Ships for Sale

Ships.trade is a multilingual B2B marketplace for vessel sale listings, Wanted Requests, vessel search, and maritime business connections worldwide.

Ships.trade provides digital marketplace services. It does not sell vessels or process payments for vessel transactions.

What Ships.trade Can Do for You

  • Start free. Publish sale listings and Wanted Requests, search vessels, make listings available in 43 languages, and send private messages.
  • Keep your vessel list in sync for free. Share your API, website, XLS spreadsheet, or any other source with your vessel list. We automatically add new vessels to Ships.trade and remove sold ones. You can also add a vessel by email.
  • Get matches sooner. Matching notifications are coming soon: weekly on Free, daily on Pro, and instant on Enterprise.
  • Reach more people. Send 100 messages a day with Pro or 1,000 with Enterprise. Paid plans translate messages automatically.
  • Add tools as you grow. Pro includes up to 50 photos per listing and advanced statistics. Enterprise adds privacy controls, a company mailbox, and a branded subdomain.

Start free. Upgrade for more reach and business tools.

Explore Maritime Opportunities

Vessels for Sale

Browse public vessel sale listings from shipowners, brokers, sellers, representatives, and maritime companies worldwide.

Browse Vessels for Sale

Wanted Requests

Explore vessel purchase requirements published by prospective buyers, brokers, and representatives.

Browse Wanted Requests

Vessel Search

Search sale listings by vessel type, build year, DWT, GRT, LOA, draft, price, currency, and other available criteria.

Search Vessels

Marketplace Notice

Ships.trade uses automated listing checks, duplicate detection, message spam checks, and sanctions-related vessel screening to help protect the marketplace.

Marketplace participants must still independently verify vessel identity, ownership, seller authority, sanctions status, and transaction terms before entering into a transaction.

Trust & Compliance

EU-based operator

Operated by MB Unit media platform in Lithuania under applicable EU and Lithuanian law.

Sanctions screening

Automated checks compare available vessel IMO information with sanctions-related vessel data used by Ships.trade.

AI-assisted marketplace

AI helps classify commercial emails, structure vessel information, translate marketplace content, and identify message spam.

Learn about Trust & Compliance
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Our Mission and Vision


Mission: To make vessel sale and purchase opportunities easier to discover, understand, and act on worldwide.


Vision: To build a global maritime marketplace where language and distance no longer prevent the right buyers, sellers, shipowners, and brokers from finding each other.

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