Industry solutions · Maritime & ports
Ports and shipping run on where things are: ships on the fairway, at anchor and alongside, cranes and cargo on the quay, a fleet spread across the oceans. Icon Map puts all of it on one live, interactive map, inside the Power BI reports and Microsoft Fabric workspaces you already use.
Every ship around Helsinki, live from Fintraffic's open AIS data (CC BY 4.0) · imagery: City of Helsinki (CC BY 4.0), Copernicus Sentinel-2 · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, OpenSeaMap, EMODnet · 3D ships in Icon Map for Fabric
Operations you can see
AIS positions, port calls, berth plans, crane and yard telemetry, voyage reports and fuel data already sit in your data platform. Icon Map shows them where they happen, so a harbor master, a terminal planner or a fleet manager sees the water, not a table: who is inbound, which berths are free, how long ships wait at anchor, which voyages are burning the most fuel.
Build port and fleet reports in Power BI with Icon Map Pro, or bring live AIS, 3D ships and playback together in Microsoft Fabric with Icon Map for Fabric. One organization-wide license, no extra GIS software.
Port operations · Helsinki, Finland
Every ship around Helsinki, live from AIS: the Tallinn and Stockholm ferries threading the islands past Suomenlinna, Finland's icebreaker fleet at Katajanokka, pilots and tugs, and the container ships at Vuosaari. The berths fill from the port's own port-call data. Zoom in to see each ship in 3D, click one for its voyage and berth, and follow it out to sea.
Live data: AIS positions and ship particulars from Fintraffic's Digitraffic Marine service (open data, CC BY 4.0), read every 10 seconds; the map runs about half a minute behind, so every ship moves between two positions it really reported. Port calls and berths: Digitraffic port call data from the Port of Helsinki's port community system. Ships are drawn from their AIS type and dimensions; models and colors are generic, not the operators' liveries. If the live feed is unavailable, a recorded evening plays instead. 3D models and live streaming are features of Icon Map for Fabric.
How it works
Terrestrial and satellite AIS, radar tracks and port community system messages flow into Fabric through Eventstream, each ship carrying its type, size, destination and port call.
Eventstream · Eventhouse · OneLakeBerths, quays, fairways, depths and aids to navigation from your GIS and the nautical chart, terminal yards and cranes from your terminal operating system, and 3D models for every ship type.
Your GIS · Icon Map Catalog · your modelsWatch the port live or replay any period, follow a ship, and measure berth occupancy, waiting time, turnaround and emissions with every chart in the report filtering together.
Icon Map for Fabric · Icon Map ProFor shipping companies · Global trade
Real daily transits through 28 maritime chokepoints since 2019, from the IMF's PortWatch, drawn on the world's sea lanes. Drag the timeline to watch traffic leave the Red Sea for the Cape of Good Hope, and click a chokepoint for its history by ship type.
Sources: UN Global Platform; IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org). Daily chokepoint transit calls, estimated from AIS; summed by Icon Map into weekly totals, with the latest days in daily detail. Shipping density: World Bank and IMF, Global Shipping Traffic Density (CC BY 4.0). Sea lanes: Eurostat MARNET via searoute (EUPL-1.2). Ship flows on the globe are drawn in proportion to each chokepoint's transits on the chosen date; individual ships are illustrative.
For shipping companies · Voyage planning
Choose a voyage, a ship and a speed. Icon Map routes it on the sea-lane network every way it can go, and puts the distance, the days, the fuel, the CO2, the EU ETS bill and the high-risk areas on the way side by side.
Routes: shortest paths on the Eurostat MARNET sea-lane network (via searoute, EUPL-1.2). Shipping density: World Bank and IMF, Global Shipping Traffic Density (CC BY 4.0). Fuel: the ship class's main engine consumption scaled by the cube of speed, plus auxiliary engines; CO2 from the IMO conversion factor for very low sulfur fuel oil. EU ETS: the share of emissions covered for voyages to, from and within the EU and EEA, at the stated allowance price. High-risk areas are drawn approximately from the Joint War Committee's listed areas. Estimates for illustration, not voyage advice.
For shipping companies · Fleet performance
A fleet's position, schedule, fuel and carbon on one map. Rank the ships by what matters this week, from ETA slippage to the IMO carbon intensity rating, and click one to see its voyage, the weather around it and its EU ETS liability so far this year.
The fleet, its schedules and its fuel figures are simulated for demonstration, sailing real sea lanes; ratings use the IMO CII method for each ship type and this year's required reduction. Weather around each ship: live from Open-Meteo's marine and weather forecasts (CC BY 4.0). Shipping density: World Bank and IMF, Global Shipping Traffic Density (CC BY 4.0).
Across ports, terminals and shipping lines
Every ship live with its type, speed and destination, inbound queues and movements in the fairways, as the harbor master sees them.
Berth occupancy, ETA against plan, waiting time at anchor and turnaround by berth and terminal, on the map and in the berth plan.
Crane productivity, yard density and equipment moves from the terminal operating system, block by block, in 3D.
Pilot boats, tugs and their jobs on the water, boarding points and transit times, utilization by area and hour.
Positions, schedules, speed and consumption for a whole fleet, with ETA risk and route choices measured against each other.
CO2 by voyage, at berth and in EU waters, EU ETS and FuelEU exposure and CII ratings, from the noon reports you already file.
War-risk and high-risk areas, chokepoint disruption and port congestion against your routes and cargo, as it changes.
Protected areas, emission control areas, ice, weather and incidents beside the traffic, for planning and investigation.
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