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Help and Advice / Tracking Gone Haywire

« on: February 11, 2020, 09:08:53 AM »

Since Saturday the 8th of Feb the live tracking for movements to and from Goole and Howdendyke has gone completely haywire. Tracks are hours, sometimes over 24hrs old. The ships in port don't show or when they do they're 'greyed out' and don't show all the vessels actually in port. Marine Traffic, Vesselfinder etc are all the same.
Is this sort of this something that happens or has anyone heard of why this might be. We only started ship spotting last year when we moved to Swinefleet on the Ouse. We have experienced glitches and confusing info before but nothing as bad as this.
Even the ABP reports of ships in port aren't accurate. This morning it shows one ship 'on passage' yet we know (or are as sure as we can be) it is in fact in port in Goole and has been since the 8th when we saw it pass our house inbound for Goole.
If this is a normal part of ship spotting OK, but we've never experienced such a completely confusing situation before.
Any help would be appreciated. I've sent an email request to Vesselfinder and Marine Traffic but so far have not had any reply.

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Help and Advice / Re: New To This - Marine Traffic Management & Accuracy

« on: December 16, 2019, 09:03:48 AM »

Eddie, brilliant. Just what we needed. You've even solved the Blacktoft mystery, as we couldn't understand why some moored there.
So Marine Traffic is better in many ways compared to Vessel Finder? We've been using the latter because their tracking no longer shows any traffic in our area. May I ask in what way is it poor compared to Marine Traffic? Also we've noticed that Vessel Finder's tracking starts to lag once vessels get past Blacktoft.
Is all this, Marine Traffic included, down to poor coverage in this area or is there a 'technical hitch' somewhere? As we understand it these sites rely on locally based AIS stations(?)
Sorry about all the questions but as my original query said we're complete novices at this but find it fascinating.

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Help and Advice / Re: New To This - Marine Traffic Management & Accuracy

« on: December 12, 2019, 02:34:37 PM »

That's really interesting. Shows aircraft as well. Thanks

An interesting AIS source is also LocalizaTodoHTML5
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Help and Advice / Re: New To This - Marine Traffic Management & Accuracy

« on: December 11, 2019, 06:41:28 AM »

That sounds interesting. we'll have a look

Coastal Shipping magazine includes cargo details of all ships calling at one of the ports on the Ouse. The magazine is published bi-monthly.

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Help and Advice / Re: New To This - Marine Traffic Management & Accuracy

« on: December 11, 2019, 06:40:33 AM »

Thanks Ian we'll have a look at that

Try this http://www.shipais.co.uk/ and it is free.


Regards
Ian Thomas

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Help and Advice / Re: New To This - Marine Traffic Management & Accuracy

« on: December 11, 2019, 06:39:28 AM »

Thanks for the info Patrick we'll Have a look the ABP site

Hi,

The Humber anchorages are just off Spurn point, the main deep water (for larger vessels) is the furthest offshore to the North east. There are also two sheltered anchorages in the Humber entrance too.

ABP has a shipping movements page - http://www.humber.com/Live_Information/Shipping_Movements/ - updated every hour.

I use MarineTraffic for AIS, it is free and is relatively accurate, although in the last few months upriver of Hull has been degraded.

As for cargo, this may be more difficult to find out.

Best regards

Patrick

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Help and Advice / New To This - Marine Traffic Management & Accuracy

« on: December 08, 2019, 11:58:24 AM »

In June this year we bought a house that looks over the River Ouse in East Yorkshire, about a mile or so from Goole. We have a balcony outside the bedroom which enables us to get a clear and close up view of ships passing to and from the port.
We've become hooked on ship spotting now. But there are a couple of things that we can't find answers to online.
First, when we look at the AIS map on say Vesselfinder, there is an area outside the mouth of the Humber where there are always a few ships more or less stationary. Is this like a waiting area linked to traffic management? If so how do you get a general guide to how they manage marine traffic?
Second, the accuracy of expected ships seems to have gone haywire in the last few weeks. We accept that delays and changes to schedules will be inevitable. Is this normal?
Third, apart from paying an absurd amount of money is there a way to get info on what cargo's ships are carrying?
If anyone can point us to websites, books etc that will enable us to understand marine traffic better it would be appreciated.
Hope this all makes sense and hopefully someone will be able to help us.