Features: Ship Category

U.S West Coast - ShipXplorer.com 

If you've ever wondered what the ship colors in ShipXplorer represent? This blog post is the answer! Each color represents the category a particular ship belongs to—for example, ships in green are cargo ships. 

To identify, simply look at the color bar containing the colors of each vessel category. 

1. Green  - cargo
2. Red - Tanker 
3. Passenger  - Blue 
4. High-Speed Craft - Yellow
5. Tug - Light blue 
6. Fishing - Orange 
7. Pleasure/sailing - Pink 
8. Other/unknown - Grey

Maritime traffic over Japan - ShipXplorer.com 

To activate this feature click on the eye icon. That's it! Or, to disable it, follow the same procedure mentioned previously. 

Vessel Categories & Types - ShipXplorer.com 

Sea traffic over Japan - ShipXplorer.com

Also, you can change the background color of the ship category bar by just clicking on it.

East Asia (Japan, South Korea, and China) - ShipXplorer.com 

Here is Tanhauser, a cargo ship (green icon), en route to Masan from Higashiharima, Japan.

Track movements at ShipXplorer - ShipXplorer.com/vessel/TANNHAUSER-IMO-9731640-MMSI-265827240