Global Merchant Fleet Data

The Global Merchant Fleet Data provides access to Signal-AXSMarine's vessel database, returning comprehensive specifications for vessels across all market verticals — dry, tanker, gas and liner — in a single response. It consolidates identity, dimensions, ownership, equipment and shipbuilding data into one structured record per vessel.

A vessel record aggregates everything known about a ship into one object: its identity (IMO, MMSI, name and ex-names), particulars (type, dimensions, capacity, flag and class), equipment (engines, alternative-fuel readiness, wind propulsion, cranes), and the full chain of ownership and management entities — all returned together.

Key Features

🚢 Comprehensive Vessel Specifications – Retrieve basic particulars, detailed technical specs, onboard equipment, ownership and shipbuilding details in a single record per vessel.

🏢 Ownership & Management – Access the complete chain of business entities per vessel — ordering company, beneficial owner, registered owner, shipowner, technical and ISM managers, and commercial operator, plus the parent shipowner and parent commercial operator, each with country and IMO number.

⚙️ Equipment & Propulsion – Inspect engines, scrubbers, alternative-fuel capability and readiness (LNG, LPG, methanol, ammonia, ethane, hydrogen, battery), wind-assisted propulsion systems, cranes and tank capacities.

📊 Range & Capacity Filtering – Narrow results by deadweight, gross/net tonnage, TEU, lane meters and cargo-tank capacity using min/max bounds.

📅 Date Filtering – Filter by built-date range or return only vessels modified since a given date for efficient incremental syncing.

🎯 Flexible Filtering – Apply filters by:

• Identity – IMO, MMSI, internal ID, current name, or ex-name
• Classification – type, subtype and status, by name or by ID
• Size – DWT, gross/net tonnage, TEU, lane meters, cargo-tank capacity
• Dates – built date range and last-modified date
• Market – set filterByOnmarket: true to return only on-market vessels

📦 Pagination & Sorting – Page through large result sets with start and limit, and order results with orderBy (e.g. ["name:desc", "imo:asc"]).

All filter parameters are optional and AND-combined; calling the endpoint with no filters returns vessels using the default paging. This GraphQL endpoint takes its input as query variables and returns a nested, structured record per vessel. For a simpler, flat response over the same database, use the REST endpoint (Global Merchant Fleet Data).

Vessel Statuses

The status response field and the status filter accept the following values (each value is either on-market or off-market):

• DELIVERED (on-market) — Active and trading; handed over from the yard to the owner and fully operational.
• LAID UP (on-market) — Temporarily out of service (e.g. low demand); kept idle but maintained for future use.
• ON ORDER (on-market) — Under construction under a firm, confirmed building contract.
• OPTION (on-market) — A contractual option to order additional ships on the original contract's terms.
• PENDING/RUMOUR (on-market) — Rumoured or under consideration; not yet confirmed by a firm contract.
• UNDER REPAIR (on-market) — Temporarily out of service while undergoing repair or maintenance.
• UNDER CONVERSION (on-market) — Being converted from one vessel type to another (e.g. tanker to FSO).
• CANCELLED (off-market) — Order terminated before build; the ship was never constructed.
• SCRAPPED (off-market) — Dismantled and no longer in existence as an operational vessel.
• TOTAL LOSS (off-market) — Lost to sinking or severe damage; no longer active or trading.