PurpleTrac (Maritime Risk & Compliance)
Dual Use Goods screening
What’s new:
PurpleTrac now has the capability to include Dual Use Goods screening as part of the screening of Bill of ladings, Containers and vessel screening
Why it Matters:
Dual-use goods can require specific export licences when shipped to certain regions. This new capability can surface the additional compliance exposure earlier during the screening process.
Watchlist Severity Configurability
What’s new:
When reviewing vessel screening results, users will now see the configured severity status of each watchlist directly in the results. This provides clearer visibility into how each watchlist contributes to the overall screening status.
Why it matters:
Greater operational control – Configure watchlist severity statuses to align with the organisation’s compliance and risk management policies.
Clearer risk interpretation – Quickly understand how individual watchlists contribute to screening results by seeing their severity status at the time of screening.
Improved auditability – Maintain clearer records of how screening outcomes were generated, based on the status of each watchlist during the screening process.
Podium (Shipping & Offshore)
User-Defined Vessel Colours for Faster Fleet Identification
What’s new:
You can now personalise how vessels appear on your Fleet and Chart views by assigning colours to your vessel groups. Simply go to User Settings → My Vessel Groups to set a colour for each group, and use My Vessels to choose which group’s colour is displayed for any vessel that belongs to multiple groups. Your colour preferences are applied consistently across the Fleet map, vessel list, and charts.
Note: Safety-critical alerts — such as SSAS alerts, Warnings, and Inactive status — will always take visual priority over custom colours, ensuring critical information is never missed.
Why it matters:
When monitoring a large fleet across multiple groups, it can be difficult to quickly identify and differentiate vessels on a busy map. Custom vessel colours give you a faster, clearer view of your fleet at a glance — reducing time spent searching and helping your team stay on top of what matters most.
Data Insights
API Keys
What’s new:
We’ve launched API Keys for the Insights Data Packages, now available through the Account Service. This update gives users a simple way to generate and manage, their own API Keys. The new API Keys are integrated across various core services, ensuring smooth and consistent authentication whenever you connect to Insights Data.
Why it matters:
This upgrade makes accessing Insights Data easier, safer, and more reliable. With self-service API Key management and unified authentication across our services, users benefit from:
- Improved security with modern authentication best practices
- Faster onboarding for developers and technical teams
- Consistent access across all Insights Data touchpoints
View the documentation: https://developers.polestarglobal.com/docs/polestar-api/6ox85ue8drtn5-api-authentication
Meridia
Port Analytics – Real-Time and Historical Port Activity Intelligence
What’s new:
Meridia now includes a dedicated Port Analytics dashboard, giving you real-time visibility into vessel arrivals and departures at any port or zone over the last 24 hours, alongside historical congestion and utilisation trends spanning days, weeks, months, quarters, or years.
Powerful filters by vessel type, flag, gross tonnage, and a commercial vessels toggle let you focus on the traffic that matters to your business.
All of this data is also available programmatically via the Port Analytics API, enabling you to integrate port intelligence directly into your own systems, dashboards, and workflows.
Why it matters:
Understanding port activity patterns has historically required manual data gathering, spreadsheet analysis, or expensive bespoke reporting. Port Analytics puts that intelligence directly in your hands, whether you’re a port service provider optimising service timing, a maritime analyst tracking congestion trends, or a port operator monitoring live traffic.
And with API access included, you can go beyond the Meridia UI to power your own internal tools, feed port data into risk models, or automate operational workflows, all from the same high-quality, filtered, and aggregated data source.
Email Notifications and Notification Enhancements
What’s new:
Meridia now supports email notifications for vessel and zone/port events, allowing you to receive alerts directly in your inbox without needing to configure webhooks or poll for updates.
Choose between instant delivery — receiving a dedicated email the moment an event occurs — or scheduled summaries sent hourly or daily.
For zone or port subscriptions with auto screening enabled, a severity filter now also lets you control which alerts reach your inbox based on risk level.
If you’re using the Vessel Notification API or Zone & Port Notification API directly, instant email delivery is now also available alongside the existing scheduled option.
Why it matters:
Until now, Meridia users had no built-in way to receive proactive email alerts when vessel or zone/port events occurred. Email notifications remove that barrier, keeping your team informed without requiring technical integrations or manual monitoring.
For time-sensitive events, for example a vessel entering a restricted zone, a screening alert on a high-risk vessel, a critical port arrival, etc., instant notifications ensure you can act immediately.
Severity filtering means your inbox stays focused on what genuinely requires attention.