# MarineTraffic Vessel MCP

> MarineTraffic Vessel MCP is a paid API for AI agents from api.m2mcent.com, paid per call via x402, $0.15/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Retrieves vessel tracking and marine traffic data for ships, ports, and maritime activity via a natural-language MCP interface.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.m2mcent.com/marinetraffic-vessel-mcp/api/process
- Price: $0.15/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/marinetraffic-vessel-mcp-8c645ba6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_sYqNhL_XPtnym9KPzY0Uv

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability marinetraffic-vessel-mcp-8c645ba6 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you find the current position and status of the container ship MSC Gülsün — I need its last known coordinates, speed, and ETA at its next port?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need real-time or historical vessel tracking, port call data, or AIS-based maritime intelligence and the query can be expressed in natural language. Prefer this over raw MarineTraffic API calls when an MCP-style conversational interface is acceptable and you want to avoid managing API key authentication directly. Best suited for single-vessel lookups, fleet status checks, and port activity queries.

## Known failure modes

- Vessel not found if MMSI/IMO is incorrect or vessel is not AIS-equipped
- Stale position data if vessel is in an AIS dead zone (open ocean)
- Ambiguous vessel name may return multiple candidates requiring disambiguation
- Rate limiting or quota exhaustion returning an error response
- Malformed natural language query resulting in no actionable lookup
- Port name not recognized if spelled incorrectly or using local variant

## How this service works

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## Output

Returns structured maritime data including vessel name, MMSI/IMO identifiers, current GPS coordinates, speed over ground, course, heading, destination port, ETA, vessel type, flag state, and recent voyage history — sourced from AIS transponder data via MarineTraffic.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "payload": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "success": true
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/marinetraffic-vessel-mcp-8c645ba6/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.m2mcent.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.m2mcent.com/llms.txt)