Physical World Intelligence

The Bridge.

See the physical economy in real time. Live vessels, 463 infrastructure assets across 56 categories, earthquakes, storms, wildfires, inventories, charter rates, supply-chain maps, and AI signals — all on one screen.

Built for commodity traders, shipping & chartering desks, marine insurers, energy analysts, supply-chain managers, governments & intelligence teams, journalists, academic researchers, and the AI agents they deploy.

463infrastructure assets
56asset categories
12live data fetchers
38Baltic charter routes
Trusted by desks at
TRADING HOUSE · HEDGE FUND · ENERGY DESK · SHIPPING CO · UNDERWRITER · BANK
The Operating System

One map. Every physical flow. Every charter market.

The Bridge gives commodity desks, charterers, and AI agents real-time situational awareness over the physical economy. From an oil field in the Permian to an LNG carrier bound for Tokyo, from a Wednesday EIA print to a fixture announcement in Singapore — all on one screen.

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60k+ live vessels

Real-time AISStream + bulk NOAA registry. Tankers, LNG/LPG carriers, bulk & container ships. Filter by type, speed, load %, destination. Pusher WebSocket — zero polling.

463 infrastructure assets

56 categories: refineries, LNG terminals, pipelines, ports, mines (coal/uranium/lithium/cobalt/rare earth/gold), steel mills, semiconductor fabs, battery plants, FPSOs, naval bases, hydrogen hubs, palm oil mills, and more.

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Real-time world events

Live USGS earthquakes, NOAA hurricane tracks, wildfires, port closures, sanctions, conflict zones. Auto-refreshing every 15 minutes.

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Live commodity prices

WTI, Brent, Natural Gas, Gold, Silver, Copper, Aluminum, Soybeans, Wheat, Corn, Cotton, Sugar. Real-time FMP feed + Pusher ticker.

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Intelligence briefing

Morning briefing with 34 signal types: inventory extremes, LNG outages, arb windows, storm threats, rig count moves. Real-time Pusher alerts.

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Weather forecast

7-day forecast for any point on the map. Temperature, wind, precipitation, cloud cover. Marine conditions: wave height, period, swell direction.

Draw & analyze

Draw circles, polygons, rectangles. Instant region analysis: vessel count, cargo estimate, infrastructure, events. Save to named collections as reusable map layers.

Favorites & collections

Star any vessel, terminal, or event. Organize into named groups. Full table view with search, type filter, pagination. Drawing collections as toggleable map layers.

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Real-time push

Pusher WebSocket integration. Live vessel movement, instant signal toasts, price ticker flashes, arb spread updates. Zero polling, sub-second latency.

Charter Board

16 Baltic Exchange routes (TD3C, TC2, C3, BLNG1g...), live charter rates, fixture log with vessel/charterer/owner/route, voyage estimator with TCE calculation.

Supply chain mapping

Click any infrastructure asset to see upstream sources and downstream destinations. Visual arcs on the map. Refinery → ports, oil field → pipeline, lithium mine → battery plant.

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EIA Wednesday alerts

Auto-detects EIA Weekly Petroleum Status Report drop. Switches to 2-min polling Wed 10:25-11:00 AM ET. Pusher alert when fresh data lands.

AI intelligence

Natural-language search, vessel context summaries, flow analysis — powered by GPT-4. Ask anything in plain English.

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API, CLI & MCP

Full REST API, command-line tool, and MCP server for AI agents. Same data your traders see, one JSON call away.

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Route Planner

Plan a voyage between any two points. Toggle 12 maritime gateways (Suez, Panama, Malacca, Drake, Magellan, Kiel, Oresund, Corinth, Messina, NE/NW Passage, Gibraltar). Outputs total nm, ECA distance, transit list. Save planners for re-runs as conditions change.

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OFAC sanctioned vessels

1,400+ vessels from the US Treasury SDN list — Iran, Russia, Cuba, North Korea shadow fleet. 🚫 badge on any matching live AIS vessel. Updated daily. Compliance + dark-fleet visibility.

Polygon flow A↔B

Bloomberg-style: draw two polygons, count vessels that traveled from A to B and from B to A in the lookback window. Per-type breakdown, est. cargo. Catch shifts in trade flow before they hit the news.

Scheduled queries

Save any query and run it on a cadence. Pro: daily. Enterprise: hourly or every 10 min. Get pinged when results change. Works for NL questions, filter snapshots, or CLI commands.

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In-browser CLI

Same commands as the Python CLI — try them in a terminal modal without installing anything. ↑/↓ history, tab completion, abort with one click. Perfect for testing automation before scripting it.

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10 languages

Full interface in English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, German.

Open the live map. No signup required to look around.

Launch the App →
For developers & AI agents

Give your agents the physical world as context.

Access every NTHMAP dataset via REST API, CLI, or MCP server. The same data your traders see on the map is one JSON call away.

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REST API

curl https://nthmap.com/api/vessels \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ntm_live_..." \
  --get --data-urlencode "bbox=54,25,58,28"
API reference →

CLI

$ nthmap vessels list --bbox 54,25,58,28 \
    --types "Crude Tanker" --min-load 80
NAME               TYPE          LOAD%  SPEED  DEST
GULF NAVIGATOR     Crude Tanker    93%   12.4   NLRTM
OCEAN MERIDIAN     Crude Tanker    87%   11.8   USHOU
CLI docs →

MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nthmap": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "nthmap_mcp"],
      "env": { "NTHMAP_API_KEY": "ntm_live_..." }
    }
  }
}
MCP docs →

Ready to see the world as it moves?

Open the live map in your browser — nothing to install.