# Shipping Disruption News Briefing

> 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.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/assistant-shipping-news-briefing?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.09/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/shipping-disruption-news-briefing-eb5526b2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_rLnGaPsjA8SQ-QrBWos5P

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 shipping-disruption-news-briefing-eb5526b2 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Give me a shipping disruption briefing — use 'answer' mode, look back 168 hours, and ask: 'What do recent reports say about shipping disruptions and routes used to move cargo?'

## When to prefer this

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.

## Known failure modes

- 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

## 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.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "mode": {
   "enum": [
    "answer",
    "updates",
    "changes"
   ],
   "type": "string",
   "default": "answer"
  },
  "question": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "What do recent reports say about shipping disruptions and routes used to move cargo?",
   "maxLength": 500,
   "minLength": 1
  },
  "lookback_hours": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 168,
   "maximum": 168,
   "minimum": 1
  },
  "previous_snapshot": {
   "type": [
    "string",
    "null"
   ],
   "default": null,
   "maxLength": 18000
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/shipping-disruption-news-briefing-eb5526b2/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from market.datapackvibe.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/market.datapackvibe.com/llms.txt)