How I Track Every Ship in the Strait of Hormuz in Real Time

21 million barrels of oil pass through the Strait of Hormuz every day. I built a real-time intelligence dashboard that tracks every vessel, detects dark ships, and monitors the crisis. Live Demo | GitHub Why I Built This During the 2019 tanker attacks, I realized there was no public tool combining vessel tracking, oil prices, and naval positions. Analysts were switching between MarineTraffic, Bloomberg, and USNI Fleet Tracker. I wanted one dashboard. What It Tracks 88+ vessels via AIS — updated every 5 seconds Dark ships — vessels with disabled transponders Brent and WTI oil prices — 90-day history (EIA + FRED) Daily transit counts — IMF PortWatch data 10 US Navy carriers — positions via GDELT/USNI 7-day maritime weather — wind warnings Breaking news — Google News RSS Tech Stack Next.js 16 + React 19 Mapbox GL JS with custom GeoJSON layers Recharts for charts Tailwind CSS 4 TypeScript Dark Ship Detection Some vessels disable AIS transponders. My approach: Detect when a vessel stops bro