Attacks on merchant shipping in the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea are continuing. The tragic loss of three crew aboard the container ship True Confidence, struck by an anti-ship ballistic missile on 6 March, underscores how very little protection is afforded to seafarers in the front line, writes Thomas Owen, CEO of MariTrace. While […]
Spire Global, a space-based maritime data firm, has unveiled a “dark shipping detection solution” to track vessels that manipulate their reported position to conceal nefarious activities. The Automatic Identification System (AIS) on a vessel helps avoid collisions at sea, track global shipping trends and monitor individual vessel activity. But crew members on board can manipulate […]
Marine safety specialist ACR Electronics has revealed its latest Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB), which the firm says is the world’s first mobile-connected AIS EPIRB with Return Link Service. ACR’s new GlobalFix V5 EPIRB, which is nominated for a DAME award at METSTRADE 2022 (15-17 November), has been given landmark Cospas-Sarsat approval, answering the demand […]
A group of Anonymous hackers have renamed the superyacht reportedly owned by Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘FCKPTN’ and changed its destination to ‘hell’ by manipulating its maritime data. The hack reportedly took place on 26 February and data on the Marine Traffic website is still showing superyacht Graceful with the hacked call sign of FCKPTN. […]