Ships crossing the strait, every day
Ships crossing a strait each day, by type, with a trade note.
What it does
Every day: ships that crossed your strait or channel area (live AIS), by type, with a short trade note by xMap AI for the shipping analysts, saved to Google Drive.
In one sentence: Every day at 23:00, in Istanbul, watch the ships, see which enter the zone, clean up their categories, write a report with xMap AI, then create file from text in Google Drive and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Straits show trade flows in real time. Analysts get a daily count without paying for a full feed.
Who it is for
Ports, shipping & maritime. Port operators, ship agents, marine suppliers, terminals and marinas following vessels, weather and the business around the water. Every use case for ports & shipping
Best use cases
- A shipping analyst
- A commodity trader
- A maritime journalist
What each run gives you
- A note in Google Drive
The time it saves
Every day at 23:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 30 minutes each time; it runs about 30 times a month, so it saves about 15 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 8 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every morningTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- The straitWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Ships in the straitxMap data · Ships (AIS)Ships at sea or in port right now, from AIS (the signal ships send with their position, speed and heading; live from AISStream): every vessel heard in the Area of interest before this block, or around a point.
- Crossed the straitLogic · Zone alertReports items (ships, for example) that entered, crossed, are inside or left a zone.
- Sort by typexMap AI · Place classifierAssigns clean categories and merges duplicate places.
- Write the trade notexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Save the note to Google DriveApp · Google DriveCloud storage and file backup
- Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- Zone alerts: know when something enters an area: Ships, vehicles or any moving item crossing your zone.
- Ships (AIS): Ships in a sea area, their type, speed and destination.
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- Draw your areas and points: Shapes, circles and points with a distance around each.
- Geofencing: A virtual boundary that triggers something when an item enters or leaves it.
- AIS (ship tracking): Radio messages ships send with their identity, position and course.
- How to be alerted when ships enter a port area: A zone, a live AIS stream and an alert.
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