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Live AIS ship tracking: any vessel, the ships near any place, port arrivals and trends at sea.
Remote server: your requests and data go to shiptrail.io. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http shiptrail https://shiptrail.io/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
search_ships — Find ships by name, MMSI (9 digits) or IMO number (7 digits): every ship with a Shiptrail page, any class, on the map now or heard in the laget_ship — Everything Shiptrail's page shows about one ship, by MMSI: identity, size, position, speed, course and status, destination and ETA, where shsearch_ports — Find ports by name or UN/LOCODE. Busy ports come first, with how many ships are in port, en route and lately departed. Use get_port with a Uget_port — A port's Arrivals board (ships in port now, then ships en route by ETA) and Departures board (ships that left in the last 48 hours), as its get_ships_near — The ships on the live map within a radius of a port (UN/LOCODE) or a point (lat and lon), nearest first: who each is, where, how fast and whget_trends — What the live fleet shows now, as Shiptrail's Trends page reads it: the ports where most ships wait at anchor and for how long, the ports moNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.