Capt. Mooron wrote:


Yeah... all those hundreds of thousands of vessels out there and nobody
knows where they are. Let's face it Rick... according to you.. they can't be
contacted! I guess Fleet Tracking is just a wet dream!

Lets be a little more realistic here. I am sure that for each commercial vessel and many private vessels that there exists at least on person with
their feet on terra firma with a reasonable notion as to said vessel's wherabouts at any given time. I am equally sure that there does not exist a
single person or entity with information of all vessels whereabouts at the same time.

How many vessels are at sea at any given time, how many shipping companies, how many independant operators, how many ports..... and how do you collect
the required information from all of them and collate it?

Cheers
Marty


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