Vortexa

Vortexa is a London company that tracks waterborne energy cargoes in real time. It combines AIS vessel positions, satellite imagery, port and terminal data and cargo intelligence to infer what each tanker is carrying, at what grade, loaded where and discharging where, then aggregates that into flow, floating storage and freight analytics. Coverage spans crude oil, refined products, LPG and LNG across all vessel classes, and the company added port-to-port freight pricing in 2025. The distinction a buyer must be clear about is that Vortexa is a data business, not an application business. Its web terminal exists, but the product is really the feed: an API, an Excel add-in and a Python SDK that push flow data into a trading desk's own models, risk systems and spreadsheets. That shapes the buying decision entirely. You are not evaluating workflow or usability so much as coverage, latency, the accuracy of cargo inference on the grades and routes you care about, and how the licence treats redistribution of derived numbers inside your own firm. Buyers are oil traders, shipowners and charterers, refiners, hedge funds and commodity analysts. The trade-off is cost and overlap. Market data subscriptions of this kind are priced by seat and by data scope, quoted, and sit alongside existing spend on Kpler, price reporting agencies and terminal services that partly duplicate the same picture. Cargo attribution is also inference, not measurement, so figures are estimates with an error band that matters when a position is sized on them.

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  Kpler

  Kpler: The closest direct competitor on seaborne commodity flow data, with broader coverage beyond energy into dry bulk and other commodities.

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  Vortexavs

  

  MarineTraffic

  MarineTraffic: If you only need vessel positions and port calls rather than inferred cargo composition, at a fraction of the cost.

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  Vortexavs

  

  Windward

  Windward: For risk, sanctions and behavioural analysis on vessels rather than commodity flow economics.