Nearest vessels reporting AIS positions

vessel_traffic8 fields8 of these fields open in the demo

Source: BarentsWatch / Kystverket AIS snapshot
Geography: Around the address
Reported stale after: 2 hours
Access: Requires an API key granted this section
Contract version: 1
In packages: environment_nuisance

What this does not say

Quoted verbatim from the section’s warnings field, exactly as the API returns it. They are not translated: a translation would show something other than what your response actually contains.

Latest known position per vessel within roughly 10 km, from the last six hours; a snapshot of shipping activity, not a traffic statistic. Vessel identifiers are public AIS data.

Fields

2 of 8 fields are value fields — the ones that decide whether a record actually says anything. The rest are context: identifiers, codes and timestamps. Fields marked “open” return values to anonymous callers; the rest require a key.

Field	Type	Role	Demo
mmsi	string \| null	context	open
ship_name	string \| null	value	open
ship_type	integer \| null	context	open
speed	number \| null	context	open
course	number \| null	context	open
destination	string \| null	context	open
straight_line_distance_m	integer \| null (m)	value	open
updated_at	string \| null	context	open

Fetch this section

curl -H "X-API-Key: $APPROACH_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.approach.no/api/v1/addresses/285717643?include=vessel_traffic"

# paginated, one section at a time
curl -H "X-API-Key: $APPROACH_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.approach.no/api/v1/addresses/285717643/sections/vessel_traffic?limit=25"

Try it now

This is a real call against the public demo, from here. What appears below is what the API returned — not a sample.