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Posted Oct 01, 2023 - 00:00 UTC
Scheduled
Spire Maritime announces end of life for the Vessels API from 2023-10-01
Since early 2022, users of Vessels API have been advised to migrate to the Maritime 2.0 Vessels 2.0 GraphQL API. All product enhancements & bug fixes now only occur in the Maritime 2.0 GraphQL API. There are no reasons to continue to use the Vessels API and customers are now expected to migrate to the newer product.
are requested to switch to using the Maritime 2.0 Vessels 2.0 GraphQL API by 2023-09-30
From 2023-10-01 the Vessels API will be turned off.
Maritime 2.0 GraphQL API is the future of Vessels Data API Services
Spire Maritime are continually working to improve the performance of our API services and to scale the systems to perform well with the continually growing volumes of data and clients. Maritime 2.0 GraphQL is the API platform that provides stable, scalable, performant vessels data services going forward.
The benefits of the Maritime 2.0 GraphQL API:
Improved scalability & performance of API platform New more flexible and easy to use APIs using GraphQL. Improved and more accurate vessel identification mechanism: Recognizing and resolving where possible duplicate vessels reporting using the same MMSI number. Recognizing and resolving where possible duplicate vessels reporting using the same IMO number. Improved Terrestrial AIS with additional data not available in Vessels API Option to subscribe to real time satellite AIS. Extended coverage of Vessel Characteristics data, twice as many fields and vessels as reported by EVD data in Vessels API. Additional feature options: port, terminal, anchorage and canal events through graphQL query endpoints portEventsByShipType, portEventsByShipVessel or portEventsByShipLocation Future new features all released through graphQL.
Supporting customer migration Spire Maritime are happy to offer online technical training in use of the Maritime 2.0 GraphQL API to each client migrating from the Vessels API.