Ship Finder
Data API
One of the biggest ship databases in the world. Get data under 1 second.
Search any vessel details with Ship Finder API. Find any ship detailed information and descriptive vessel data.

Ships Finder AIS API Features:
Search Based on MMSI or IMO
Enter ship’s IMO and see data on vessel name, type, flag, TEU, year built, etc.
Unique Ship Data Details
High accuracy and detailed vessel descriptive data that is validated
Find all ships by vessel type
Get a list of all Cargo vessels in the world or drill down to subtype, ships’ flags & more
Get Data in Less Than 1 Second
Extremely fast and secure database response allows to view dozen ships at a time
Vessel Data Enrichment
Regular data enrichment processes always keep our database up-to-date
750000 Vessels in AIS Database
One of the biggest databases in the maritime API web services sector
Vessel AIS Data API Response Example
Response

About Ship Finder Data AIS API
Use vessel finder data API to retrieve all vessel stats in less than a second.
Find ship name, type (for example, Cargo vessel), subtype of the ship, vessel gross tonnage, draught, carrying capacity in TEU, ship’s flag, year built, ship’s length, breadth, deadweight data, callsign number, IMO, MMSI, etc.
The Database contains more than 750000 vessels. It is one of the biggest databases that is available on the market in the maritime data industry.
Functionalities of Ship Information API
Search an MMSI number and get detailed information about the vessel stats and descriptive data right away.
Also, the ship finder API allows you to search vessels by name and gets you similar results if you choose so. Lookup a vessel and set fuzzy=1 to get similarly named vessels and choose the one you meant to search.
You can also find all vessels of a specific type or subtype of your choice. Run a query with all Cargo ships and get thousands of Cargo ships.
Drill down and specify a list of ships you want to the subtype and even country of origin.
In this way, you can find data on all ships, for example, from China Cargo type and subtype of a high Hazard level.


Database Requests in Ship Info API
Datalastic searches data on vessels and ports and provides an API service and focuses on delivering the best experience in that niche.
Keeping sharp and focused on the product helps us achieving one of the biggest databases about vessels and ports in the world.
This allows us to support and maintain the vessel database with a high accuracy and delivery speed. Your ship finder API request will get you the output under 1 second. Typically, the response from Datalastic database takes a fraction of a second.
Ship AIS Data API Overuse Protection
All Datalastic plans and endpoints contain database Overuse Protection for our users.
Often by human mistake or some other bug in the query, you may call the MMSI number of the ship that does not exist or there might be some other issue why maritime data is missing. In that case, if there is no successful data on the ship, the API request does not count and nothing is deducted from your plan.
You are free to cancel your maritime API subscription any time you wish in case you don’t like the AIS data by Datalastic.
