Ships

The Ships dataset, originated from IHS Markit, provides indispensable information and insight to companies around the world, enabling them to address challenges while developing new opportunities and staying competitive. It aids critical decision making that supports supply-chain, logistics, compliance, defense, procurement and commercial strategies.

You can utilize this dataset to find data on 220,000+ ships, 300,000+ companies and 16,000+ ports and terminals, compare fleet performance, operations, and competitor activities, and find information on ships, companies to access forecasting tools and maritime insight. Additionally, you can confirm a ship's identity/details, which companies own, manage, and operate them, including up to seven levels of ownership and use current and historic ship and ownership intelligence, including port state control and casualty data, for operational use, risk analysis and domain awareness.

This dataset includes:

  • Unrivalled accuracy and depth of coverage for vessel characteristics and the global newbuilding book
  • Coverage on 220,000+ ships, including ships in service, broken up, under construction, newbuilding
  • Port State Control, ISM
  • 500,000 images
  • Dynamic links to comprehensive ship characteristics or port details
  • Sole originating source for assigning IMO Ship and Company numbers

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  • Primary Entity TypeOther
  • Coverage Count238,000+
  • Geographic CoverageGlobal
  • Industry CoverageConsumer, Energy and Utilities, Financials, Healthcare, Industrials, Materials, Real Estate, Technology, Media & Telecommunications
  • History Initiated1900
  • Earliest Significant Coverage1973
  • Point In TimeYes
  • Data SourceMultitude of authoritative sources including flag administrations, classification societies, ship owners and managers and more
  • Field Count100s
  • Delivery ChannelFeed
  • Delivery PlatformFTP
  • Reporting FrequencyDaily
  • Dataset LatencyWeekly
  • Dataset Size (GB)8


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