Category "Site Updates"
Knowing which vessels are expected in a port for several weeks in advance is a true business advantage that you should not miss.
Today, discover a new dimension of vessel schedule information at FleetMon.com: FleetMon now makes full voyage schedules, routes and intermediate ports available for a large number of vessels, providing you with a new set of possibilities and advantages. Vessel schedules and port arrivals functionality has been vastly improved.
FleetMon users save time and effort thanks to the comprehensive schedule information directly integrated in the vast FleetMon.com Vessel Database. Know in advance where the vessels of your interest will pass by and which ports are visited next by looking up the voyage schedule on the vessel’s detail page.
Visit the ports of your interest and retrieve detailed information on the vessels scheduled to call in the weeks to come, for example in Hamburg, Dar Es Salaam, Surabaya, or Paramaribo. Find hundreds of ports around the world that have been added to FleetMon as part of the update.
Business analysts and researchers will appreciate that FleetMon’s powerful port call history benefits from the improvements, too. It’s easy to research a vessel’s port call history over months, for example to compare schedule and actual port calls, or to inspect the records of vessels of a given type that have called a port in a given time.
Advanced schedule data is available for a growing number of vessels. The timeframe available in schedule tables and in the history tables depends on your account level. Please refer to our Plans & Prices page for further information and don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions!
Good news for the software developers among our users: Over the last weeks, many of you came to us asking whether it is possible to link own software to the FleetMon Vessel Database and make use of this vast resource of ship information. We listened, and here is the FleetMon Personal API!
It is an HTTP API that is available to any FleetMon.com user now, out of the box. No need for setup or configuration – every user is given a Personal API key automatically. Whether XML or JSON tastes better for you as a data format, the Personal API is able to serve both, prepared freshly for you on every request.
We start off with two API functions:
The My Fleet API enables you to retrieve latest vessel positions and status from your personal My Fleet list with a simple HTTP request. It does not only return pure latitude and longitude, but a true wealth of information, including last port call detected, two photos, and current destination and ETA as reported by the ship.
My Fleet API example output
This way, you can, for example…
- create your very own fleet position map for your company homepage or intranet,
- add vessel position and status display to your in-house software,
- automate monitoring of changes in the vessels’ estimated time of arrival,
- implement your own alerting via e-mail or SMS based on vessel position and status,
- record vessel position and behavior over time and run your own analyses,
- much more…
Second, the Vessel Search API lets you look up vessels from the FleetMon Vessel Database and returns the URL of the appropriate vessel detail page. Search by IMO number, MMSI number and vessel name is supported.
If you have any of these available, you can easily point the users of your software to the detailed vessel information available on FleetMon.com:
Vessel Search API example output
Read more about the FleetMon Personal API, or start right off with the ready-to-use API URLs provided on your Personal API Info page (available after login).
My Fleet API data is updated once a day for Open accounts, four times per day for Pro accounts and every hour for Unlimited accounts. Please see the Plans and Prices page for details.
Should you require data and reports not accessible through the Personal API, our Customer API services may be for you.
Now, enjoy your XML meal! We are looking forward to your comments and success stories! Happy hacking and best regards, your FleetMon API team.
FleetMon.com’s My Fleet section has just been improved and optimized to give you quicker access to vital information: Now, My Fleet presents all important events in your fleet at first sight. Whenever one of your ships reaches a port, leaves a port, changes destination, or updates its estimated time of arrival, My Fleet will highlight this for you!
Right after opening FleetMon.com, you will find your personal start page with a quick overview of everything that happened among the ships that you are following. Move on to “My Fleet” to see all ships on the map, plus the latest notable event of your vessel’s journey in the Latest Events column. Don’t miss out on events in your fleet and react quickly!
Want to have an overview of what happened when during your vessel’s voyage? All those events are recorded in the Fleetmon Vessel Database and are available for review in the new Voyage Log on the vessel detail pages, for example, the HS DISCOVERER.
Look up regular position logs, all changes of the destination and ETA and inform yourself about port arrivals and departures – All information now available in one comprehensive table!
Please note: The Open account is restricted to the last 24 hours on the Voyage Log. Pro and Unlimited account members will be able to review longer journeys (7 days / 30 days back). For details, check our Plans and Prices page.
So log in, create or update your personal My Fleet list and follow your vessels around the globe. Your feedback is as always much appreciated!
We are introducing a new shiny labeling display.
We made the display of the vessel tracks even more precise and introduced a new modus for the last track of a selected vessel. If the vessel is on its journey for more then 24h FM Explorer will recall the traveled route to the last port visited.
The new feature will give you more insight with just a single click.
detailed display of vessels track in FM Explorer
category colors in vessels name labels in FM Explorer
Colorful labels with the name of every vessel names
are making your monitoring live easier :-)
Read more…
Finally, Fleetmon says “¡Bienvenido y Bem-vindo!” to the spanish and portuguese speaking world! We know there are a lot of you speaking these wonderful languages and we hope you enjoy the new translations as much as we do. You have feedback, suggestions or found a failure? Please let us know, we are always happy to improve!
We would like to thank all users and supporters who helped us translating over the last weeks – you made a great job and deserve the credit! Next milestones are French, Dutch and the Scandinavian languages.
You want to help us translating FleetMon into your language? Just get in touch with us!
With a small site update today, we are happy to announce two small but very useful new features on FleetMon.com.
For every active ship, FleetMon now records extensive speed statistics, so you can research average speed and maximum speed of about a quarter million vessels in the FleetMon Vessel Database right now!
Fleetmon knows average and maximum speed of more than a quarter milion vessels
Comparing “design speed” against the recorded, real-life speed and average performance is a most interesting and valuable information, for example in purchasing and chartering. Speed statistics values are available on Pro and Unlimited accounts.
Another new and practical feature are the new validity hints for vessel IMO number and Callsigns. Whenever Fleetmon comes across an IMO number or a call sign that it thinks is not valid — be it by transmission error or lazy configuration of the vessel’s AIS sender –, FleetMon will display a warning sign beneath it:
We hope that these new little tools are helpful for you! As always, let us know what you think about it – we’re looking forward to your feedback.
A nice review of the Hamburg “Hafengeburtstag”, the traditional festival in celebration of Hamburg’s maritime heritage, has just been added to our ship lover’s photo app, the Fleetmon Photobox.
Enjoy some fine pickings from this event that show the famous “Schlepperballet” (tugs’ dance), the fire-fighting boats with their fountains, Aida cruise liners and much more on the Hamburg town skyline.
If you did not do so already, download the Fleetmon Photobox for iPhone/iPad and Android smartphones and tablets.
To see the Hafengeburtstag gallery, you may need to pull down the gallery list to the top to force a refresh.
The photos were kindly arranged by our fellow member Stevo, who also organizes regular ship spotting events in Dutch, Belgian and German ports. Recommended!
Today we have the pleasure to introduce the Chinese-speaking Fleetmon. Welcome, Chinese visitors, we hope this makes the Fleetmon website and tools much easier to use for you!
Start here: http://www.fleetmon.com/zh/
and inspect the large Chinese fleet in the FleetMon Vessel Database.
We are looking forward to your feedback on the translation. If you think that something could be rephrased more clearly, don’t hesitate to send your comments to support(at)fleetmon.com.
Please note: Vessel traffic in Chinese ports is accessible only to users with a “Pro” or “Unlimited” account.
Здравствуйте наши дорогие русскоговорящие пользователи! A warm Hello to our Russian-speaking users!
Как и обещали, мы предоставляем к вашим услугам FleetMon.com на русском языке и надеемся, что Вы останетесь довольны.
Конечно, нам нужно еще многое доработать: в нашем переводе имеются некоторые «пробелы», и возможно Вам будут встречаться опечатки и ошибки, которые мы еще не успели исправить.
Однако мы не хотим больше заставлять Вас ждать и надеемся на Вашу поддержку. Чтобы сообщить нам об обнаруженных ошибках или поделиться с нами своими замечаниями и предложениями по поводу работы сайта, используйте следующую ссылку: http://www.fleetmon.com/contact
Мы ждем Ваших сообщений и будем работать над усовершенствованием нашего сайта!
As promised, we proudly present you FleetMon.com in Russian and hope you enjoy it.
Of course, there is still a “little” to do:
Our translation has some gaps and there are surely one or two typing errors and layout failures, we haven’t noticed so far.
However, we did not want to make you waiting any longer and now put our trust in your support. Please use the following link to inform us of any failures you find, improvements, suggestions and feedback: http://www.fleetmon.com/contact
We are looking forward to all your messages and will keep on improving!
FleetMon spricht deutsch! Our fellow German users can now enjoy FleetMon in their mother tongue, as many of you have asked for.
This is only a start, further languages will follow soon. Since translation is always about taste & culture & personal opinion we’d like to hear from you.
FleetMon automatically switches to your preferred language. If you would like to switch, just scroll down to the bottom of any page and click on the tiny flag icons.
Our objective is to make FleetMon available to the entire world. With your help, we can achieve this goal. We use an easy-to-use online tool that allows you to translate as much, or as little, of FleetMon as you like. There is no minimum commitment.
Translate one line words or paragraphs or an entire page—it’s up to you.
If you would like to help translating FleetMon into your language, please give us a short ping here: http://www.fleetmon.com/contact
Next language to be released: Russian!
Status of FleetMon.com translations:
