Tag: Coastal Surveillance

In a coastal city’s bustling harbour, an unmanned surface vessel (USV) glides across the waters to patrol and scan the seas. The USV’s ‘eyes’ or sensors spot a suspicious vessel, and the sophisticated perception system, which acts as the vessel’s ‘brain’, processes the data in real time. This information is relayed securely to the command…

An alarm buzzes. The marine analytics software at the onshore Maritime Enforcement Agency’s Command and Control (C2) Centre has detected some suspicious movement off the port of Singapore. An oil tanker has shifted its bearings significantly and is charting a course that departs from its historical routes. Concurrently, the automated tracking system onboard a coast…

Piracy and armed robbery incidents at sea are on the rise, with maritime vessels and their crews under increasing risk from hijacking, robbery and bodily harm. Globally, piracy attacks rose 11% between 2017 and 2018, according to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Maritime Bureau.1 In 2019, ICC Commercial Crime Services reported several incidents in…

The maritime sector is a huge driving force in our global economy, with safety-critical users such as merchant ships and ports relying heavily on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) for a vast array of applications. GNSS serves as the primary source of Position, Navigation and Time (PNT) across domains and applications, it provides essential services…

Maritime piracy today remains a complex challenge to international law, world trade, as well as the safety and security of seafarers. The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and other maritime safety authorities publish various counter-piracy guidelines and recommendations to help shipping companies protect their ships against the piracy menace. In reference to the guidelines, while it…