Yesterday, parts of the Danish Maritime Authority’s maritime data were made available (in Danish) to the general public through the Authority’s webpage. It is the hope that the data sets made available will contribute to data-driven business development.
In the future, a wide number of maritime data sets will be freely available to the general public from data.soefartsstyrelsen.dk. One of the reasons for releasing the maritime data is a wish to contribute to the data-driven and digital development in the maritime industry.
Minister for Business and Growth Troels Lund Poulsen:
”Blue Denmark is a very important industry in the Danish business sector and, by making these data publicly available, we can hopefully contribute to the data-driven business development in the maritime industries. It is my hope that maritime companies, entrepreneurs and all Danes using the sea will make use of the data available – for example to create new applications, services and analyses that can contribute to growth throughout Blue Denmark.”
The first maritime data sets that are made available to the outside world are statistical geodata on anchorages, regatta lanes, ships’ routes in Danish waters as well as the flow of navigational warnings issued by the Danish Maritime Authority. It is also possible to buy access to high-quality position data on all merchant vessels in Danish waters, both in a web-version and in the form of raw data. In addition, it is possible to look up individual ships in the Danish Register of Shipping via the webpage of the Danish Maritime Authority.
It is the ambition to open up for more maritime data sets in the years to come.
Source: Danish Maritime Authority
