Starboard Maritime Intelligence has announced it has brought in S&P Global Market Intelligence to provide value added intelligence services to the maritime information market.
This collaboration means intelligence analysts working to stop issues such as IUU fishing and reduce transnational crime now have access to real-time maritime domain awareness integrated with the world’s most comprehensive vessel information.
The engagement is focused on building impact by providing maritime analysts with the best tools available. Augmenting Starboard’s maritime domain awareness software with S&P Global Market Intelligence vessel information can help with challenges such as unpicking complicated vessel ownership structures, identifying potential indicators of IUU fishing, and understanding combined histories of vessel behaviour and changes in vessel information over time.
‘S&P Global Market Intelligence is the leading provider of vessel information,’ explained Starboard Maritime Intelligence CEO Trent Fulcher.
‘Being able to understand the complex relationships between vessel ownership or model a vessel’s risk based on its characteristics are powerful tools for analysts. It helps them to more efficiently and accurately identify illegal behaviour.’
The collaboration also includes an expansion to AIS from vessel based receivers and S&P Global Market Intelligence’s terrestrial AIS network. With this expansion, the Starboard team is delivering an increase of around 11% in the number of vessel’s tracked in some congested areas.
‘Maritime Domain Awareness is a growing market as concerns for climate security, food security, and biodiversity loss continue to rise,’ Trent Fulcher said.
‘Now more than ever there is a need for deep, accurate, and insightful information that can be used to assess and act on negative human impacts to our oceans.’
The team will be hosting a webinar next month on the importance of combining vessel behaviours with accurate ownership information for ocean protection. They will share examples of how analysts work with this information to identify high risk vessels.
