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Ship Finder works by picking up AIS ship feeds used by commercial vessels and pleasure craft to transmit their name, position, MMSI, status and lots more. Our servers add additional information such as route history and photos for presentation on shipfinder.co and in our Ship Finder apps. The AIS data comes to us either from our own receivers or from people with receivers who share their data with us over the internet. If you are a marine professional or AIS hobbyist we’ll be delighted to receive your data for use within the app. For more details on how you can help please see our coverage page. We know that this website and the apps are used by a huge range of people including professionals such as port pilots and dockside workers, by ship spotters and maritime enthusiasts, and by anyone who just wants to track a friend or is curious about the ships and yachts out on the water. We hope that you enjoy Ship Finder however you use it!