Where bound, and when — ETA for your fleet
Every ship in your fleet has always known where it was going — we just weren't listening. AIS carries two very different kinds of data: position reports every few seconds, and a slower "static and voyage" message roughly every six minutes with the vessel's type, dimensions, callsign — and its declared destination and estimated time of arrival, exactly as the crew typed them into the transponder on the bridge.
Until now the fleet list snapshotted the destination once, at the moment you starred the ship, and never touched it again. A vessel you added in June still claimed to be bound for the port it was heading to in June. And the ETA field we were not storing at all.
Voyage data that stays current
From this build, the worldwide fleet watch listens to the voyage half of those static messages too. Whenever one of your tracked vessels reports its destination or ETA — anywhere on earth, whether or not anyone is flying near it — your fleet row is updated. The same happens when a ship you track sails through anyone's live radar in-game: both feeds teach the same record.
On your fleet page, a card now reads like a proper voyage line: → ROTTERDAM · ETA 12.08. Hover it and you'll see when the ship last confirmed that plan, so you can tell a fresh report from one the crew set a week ago and forgot about.
Honest about what an ETA is
A word of caution that is really a word about AIS itself: the destination and ETA are whatever the crew entered by hand. There is no year in the format — 12.08 means the 12th of August, and the transponder trusts the humans to keep it current. Some crews update it at every port call; some type ORDERS or leave last month's port in. We show you exactly what the ship broadcasts, stamped with when we heard it, and let you judge.
Nothing changes for privacy: voyage data is only kept for vessels that are in someone's fleet, and private recreational craft can never be added to one, so their plans are never recorded. The rest of the fleet feature — last-known positions, port arrivals and departures, the 30-day movement history — works as before; this just fills in the column that was always missing: not only where a ship is, but where it says it's going, and when it means to get there.