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Re: Live ships map

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Post by b_emery » Fri, Mar 09, 2012, 9:44 PM UTC

hef19898 wrote: post #41

b_emery wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This makes me want to buy a bunch of AIS receivers and take a week or two off to travel to far flung locations to setup remote receiving locations. We've been putting them at our HF radar sites to log ship data, so that we can use the ship data in a hack to get the radars to self calibrate. The radars measure ocean currents and are in some pretty 'far flung locations'. Yes it's fun!

Besides the fun this is, setting up the recievers I mean, great hack with the self-calibrating radars, elegant and effetive, respect! Maybe one should integrate ship data to freight tracking services, so you can actually locate your container, well more the vessel!

Thanks! I believe that there are some companies that do just that (the container tracking bit that is).

Re: Live ships map

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Post by twelvechairs » Fri, Mar 09, 2012, 11:09 PM UTC

philwelch wrote: post #50

twelvechairs wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Often tankers sit out and wait for the oil price to change marginally (yes, really - its that silly). Other than that, could be many reasons including bunkering (via smaller ships), full port, repairs/servicing, etc.

It's not that silly when you work it out. You have a ship holding 2-3 million barrels of oil and a 20-40 crew. It looks like the market price of light sweet crude varies by as much as $1 per barrel per day. Which means a difference of 2-3 million dollars if you come to port today instead of yesterday.

Not silly in that sense. Silly in the pragmatic sense that expensive ships spend considerable amounts of time doing nothing...

Re: Live ships map

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Post by mildavw » Fri, Mar 09, 2012, 11:56 PM UTC

davidvaughan wrote: post #45

mildavw wrote: post #25

I built an app that combines freely available AIS data with other relevant inventory data and sell subscriptions to some local oil-spill recovery companies: http://demo.dedicatedmaps.com/

I'm building something that might be of interest to you. Would it be convenient to contact you? If so, how?

dave@mailbolt.com

Re: Live ships map

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Post by stunr69 » Mon, Mar 12, 2012, 4:43 AM UTC

speleding wrote: post #47

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #19

I live near the "oil capital of Europe" (I hate that name too), so there's quite a lot of ships floating around nearby. Very cool.

Do you mean Rotterdam? As far as I can tell it has the highest density of ships in the world.

I guess Aberdeen is the "oil capital of the world"