Who We Serve

Financial Markets & Compliance

With the US treasury and other regulators globally focusing more extensively on maritime trade, the need to keep at pace with an increasingly complex sanctions landscape is now vital. 

Since 2014,  we have helped our clients with regulatory exposures  in the banking, trade, commodity, insurance and government sectors manage their financial crime risk with advanced sanctions screening and vessel tracking solutions.

Our multi-award winning PurpleTRAC regulatory technology protects companies from regulatory exposures in maritime trade and shipping while automating, streamlining and recording formerly manual processes. 

Our collaborative partnerships with Dow Jones Risk & Compliance and TradeIX have been driven by the industry’s need to create a fully transparent operating environment within the supply chain, and to continue to guide the digitisation of maritime trade and its financing.

Market-Specific Issues

• Maritime trade and its financing is highly paper-based and vulnerable to fraud
• Procedural inefficiencies and a lack of transparency and automation across the supply chain
• Increasing focus from regulators to ensure sanctions compliance and appropriate risk mitigation measures
• High monetary, legal and reputational risk 
• The enormity of scale of global trade

Shipping & Offshore

In 1998, Pole Star was the first company to develop real-time tracking in the maritime industry and, since then, we have continued to offer the maritime industry cutting edge vessel tracking, SSAS, SSRS, fleet management, risk insight, LRIT conformance testing and certification, and sanctions compliance solutions as well as associated hardware. 

We currently track over 12,000 ships on behalf of 1,200 global commercial customers representing a wide range of sectors such as oil & gas, logistics & freight, container and cruise liners and commodity shipping. Our services & hardware are available both directly and through our international distributor network. 

Market-Specific Issues

• Accurately monitor ship location
• Track small vessels and crafts.
• Understand current risk levels regarding piracy and illicit activity
• Ensure ship security measures are in place with reliable alerting processes 
• Better understand their maritime domain and maritime surroundings
• Ensure appropriate compliance processes are in place now that regulators have begun focussing on ship owners, operators, etc,

Governments

Pole Star is an LRIT Application Service Provider (ASP) / DC administrator to over 60 maritime administrations / flag registries including Panama, Liberia, Marshall Islands, USA, and the UK, monitoring over 34,000 ships. Pole Star also provides authorised LRIT testing ASP services to over 100 Flags. 

Alongside this, Pole Star provides Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) an integrated situational management platform, for safeguarding Homeland Security and a maritime domain, plus fleetwide ship screening, and AIS services to flags, as well as tracking and environmental monitoring services to international, national, and state fisheries authorities.

Pole Star enjoys a close working relationship with key IMO secretariat staff on matters relating to maritime affairs, particularly maritime security, counter-piracy and LRIT. We also have close dealings with the US State Department and United Nations, in conjunction with sanctions related regulatory compliance. As such, we are on the front-line of regulation affecting governments in the maritime space.

Market-Specific Issues

• Ensure the continued success of their coastal surveillance and homeland security programs
• Have full visibility over the vessels in their maritime domain
• Monitor vessels within customised areas
• Provide monitoring and surveillance tools for coastal fisheries operations
• Monitor foreign flagged ships in territorial waters
• Full end-to-end LRIT advanced analytics