With the current state of global affairs, worldwide tensions are high, creating a landscape in which commercial companies and financial institutions must carefully monitor the security of their supply chains and maritime domains for sanctions and environmental regulation violations, the use of deceptive shipping practices, and suspicious, criminal, or terrorist activity.
Pole Star’s Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) platform is a comprehensive AIS integrated maritime data solution for those that require complete situational awareness. In this white paper, we explore why MDA is so important, as well as how shipping companies, owners, operators, managers, and trade financing banks use it.