Articles

Subsea cables: the threat you can't see vs the sensor you already own

December 17, 2025

AIS shows only part of the risk near subsea cables. This article explores how DAS turns fibre into a sensor to detect unseen activity and support earlier, intelligence‑led protection.

Australia’s $60 billion visibility gap in offshore decommissioning

December 9, 2025

Dr. Kaan Gunes, Oil & Gas Lead at Starboard Maritime Intelligence, explores the A$60 billion visibility gap in offshore decommissioning and how continuous, behaviour-based monitoring can help operators and contractors manage risk,

The end of the benign seabed: Why AIS monitoring is no longer enough

December 5, 2025

Peter Harvey explores why AIS-only monitoring is no longer enough for subsea cable protection, and how intelligence-led, multi-source approaches are reshaping resilience for cable owners, operators, and hyperscalers.

Submarine cable protection: from incident response to prevention using predictive intelligence

February 19, 2025

How predictive intelligence helps prevent submarine cable damage by identifying high-risk vessels before incidents occur.

After Sun Flower 7: Analysing fishing activity of South Korean-owned carriers in the Western Central Pacific

June 24, 2024

Over the last two years, carrier fishing activity in the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) has been a topic of discussion regarding the violation of fish aggregating device (FAD) use during closure period...

Caulerpa seaweed in Aotea Great Barrier Island

September 25, 2023

This work shows that the comprehensive maritime vessel data coupled with key biological factors produce an adaptive tool to guide targeted and cost-effective management of marine invasive species risk. With this work, Starboard...

Combining vessel authorisations, vessel information, and vessel positions for port state measures

July 25, 2023

When fishing vessels, flagged to distant water fishing nations, operate far from their home jurisdiction and visit foreign ports for landing or transshipment, effective implementation of PSMs can be a challenge. Multilateral...

The journey of IUU risk indicators from red flags to real-time response

April 3, 2023

Megan is an analyst at the National Intelligence Unit of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA), and her day-to-day role is to uncover the patterns and behaviours of vessels that display risk factors that are...

Opening the hold doors: a look at how surveillance can effectively reduce IUU fishing

March 20, 2023

The three-letter acronym IUU holds a web of complexity and this was discussed during the IUU fishing surveillance panel at the Economist Impact 2nd World Ocean Summit Asia-Pacific. Panel members and presenters included...