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Shipping Disruption News Briefing
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Shipping Disruption News Briefing is a paid API for AI agents from market.datapackvibe.com, paid per call via x402, $0.09/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).
Fetches and summarizes recent shipping and trade disruption news from BBC and ACLED sources, with support for comparing against a prior snapshot to detect changes.
Price / call$0.09
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Shipping Disruption: Sourced News and Changes: Ask about shipping and trade disruption news or compare earlier checks. Uses BBC and ACLED public headlines/summaries with source dates and links. GPT-4o via BlockRun. Limited news coverage; no live vessel tracking. Includes insufficient-evidence/no-change results. 0.09 USDC includes one question or update check, up to 8 source summaries.
Output
Returns up to 8 sourced news summaries covering shipping and trade disruption events, each with a headline, summary, source name, publication date, and link. May include an assessment of whether there is sufficient evidence of disruption or change, and can flag no-change results when comparing against a prior snapshot.
Example use cases
Weekly shipping disruption digest
“Pull together a shipping disruption briefing for the past week — I want to know what BBC and ACLED have reported about affected cargo routes and any major trade disruptions.”
Change detection since last briefing
“I got a shipping disruption briefing yesterday — here's the snapshot from that run. Can you check if anything has materially changed in the past 24 hours and flag any new disruptions?”
Red Sea route risk check
“What do recent reports say specifically about Red Sea or Suez Canal shipping disruptions? Look back over the last 168 hours and summarize what BBC and ACLED are reporting.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/assistant-shipping-news-briefing?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a sourced, citation-backed news briefing on shipping and trade disruptions — especially when you want to track changes over time using the snapshot comparison feature. Prefer it over generic web search when you need structured summaries with BBC/ACLED provenance, explicit insufficient-evidence flagging, and a consistent per-call cost of $0.09 USDC. Not suitable for live vessel tracking or real-time AIS data.
Side effects
- Insufficient news coverage for the query — returns an explicit insufficient-evidence result rather than hallucinating
- No change detected when using updates/changes mode — returns a no-change result
- lookback_hours exceeds 168 — request rejected by schema validation
- previous_snapshot too large (over 18,000 characters) — schema validation error
- Question exceeds 500 characters — rejected
- Stale or limited BBC/ACLED index — may miss very recent events not yet indexed
- GPT-4o rate limit or upstream error — service unavailable response
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| mode | string | |
| question | string | |
| lookback_hours | integer | |
| previous_snapshot | — |
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