Maritime product updates: Smarter risk signals, stronger APIs, and a faster mobile experience

Executive summary

So far in 2026, we’ve delivered four major updates across the MarineTraffic, AIS, and Container Intelligence ecosystem: the Vessel Risk Indicator, an enhanced AIS Historical API endpoint, a redesigned MarineTraffic mobile app, and Container Intelligence API v1.3.0. Together, these releases strengthen risk visibility, improve large-scale data access, enhance mobile vessel tracking, and expand terminal-level intelligence.

These releases focus on three key themes:

• Risk & compliance intelligence: Clearer signals to evaluate vessel-related risk.
• Developer & data access enhancements: More scalable, flexible historical AIS data retrieval.
• Mobile experience & usability: A faster, clearer way to track vessels worldwide.

Each update is designed to reduce friction—whether you're assessing risk exposure, building data-driven workflows, or monitoring traffic in real time.

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New features

1) Vessel Risk Indicator

MarineTraffic now offers a Risk & Compliance service featuring a new Vessel Risk Indicator.

What it is

The Vessel Risk Indicator is a colour-coded system that helps users quickly identify potential safety, regulatory, and financial risks associated with specific vessels.

Why it matters

Assessing vessel risk often requires reviewing multiple data points across safety records, compliance signals, and financial exposure. The Vessel Risk Indicator simplifies this process by consolidating complex risk inputs into an intuitive visual signal.

This enables users to:

• Identify higher-risk vessels at a glance
• Prioritise due diligence efforts
• Strengthen compliance workflows
• Reduce exposure to operational and financial risk

Who it’s for

• Compliance teams
• Risk analysts
• Charterers and traders
• Maritime insurers
• Operations managers

Resources

Full methodology details are available in the support article.

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2) AIS – Historical API Endpoint

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We’ve enhanced our AIS offering with a more powerful and flexible Historical API endpoint.

What it is

The AIS Historical API endpoint enables large-scale retrieval of historical AIS data with improved consistency alongside AIS-Latest.

Why it matters

For data teams and developers building analytics pipelines, historical AIS retrieval must be:

• Scalable
• Reliable
• Consistent across endpoints

This release makes large-scale historical AIS data retrieval:

• More powerful
• More flexible
• Easier to integrate

Comprehensive API documentation and tutorials—including sample queries—help accelerate implementation and reduce integration time.

Who it’s for

• Data engineers
• Quantitative analysts
• Platform integrators
• Maritime intelligence teams

Resources

• API specification
• AIS API tutorial (with sample queries)

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