eeSea
eeSea is a Danish maritime technology company that provides a B2B data and analytics platform for container vessel schedules, real-time tracking, transit-time statistics, and schedule reliability, serving ports and terminals, ocean carriers, and cargo owners. The company was acquired by Xeneta in 2025 and now operates as "eeSea by Xeneta."
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2015
- HeadquartersCopenhagen, Denmark
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What eeSea does
eeSea (eeSea ApS, now marketed as "eeSea by Xeneta") is a Danish maritime technology company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Copenhagen. It operates a maritime intelligence platform that combines container vessel schedules, real-time vessel tracking, transit-time statistics, schedule reliability analytics, liner network benchmarking, and trade-lane capacity / throughput insights into a single B2B data and analytics offering. The product is delivered through a web application (app.eesea.com) and organized into three vertical-aligned modules: Ports & Terminals (for port authorities, terminal operators, and port ecosystem stakeholders), Ocean Carriers (for liner operators and vessel owners), and Cargo Owners (for shippers and logistics providers). Underlying capabilities include vessel delay forecasting and schedule reliability scoring, positioned against an industry pain point that "50% of all vessels are more than 8 hours late." The platform includes a Tableau Online SSO integration for embedded analytics use.
The company runs a sales-led, enterprise go-to-market with a prominent "Request demo" call-to-action and no publicly disclosed pricing, indicating quote-based annual subscriptions. Revenue is generated through B2B data subscriptions and data monetization to supply chain decision-makers across the three named verticals. Following the 2025 acquisition by Oslo-based Xeneta AS (announced 2025-08-18, terms undisclosed), eeSea's demo and sales motion has migrated into Xeneta's go-to-market, and the combined offering couples eeSea's service-level analytics with Xeneta's freight rate data, enabling cargo owners to negotiate contracts on service levels as well as cost. Pre-acquisition, eeSea had raised modest seed funding (approximately $571K total across two 2016–2017 rounds) and operated with a 11–50 employee headcount; specific revenue figures are not disclosed.
eeSea firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- eeSea
- Legal name
- eeSea ApS
- Website
- https://eeSea.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2015
- Operating status
- Acquired
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Short description
- eeSea is a Danish maritime technology company that provides a B2B data and analytics platform for container vessel schedules, real-time tracking, transit-time statistics, and schedule reliability, serving ports and terminals, ocean carriers, and cargo owners. The company was acquired by Xeneta in 2025 and now operates as "eeSea by Xeneta."
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
eeSea industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Maritime Data and Analytics
- NAICS
- Freight Transportation Arrangement (488510), Support Activities for Water Transportation (4883), Port and Harbor Operations (48831)
- SIC
- Arrangement Of Transportation Of Freight & Cargo (4731), Water Transportation (4400)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Ocean Container Visibility (Vessel, Container, Demurrage/Detention) (TLAEADAF)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Cargo Visibility, Track & Trace & Port Analytics (ETA/ETD, Dwell, Predictive) (TLAHAOAH), Maritime EDI / API Connectivity & Messaging Networks (TLAHAOAE)
Keywords
Where eeSea is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Copenhagen
- HQ country
- Denmark
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices1 record
Markets served
eeSea business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations
Revenue model
- Data & analytics subscriptions (ports, carriers, cargo owners): B2B subscription-style access to eeSea's maritime intelligence platform (vessel schedules, reliability analytics, transit times, capacity / throughput data) sold to port authorities, terminal operators, ocean carriers, and cargo owners / logistics providers. No pricing is publicly disclosed, indicating contract-based enterprise licensing.
- Data monetisation to logistics decision-makers: Monetisation of curated maritime datasets and forecasts (schedule reliability, transit time, liner network) as decision-support data assets for supply chain stakeholders.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Other | Annual | Quote-based enterprise subscription; no public price list. |
Go-to-market motion2 records
Distribution channels2 records
Marketing channels5 records
eeSea product offering
Product offeringCore offering
eeSea provides real-time container vessel schedules, forecasts, transit-time statistics, schedule reliability analytics, and trade-lane capacity/throughput benchmarking for the global container shipping industry. The platform serves port authorities and terminal operators, ocean carriers, and cargo owners, enabling them to measure, predict, and proactively act on vessel delays and to negotiate contractual on-time performance.
Product overview
eeSea is a maritime intelligence platform that, following its 2025 acquisition by Xeneta, is offered as "eeSea by Xeneta". The offering is a single core platform — Container Vessel Schedules & Forecasts — packaged with three customer-segment modules (Ports & Terminals, Ocean Carriers, and Cargo Owners) that reuse the same underlying vessel schedule, transit time, reliability, and trade lane capacity data. Customers access the platform through the eeSea app (app.eesea.com) and request demos via the Xeneta demo flow, with a built-in Tableau Online SSO link in the footer for analytics.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- eeSea by Xeneta: Post-acquisition co-branded product offering positioning eeSea's maritime intelligence platform under the Xeneta corporate umbrella following the 2025 acquisition.
Products and services
- eeSea Platform (Container Vessel Schedules & Forecasts) Core maritime intelligence SaaS platform providing real-time container vessel schedules, forecasts, transit time data, and schedule reliability analytics for ports, carriers, and cargo owners.
- Ports & Terminals Module Module tailored to port authorities, terminal operators, and the wider port ecosystem (tugs, pilots, truck and rail operators), delivering vessel forecasts to optimize asset utilization, schedule reliability statistics for stakeholder conversations, and liner network, transit time, capacity and throughput benchmarking.
- Ocean Carriers Module Module built for liner operators and vessel owners to benchmark and measure performance, equipping carrier sales forces with transit times and market knowledge, supporting tender responses, and enabling negotiation of contractual on-time performance with terminals and cargo owners.
- Cargo Owners Module Module for cargo owners and logistics providers delivering confidence in supply chain events such as vessel arrivals to enable just-in-time operations, lower costs, and avoid out-of-stocks by providing advance visibility into vessel delays.
- eeSea App Authenticated web application where customers access eeSea's maritime intelligence platform, including schedules, forecasts, transit time data, reliability analytics, and trade-lane capacity insights.
Quantifiable outcome
- Addresses a market where 50% of all vessels are more than 8 hours late, enabling advance visibility to mitigate the cost of these delays.
- +1 more outcomes
Companies that use eeSea
Customer profileSegments3 records
Ideal customer profiles3 records
eeSea technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration1 record
AI capability4 records
Feature5 records
eeSea partnerships and signals
Strategic signalScale indicators5 records
Recent moves5 records
Expansion highlights5 records
eeSea competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- MarineTraffic: MarineTraffic operates one of the largest global vessel-tracking and AIS data platforms, serving ports, terminals, carriers, and cargo owners with vessel positions and port-call intelligence. It competes with eeSea at the vessel-tracking and port-call layer, though it is more consumer-leaning and less focused on contractual reliability benchmarking.
- Windward: Windward is a maritime AI company providing vessel tracking, ETA predictions, and risk/compliance analytics to ocean carriers, ports, and governments. It is the closest pure-play maritime specialist comparable to eeSea, competing on vessel forecasts and schedule reliability for the same port and carrier buyer personas.
Emerging players
- Portcast: Portcast is a Singapore-based maritime analytics startup providing vessel ETA predictions and container tracking for ocean carriers, ports, and shippers. It is a direct emerging competitor to eeSea in predictive vessel arrival and schedule reliability for containers, with comparable AI-led positioning.
- Vizion API: Vizion API exposes ocean container tracking and vessel schedule data via API for shippers, 3PLs, and TMS vendors. It competes with eeSea at the programmatic ocean-visibility data layer and addresses some of the same cargo-owner and logistics-provider use cases, though primarily through developer/API distribution rather than an enterprise SaaS app.
- FleetMon: FleetMon provides global vessel tracking and AIS-based port call intelligence to ports, maritime professionals, and shippers. It overlaps with eeSea in vessel and port-call data for maritime operations, but skews more towards vessel-tracking display and less towards contractual schedule reliability and benchmarking analytics.
Broad incumbents
- project44: project44 is a global multimodal supply chain visibility platform with strong ocean carrier, terminal, and shipper coverage. It competes with eeSea in the ocean-visibility layer that ports, carriers, and cargo owners use to anticipate vessel arrivals and delays, but operates across road, rail, air and ocean rather than specialising in containers.
- FourKites: FourKites is a supply chain visibility platform offering real-time ocean, road, rail, and air tracking with predictive ETA analytics. It competes head-on with eeSea in ocean schedule reliability and dynamic ETA for shippers and 3PLs, but as a broad, multimodal incumbent rather than a container specialist.
- Descartes Systems Group: Descartes provides logistics technology including ocean visibility, customs, and trade compliance solutions to shippers, carriers, and 3PLs. It overlaps with eeSea in providing ocean ETA and tracking data to enterprise logistics teams, but as a horizontal logistics-software incumbent with broader scope than container scheduling.
- Xeneta: Xeneta is the Oslo-based freight rate benchmarking platform that acquired eeSea in 2025, combining ocean freight rate intelligence with eeSea's schedule and reliability analytics. It is the parent and most direct strategic complement to eeSea, addressing overlapping enterprise cargo-owner and carrier buyers.
- Kuehne+Nagel (KN FreightNet / myKN): Kuehne+Nagel is one of the world's largest freight forwarders with its own ocean visibility and supply chain platforms (KN FreightNet, myKN). It competes with eeSea for ocean ETA and schedule-reliability decision-making inside cargo-owner supply chain teams, but as part of a much broader logistics and forwarding portfolio.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat4 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
eeSea social profiles
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Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
eeSea leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles3 records
eeSea funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds2 records
Investors2 records
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eeSea M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
Frequently asked questions about eeSea
What does eeSea do?
eeSea provides real-time container vessel schedules, forecasts, transit-time statistics, schedule reliability analytics, and trade-lane capacity/throughput benchmarking for the global container shipping industry. The platform serves port authorities and terminal operators, ocean carriers, and cargo owners, enabling them to measure, predict, and proactively act on vessel delays and to negotiate contractual on-time performance.
Is eeSea a public or private company?
eeSea is a private company. It is classified as corporate owned and is currently acquired.
When was eeSea founded?
eeSea was founded in 2015. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is eeSea based?
eeSea is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, in the Europe region.
How does eeSea make money?
Two revenue lines are on record. Data & analytics subscriptions (ports, carriers, cargo owners) is the primary driver. The others are data monetisation to logistics decision-makers.
Who are eeSea's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are MarineTraffic and Windward. Emerging players are Portcast, Vizion API and FleetMon. Broad incumbents are project44, FourKites, Descartes Systems Group, Xeneta and Kuehne+Nagel (KN FreightNet / myKN).
Does eeSea have an API?
No public API is recorded for eeSea.
What industry is eeSea in?
eeSea's product category is Maritime Data and Analytics. Its primary akta.pro industry code is TLAEADAF, Ocean Container Visibility (Vessel, Container, Demurrage/Detention), with a secondary code of TLAHAOAH, Cargo Visibility, Track & Trace & Port Analytics (ETA/ETD, Dwell, Predictive). Its NAICS code is 488510 and its SIC code is 4731.