by Maximilian Reimann, Team Leader Maritime Operations Management, Christoph Martius, Scientific Researcher, and Ole John, Head of Department Ship and Information Management, Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services

The maritime industry is facing a growing number of security-related challenges that are increasingly pushing traditional monitoring and control approaches to their limits.

Besides traditional risks such as marine accidents or severe weather, deliberate disruptions and hybrid threats are on the rise: sabotage of subsea cables, GNSS jamming and spoofing, or drone flights over ports and terminals demonstrate that maritime infrastructure has become an integral part of hybrid threat scenarios.

Port authorities, waterway administrations, and offshore operators, therefore, face challenges in providing a robust maritime situational picture under dynamic conditions.

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