Identify Suspicious Vessel Activity in Real-Time

Gatehouse Maritime supports dark ship detection by helping maritime authorities and operators identify vessels operating without AIS or transmitting false data. Through intelligent AIS monitoring, behavioral alerts, and advanced vessel information, you gain the tools to uncover and respond to potential threats including AIS silence, spoofing, GPS interference, and non-compliant behavior near sensitive areas.

What Can You Detect?

Use our maritime monitoring platform to detect and investigate:

  • AIS silence or unexpected signal loss

  • GPS jamming or interference

  • AIS spoofing or false identities

  • Course changes, loitering, or unusual movement patterns

  • Rendezvous activity and proximity behavior

  • Entry into restricted zones without active AIS

  • High-risk or sanctioned vessels attempting to avoid detection

Who Uses Dark Ship Detection?

Maritime Intelligence and Defense Agencies

Strengthen situational awareness and maritime security with insights into AIS anomalies, spoofed traffic, and evasive behaviors near strategic assets.

Maritime Authorities

Gain better oversight of national waters and coastal zones by identifying vessels operating without valid AIS transmissions. Respond quickly to unauthorized entries, silent approaches, or deviations from declared routes.

Environmental Agencies

Detect potential IUU fishing or environmental violations by monitoring AIS silence and suspicious behavior near marine protected areas.

Maritime Intelligence and Defense Agencies
Maritime Authorities
Environmental Agencies

Enhance Your Maritime Awareness with Dark Ship Detection

Whether you need to monitor high-risk zones, protect critical infrastructure, or enforce maritime regulations, our solutions help you detect and act on suspicious vessel behavior. Book a meeting to learn how we support dark ship detection through intelligent AIS monitoring and alerting.

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Explore the Full Gatehouse Maritime Product Suite

Maritime Domain Monitor

Maritime Domain Monitor

Maritime Domain Monitor enables users to view, analyze, and act on maritime data, all from a secure, web-based platform.

Replay and Reporting

Replay and Reporting

Unlock deep operational insights by leveraging historical AIS data. With powerful replay and reporting tools, you can assess past events, enhance preparedness, and stay ahead with real-time situational awareness.

Event Alerting

Event Alerting

Stay ahead with automated alerts and area-based monitoring. Event Alerting lets you define zones, trigger notifications, and streamline responses in real time.

AIS Network Monitoring

AIS Network Monitoring

Stay ahead of AIS network issues with continuous monitoring and real-time alerts. Detect irregularities before they impact operations.

 

Aids to Navigation

Aids to Navigation

Manage virtual AtoNs and monitor physical ones , all in one streamlined solution for navigational aid oversight.

Advanced Analytics

Advanced Analytics

Advanced Analytics delivers maritime predictions powered by historical data and machine learning, turning insight into foresight.

Extended Vessel Information

Extended Vessel Information

Extended Vessel Information gives you access to detailed data on any vessel — from core specs to integrity records and registry history.

 

Data Mediation

Data Mediation

Ensure clean, reliable AIS data delivery. Data Mediation filters, formats, and routes real-time messages with minimal bandwidth use.

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Joel Box
Commercial Director (US)
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