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AIS Trail

MCP serverVerified domain · aistrail.comRemote● LiveFree to try

Live AIS ship positions, vessel history, port calls and events, plus sanctions flags. Read-only.

Install

Remote server: your requests and data go to api.aistrail.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http ais-trail https://api.aistrail.com/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.

What it can do

The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.

  • search_vessels — Find ships by name (or part of it), MMSI (9 digits) or IMO number (7 digits). Returns live ships first, then ships out of range with their l
  • get_vessel — Everything known about one ship now: identity (name, IMO, call sign, flag, type, size), last position, speed, course, heading, navigational
  • vessels_in_area — Ships heard in the last hour inside a box (at most 5° on each side), largest first. List results are compact rows (mmsi, name, category, fla
  • vessels_near — Ships heard in the last hour within a radius (at most 50 nautical miles) of a point or of another ship, nearest first. List results are comp
  • vessel_track — Where a ship has been between two times (UTC, ISO 8601), from the AIS Trail archive. Needs an AIS Trail account: sign in when the MCP client
  • data_status — How many ships are live now (live_ships_private: how many of them are private vessels, counted only), how many are known from the last 7 day
  • find_port — Find ports by name (or part of it), UN/LOCODE (e.g. FIHEL) or two-letter country code (e.g. FI) in the port reference (World Port Index and
  • vessel_port_calls — Port calls of a ship between two times (UTC, ISO 8601), from the AIS Trail archive: port, arrival, departure, draught on arrival and departu
  • port_calls — Ships that called at one port between two times (UTC, ISO 8601), from the AIS Trail archive: ship (with its flag from the MMSI), arrival, de
  • expected_arrivals — Ships that have not arrived yet at one port, from the port's own records: estimated arrival and departure (UTC), berth and declared previous
  • vessel_events — Events of a ship between two times (UTC, ISO 8601), computed from the AIS Trail archive. from and to are optional: without to, now (24 hours
  • lookup_vessels — Records of up to 20 ships at once from the AIS Trail archive, by mmsi and/or imo (lists): identity and particulars (name, IMO, call sign, ty

KitScout test notes

Not tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.

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