PurpleTRAC (Maritime Risk & Compliance)
Custom Watchlist Severity Configs – Enhancement
What’s new:
- When reviewing vessel screening results, users can now define the severity status of each custom watchlist directly in the results. This provides clearer visibility into how each custom watchlist contributes to the overall screening status.
Why it matters:
- Greater operational control: Configure custom watchlist severity statuses to align with the organisation’s compliance and risk management policies.
- Clearer risk interpretation: Quickly understand how individual custom 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.
Ongoing Gap Severity Minimum Threshold – Enhancement
What’s new:
- A minimum threshold can now be set for ongoing gap severity to alert users when AIS non-reporting events have exceeded a configured minimum duration.
Why it matters:
- The minimum threshold will trigger an alert for an ongoing gap event with a severity that reflects risk.
Webhook Support for Notifications – New Feature
What’s new:
- PurpleTRAC now supports webhooks for notifications, allowing teams to configure external endpoints that receive real-time event payloads whenever a compliance alert or risk notification is triggered in the platform.
Why it matters:
- Webhook support means a sanctions alert or port risk notification can instantly trigger a workflow in an internal compliance system, or feed into a case management tool, closing the gap between a risk event and a manual response.
Meridia
Vessel Overview Tab
What’s new:
Meridia now includes a comprehensive Vessel Overview Tab that brings a vessel’s event-enriched operational history into one complete view.
Activity Tracker
- Complete event history, including port calls, zone crossings, AIS gaps, STS transfers, and positional discrepancies
- Searchable, date-sortable event timeline for quick reference and analysis
- Gantt-style dwell time visualisation for analysing vessel activity by type or location
- Playback controls to follow vessels, pause at events, and adjust playback speed
Interactive Navigation
- Vessel tracking with Standard, Satellite, and C-MAP views
- Navigation indicators showing vessel status and speed
Vessel Snapshot
- General details including vessel type, IMO, MMSI, call sign, flag, dimensions, registry, and ownership information
- Next port and ETA details
Why it matters:
- Single Source of Truth Consolidates vessel activity, tracking data, and static information in one view, reducing the need to switch between tools and data sources.
- Operational Efficiency Provides complete vessel context for faster assessments, port planning, and customer responses.
- Risk & Compliance Captures critical events such as AIS gaps, positional anomalies, and zone crossings to improve transparency and auditability.
- Enhanced Visibility Makes complex vessel behaviour easier to interpret through interactive visualisation, from dwell patterns to navigation history.
Top Visiting Vessels in Zones and Ports
What’s new:
Meridia’s Zones Traffic tab and Ports Congestion and Utilisation tab now include a Top Visiting Vessels table. The table automatically identifies and ranks vessels that make repeat visits to monitored maritime zones and ports, helping users spot recurring activity without manually correlating event records.
Frequency-based ranking
- Identifies vessels that have entered a monitored zone or port two or more times within the selected date range.
- Ranks vessels by visit frequency, with the highest visit counts shown first.
- Provides a one-click view of repeat vessel patterns without manual correlation.
Vessel intelligence at a glance
- Shows vessel name and IMO number for precise identification.
- Includes flag state and vessel type to support risk profiling and regulatory context.
- Links to complete vessel details for deeper analysis.
Flexible analysis
- Uses customisable date-range filtering to track patterns over weeks, months, or years.
- Covers both zone entries and port calls in a single unified panel.
- Supports export and drill-down into individual vessel activity timelines.
Why it matters:
- Eliminates manual work: Analysts, intelligence officers, and compliance teams can identify repeat visits instantly instead of manually tallying event records.
- Accelerates risk escalation: Repeat visitors can be surfaced quickly for enforcement action, regulatory review, or further investigation.
- Supports pattern-based enforcement: Teams can move from reactive incident response to proactive pattern identification by flagging vessels with suspicious repeat behaviour.
- Strengthens compliance reporting: Movement patterns and repeat zone visits can be documented for audit trails, compliance reports, and maritime intelligence sharing.
- Optimises analyst focus: Teams can prioritise high-frequency visitors and anomalous patterns instead of scanning entire event logs manually.
MDA
Updated Visual Identity & UI Styling – Enhancement
What’s new:
MDA’s interface has been updated with a refreshed Pole Star visual identity, including a new logo, colour palette, and typography. The overall layout, navigation, and features are unchanged — the updates focus purely on the look and feel of the product.
Why it matters:
- Aligned with Pole Star branding – MDA now visually reflects the wider Pole Star product family, while remaining the same product you rely on today.
- Cleaner, more modern UI – Updated colours and typography improve readability and visual clarity, helping users scan key information more easily.
- No change to workflows or data – All existing functionality, data, alerts, and saved configurations remain exactly the same; only the visual presentation has been refreshed.