Today we at ShipScene are celebrating the launch of V2.0, now available for vessel tracking worldwide using the latest in web 2.0 technology. It is the first application worldwide created from the ground up in Silverlight 4.0 with the purpose of tracking and displaying vessels and maritime information in conjunction with Microsoft's Bing mapping engine. Microsoft Silverlight is an advanced application framework that has been designed to run browser plug-ins and Rich Internet Applications across all major platforms (therefore if you are using an Apple Mac, the application will still operate). This allows for a user experience that far exceeds any existing Vessel Tracking software that use HTML and other mapping engines.

The system boasts a brand new, modern and informative web portal, with a tracking application named My ShipScene that runs either as a stand-alone on your desk top, or from within your browser. The service is free to use for basic tracking requirements or the user can purchase additional functionality online via the e-commerce platform with a credit card or by EFT.

Further to this, My Shipscene is the only application of this kind that uses the common, IMO sanctioned, Automated Identification System (AIS) standard as well supplementary shipping data from a database that contains almost the entire world fleet and displays this data on a map indicating the vessels bearing, proportional size and type.

My ShipScene offers the following features, several of which are unique to this application and a first for the industry:
• Full interpretation and decoding of AIS
• Notifications and notification summaries on multiple geographic zones
• Bi-Directionl Notification engine - i.e.: Notifications when a vessel is leaving and/or entering a zone
• Geographically accurate representation of - Vessel Length and Beam - Vessel Heading - Exact Vessel location relative to the on-board position of the AIS transmitter
• Isolation of a single vessel and the ability to view the last 1000 locations of the vessel as an animation (see vessel 'tail' image)
• User created zones (privately available to a user)
• Report scheduling using SQL Server Reporting Services (see image attached)
• A full portal for shipping and industry related news and information on the new web site ShipScene 2.0 (developed in ASP.net 4.0)
• World AIS feed
• Weather and related information
• Now tracking vessels in 130 international ports

Please feel your away around the new website and application - you can find out all your need to know on the FAQ and Demo page (note: demo page requires latest adobe flash on your system).

We look forward to having you on board with us on our new journey and encourage you to take the poll on our new web portal to let us know what you think of our new service!

The Team at ShipScene (Pty) Ltd www.shipscene.com +27-79-8894957