vessels nearby me" feature.  

ShipAtlas hits a new sales record in July 🙌

The ShipAtlas community is growing fast and and with more than 400 000 registered users globally, it is of utmost importance to us to continuously develop ShipAtlas to fit our users needs, and the feedback has been clear:

The ShipAtlas users want a clean and easy to understand ship tracker at affordable prices without any ads. Given that, to take one step closer in becoming the best ship tracker there is, without increasing the subscription prices, we have:

• Simplified the solution, and made it more user friendly with updated UX
• Given more focus to the core ship tracking functionalities
• Made adjustments to the subscription plans.

The new ShipAtlas features; Find vessels nearby your position:

We're so excited to introduce you to the updated 'vessels nearby me' feature! As part of our free plan, all our users can enjoy this tool. This tool lets you explore all ships in a 10 km radius to you.

📱 Interactive map following your device direction

Navigate and explore ships nearby with a dynamic and interactive map experience. The revamped interface makes it easy to view and interact with ships, viewing technical details and current voyage information.

📍Easy access to all ships nearby

All ship types will be visible from this screen, with updated live satellite and terrestrial AIS positions. Zoom in, zoom out, or rotate the map to view all the ships in your area. Click on the ships in the map to see more information about them.

This feature, including live satellite and terrestrial AIS information, is free and ensuring you have access to nearby ships and their details.

📸 Shoot photos directly from your mobile

Click on the ship you are interested in, and click on the camera icon to open your mobile camera. When you take the photo it will be attached to the ship and listed under your resources!

FAQ - ShipAtlas edition ⁉️

❓How do I access ships on Standard plan?

On the standard plan you’ll get access to all information for up to 5 ships at a time.  To access this information you have unlock your desired ships. You do this by searching for the ship or simply clicking on a ship in the map, and click ‘Unlock’ on the vessel card.

You can of course change your unlocked ships at any time, making it possible for you to track as much as you want, just not at the same time.

Guide on how to unlock ships under Standard plan:

• Guide for ShipAtlas mobile app users can be found here.
• Guide for ShipAtlas web app users can be found here.

❓I’m at a port and want to see which ships are nearby. What should I do?

Click the icon on the top left on your ShipAtlas mobile and start navigate and explore ships nearby with a dynamic and interactive map experience. The revamped interface makes it easy to view and interact with ships, viewing technical details and current voyage information. Click on vessels in the map and shoot your private photo.

Team and office news ⚓️

☀️Enjoying the last stretch of summer

We hiked up to Kolsåstoppen ⛰️ Few things beats a great view with an even greater team! The stony climb was followed by a BBQ at Kristin's place, where we enjoyed great food, learned about the famous rhomb-porphyry (a rare volcanic rock found in the area) and shared stories and laughter throughout the evening 🍔🪨

🇬🇷 Expanding our presence

In the middle of July, we traveled to Athens to meet with our soon-to-be Greek colleague and to visit our new offices. He is an experienced shipping executive, and we can't wait to introduce him as part of our team in the near future.

We are also expanding our team, and we are recruiting;

Sales & marketing: Are you a sales person, marketeer or a customer support person who want to roll out ShipIntel helping people involved in maritime business making better decisions, you are more than welcome to contact us.

Developers: Are you a skilled and experienced backend or frontend developer, or an experienced data scientist working with an exciting tech stack, innovative new technologies and participating in solving complex problems for the maritime industry, we want to hear from you!

At Maritime Optima you will find highly competent and passionate colleagues thriving together.