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Satellite monitoring of shipping is driving increased maritime data manipulation
“Nobody was looking at nobody before, and now everybody is looking at everybody all the time. And therefore, manipulation is on the rise.”
Financial traders unknowingly rely on manipulated maritime tracking data
“So today, traders, quant funds, use data that is being increasingly manipulated, increasingly unreliable, and they have no idea this is happening.”
Global AIS ship tracking relies entirely on an unverified honor system
“So we have one hundred million data points a day analog, which are based on an honor system that trusts every vessel to tell whatever it wants about itself.”
One percent of global ships transmit false identities
“One percent of all the ships today transmit false identity.”
55% of global ships misreport their actual destinations throughout their journeys
“55% of ships misreport their actual port of call through all the journey.”
Maritime data manipulation undermines traditional intelligence watchlists
“On the world of intelligence, this undermines the whole concept of watch lists.”
A Liberian ship flag registration costs $5,000
“Has Liberian flag, which you can buy for 5000 bucks.”
A Maltese ship flag of convenience costs $10,000 annually
“This vessel is called the Kilnik Philippos, Malta flag, and also you can buy it for 10,000 bucks a year.”
As of 2014, all of Windward's customers were intelligence agencies
“Today all our customers are intelligence agencies.”
A round-trip oil tanker voyage to Indonesia costs $2.5 million
“This vessel costs about, it costs about one, 2.5 million dollars lump sum for this voyage back and forth.”