~01/7/2025 – PACTRACS Users,

This is to inform you that if you are having trouble logging into PACTRACS or notice a slow down, you’re not alone.  Here is an email I received from our IT department concerning the issue.

“Our connection thru ACS is experiencing a degradation of service thru Seattle.  This does not affect all Internet connectivity but does affect a lot of it.  Connectivity to PACTRACS is degraded.  These outages have been occurring since Saturday and last an hour or two.”

~MXAK Staff

~11/20/2024 – PACTRACS Users,

We will have a booth at the Pacific Marine Expo for the next few days.  If you have questions about PACTRACS, IT, or finance  there will be representatives from those departments there to help answer your questions or,.... just stop by and say Hi....our booth is in the Alaska Hall.

~6/27/2024 10:00am ADT

Greetings, MXAK Members,

We’re always looking for ways to improve your experience with our products.  With that in mind we have developed a new way for you to track vessel positions through our vessel tracking technology in a partnership with TimeZero, “A full marine navigation software solution.”  You now have a choice in vessel tracking services between our traditional, web-based PACTRACS, and TimeZero Professional version 4 or later, version 5 preferred (https://mytimezero.com/tz-professional) or TimeZero Coastal Monitoring version 3 or later software (https://www.coastalmonitoring.com/).  Those members who already possess these TimeZero products can change to an AIS data feed connection which will allow viewing vessel positions within their TZ software. There is no additional charge for this service, but you would surrender your existing PACTRACS login information. TimeZero software can be purchased separately through their network of dealers (https://mytimezero.com/find-a-reseller).

TimeZero is “the cutting edge software for professional navigation,” but it doesn’t provide all of the tools that PACTRACS currently does for users that take advantage of advanced features, such as History Replay, Reports and Alarms, to name a few.  TZ Professional or Coastal Monitoring will likely satisfy our members that only need to see where all the AIS equipped vessels are within the subscription area.  The advantage is that you would need one less screen to see AIS targets. The geographic zones for AIS coverage will transfer seamlessly into TZ from PACTRACS.

If you would like to ingest an AIS data feed directly into TZ Professional or TZ Coastal Monitoring, please give us a call.  We’ll walk you through the setup steps. After trying it out, If you find that an AIS feed through TZ isn’t for you, we’d be happy to switch you back to PACTRACS.

MXAK 

~5/15/2024 9:45am ADT

PACTRACS Users (PLATINUM Members Only),

We have an outage currently from our Satellite Providers feed that goes into PACTRACS.  Their Development team is investigating to identify the source of the issue and devise a solution.

If you have any questions or need assistance don't hesitate to give us a call.

MXAK 

~2/8/2024 – 9:20ADT

PACTRACS Users,

We have a scheduled network maintenance period on Saturday February 10^th,2024 that will affect PACTRACS (https://vessels.MXAK.org). 
The scheduled maintenance window is 9:00am-9:00pm Alaska Standard Time.

You may notice some degradation in PACTRACS performance during this time.

If you have any questions don't hesitate to give us a call.

MXAK 

~12/18/2023 – 9:09ADT

PACTRACS Users,

PACTRACS System has feed back online and running within normal parameters

MXAK 

~12/18/2023 – 

PACTRACS Users,

We are currently experiencing delays with AIS signals fed into the PACTRACS system.  We are troubleshooting and working to have our feed back online as soon as possible. What that means is if you look at your vessel the signal could be several hours old.

MXAK 

~2/28/2023 – 

PACTRACS Users,

     We will be having a scheduled maintenance on our network that will affect PACTRACS (https://vessels.MXAK.org). 
The Scheduled Window for the outage is 6:00-8:00am Alaska Time this Thursday 3/2/2023.
It should last less than 30 minutes.

If you have any questions don't hesitate to give us a call.

~11/15/2022 – PACTRACS Users,

We will have a booth at the Pacific Marine Expo this week.  If you have questions about PACTRACS, need some tips, interested about our new GOLD feed offerings or just want to see how we are doing....stop by our booth #4122 at the Alaska Hall.

~11//202 – PACTRACS Users,

We will have a booth at the Pacific Marine Expo for the next few days.  If you have questions about PACTRACS, IT, or finance  there will be representatives from those departments there to help answer your questions or,.... just stop by and say Hi....our booth is in the Alaska Hall.

~6/27/2024 10:00am ADT

Greetings, MXAK Members,

We’re always looking for ways to improve your experience with our products.  With that in mind we have developed a new way for you to track vessel positions through our vessel tracking technology in a partnership with TimeZero, “A full marine navigation software solution.”  You now have a choice in vessel tracking services between our traditional, web-based PACTRACS, and TimeZero Professional version 4 or later, version 5 preferred (https://mytimezero.com/tz-professional) or TimeZero Coastal Monitoring version 3 or later software (https://www.coastalmonitoring.com/).  Those members who already possess these TimeZero products can change to an AIS data feed connection which will allow viewing vessel positions within their TZ software. There is no additional charge for this service, but you would surrender your existing PACTRACS login information. TimeZero software can be purchased separately through their network of dealers (https://mytimezero.com/find-a-reseller).

TimeZero is “the cutting edge software for professional navigation,” but it doesn’t provide all of the tools that PACTRACS currently does for users that take advantage of advanced features, such as History Replay, Reports and Alarms, to name a few.  TZ Professional or Coastal Monitoring will likely satisfy our members that only need to see where all the AIS equipped vessels are within the subscription area.  The advantage is that you would need one less screen to see AIS targets. The geographic zones for AIS coverage will transfer seamlessly into TZ from PACTRACS.

If you would like to ingest an AIS data feed directly into TZ Professional or TZ Coastal Monitoring, please give us a call.  We’ll walk you through the setup steps. After trying it out, If you find that an AIS feed through TZ isn’t for you, we’d be happy to switch you back to PACTRACS.

MXAK 

~5/15/2024 9:45am ADT

PACTRACS Users (PLATINUM Members Only),

We have an outage currently from our Satellite Providers feed that goes into PACTRACS.  Their Development team is investigating to identify the source of the issue and devise a solution.

If you have any questions or need assistance don't hesitate to give us a call.

MXAK 

~2/8/2024 – 9:20ADT

PACTRACS Users,

We have a scheduled network maintenance period on Saturday February 10^th,2024 that will affect PACTRACS (https://vessels.MXAK.org). 
The scheduled maintenance window is 9:00am-9:00pm Alaska Standard Time.

You may notice some degradation in PACTRACS performance during this time.

If you have any questions don't hesitate to give us a call.

MXAK 

~12/18/2023 – 9:09ADT

PACTRACS Users,

PACTRACS System has feed back online and running within normal parameters

MXAK 

~12/18/2023 – 

PACTRACS Users,

We are currently experiencing delays with AIS signals fed into the PACTRACS system.  We are troubleshooting and working to have our feed back online as soon as possible. What that means is if you look at your vessel the signal could be several hours old.

MXAK 

~2/28/2023 – 

PACTRACS Users,

     We will be having a scheduled maintenance on our network that will affect PACTRACS (https://vessels.MXAK.org). 
The Scheduled Window for the outage is 6:00-8:00am Alaska Time this Thursday 3/2/2023.
It should last less than 30 minutes.

If you have any questions don't hesitate to give us a call.

~11/15/2022 – PACTRACS Users,

We will have a booth at the Pacific Marine Expo this week.  If you have questions about PACTRACS, need some tips, interested about our new GOLD feed offerings or just want to see how we are doing....stop by our booth #4122 at the Alaska Hall.