Ships entering my zone
An email when a ship enters or passes through your zone, every hour.
What it does
Every hour: the ships in a port area (live AIS), and an email when one enters or passes through your zone (a berth, a channel, a port entrance).
In one sentence: Every hour at :00, in the area drawn on the map, watch the ships, see which enter the zone, then email the list to you and show them on a map.
Why it is useful
Berth planners, agents and security teams need to know who is arriving without staring at a ship tracker all day.
Who it is for
Logistics, fleet & delivery. Dispatch, fleet and delivery teams who keep goods moving around closures, weather and ports. Every use case for logistics & delivery
Best use cases
- A port agent tracking arrivals
- A terminal planning berths
- A coast guard watching an area
What each run gives you
- An email with the list
- A map of the results
The time it saves
Every hour at :00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 2 minutes each time; it runs about 720 times a month, so it saves about 24 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 6 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every hourTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Rotterdam port areaWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Ships in the areaxMap 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.
- Entered the port entranceLogic · Zone alertReports items (ships, for example) that entered, crossed, are inside or left a zone.
- Email me the shipsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
- Ships mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
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.
- 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.
- How to monitor road closures near your sites: Every few minutes, the incidents that affect your sites or fleet.
- AIS (ship tracking): Radio messages ships send with their identity, position and course.
More for Logistics, fleet & delivery
- Daily operations briefing for every hub: A daily operations briefing per hub, with a risk score and alerts for the risky ones.
- Where to put micro-fulfilment hubs: Where to put micro-fulfilment hubs: most people per warehouse first.
- Incidents near my drivers’ zones: Incidents near your drivers' zones every 15 minutes, to dispatch.
- New warehouses and distributors to sell to: New warehouses and distributors, scored, with the operations manager, into HubSpot.
- Road closures near my depots, every hour: Closures and roadworks near each depot every hour, to dispatch on WhatsApp.
- Shops to host parcel pick-up points: Shops scored as parcel pick-up points, with the owner.