Maritime technology insights, tutorials, and API guides
How to receive automatic email alerts when a vessel enters or leaves a port — a self-hosted AWS Lambda + SES pipeline you can deploy in an afternoon, with parallel Claude Code instructions throughou...
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Six classification societies, six different ways to encode the same ship. We parsed all of them. Classification notation data for 33,000+ vessels across ClassNK, DNV, Bureau Veritas, CCS, RINA, and Ko...
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Track crude oil tanker departures from Russian Black Sea ports, query vessel emissions and inspections, and build commodity flow signals using Claude MCP and VesselAPI.
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How we replaced bcrypt API key verification with HMAC-SHA256 and an in-memory cache, cutting authentication overhead from 946ms to under 10ms, eliminating database queries on the hot path, and survivi...
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How we migrated a maritime AIS platform from MongoDB to TimescaleDB, built two-layer spatial indexing with H3 and PostGIS, and found 240 dead struct tags from the old world.
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The Strait of Hormuz has effectively shut down. VLCC rates hit $770K/day, the Clarksea Index broke its all-time record, and ships are running the strait with their transponders off. Here's what the nu...
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We process a million AIS messages per hour. Four out of ten are garbage. This is how we built a four-layer filtering pipeline to catch phantom ships, GPS glitches, and spoofed positions.
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A single prompt pulled live AIS, EU MRV emissions, and port state inspections into a structured intelligence briefing for Rotterdam via MCP and VesselAPI.
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