Trends Explorer
Relative interest across vessels, ports, places and lighthouses — indexed 0–100 from anonymous search and map-tracking activity.
Attribution — How Maritime Interest Arrives
How maritime interest arrives — search versus map, broken down by vessel class and source screen, with the search-to-vessel chains behind it.
Sources
Share of traced opensBy source screen
Query → vessel chains
What searches openedBy vessel class
Search / map lean per type| Vessel class | Share | Search / map mix | Lean |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cargo | 34% | Mixed | |
| Tanker | 10% | Mixed | |
| Fishing | 9% | Mixed | |
| Tug | 9% | Mixed | |
| Pleasure Craft | 9% | Mixed | |
| Passenger | 8% | Mixed | |
| Other | 8% | Mixed | |
| Sailing Vessel | 6% | Mixed | |
| SAR | 1% | Mixed | |
| Cargo - Hazard X (Major) | 1% | Mixed | |
| Dredger | 1% | Mixed | |
| Pilot Vessel | 1% | Mixed | |
| Container Ship | 1% | Search | |
| Local Vessel | 1% | Mixed | |
| Bulk Carrier | 1% | Mixed | |
| General Cargo | 1% | Search |
Frequently asked questions
What does attribution show?
How maritime interest arrives: whether people reach a vessel by searching for it or by finding it on the map, broken down by vessel class and by the screen they started from.
What is a search-to-vessel chain?
The path from a search term to the vessel someone actually opened. It shows what people typed against what they settled on, which is where name ambiguity and misspellings become visible.
Can I compare these against traffic figures?
No. Every figure is relative interest within the MarineRadar panel — how much attention something is getting compared with other entities and with its own baseline. It is not a count of vessels, voyages or cargo, and it should not be read as traffic volume.
About this data
The Trends Explorer reflects relative interest in the vessels, ports, places and lighthouses people track on MarineRadar. Every figure is an index from 0–100 — not a raw count — re-based each refresh, so read it as relative attention and rank rather than an absolute or cross-time count. Signals are derived from anonymous search and map-tracking activity across 112,000+ vessels and refreshed every few hours. A higher number means attention is growing faster, not that traffic is larger in absolute terms. It reflects what people are watching — not AIS ship positions.
The data moves in real time — so should you
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