Verumar is a suite of highly effective Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) services carefully tailored to enable decision-makers to manage and protect ocean wealth.

Harnessing traditional and cutting-edge approaches – including satellite imagery, AI-powered analytics and human intelligence – our systems and world-leading maritime security experts provide comprehensive insights to significantly enhance your sea vision.

Verumar consists of a broad and flexible menu of cost-effective solutions, from initial risk and threat profiling to real-time monitoring and analysis of complex sea spaces. Verumar delivers capacity building and, where appropriate, leads technology transfer and systems integration to ensure you are best placed to protect your Blue Economy assets now and into the future.

Whether you need to strengthen food security by countering Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing; ensure compliance with international regulations by tracking commercial shipping; improve energy security around offshore infrastructure; or protect blue natural capital by monitoring ocean conservation, Verumar provides an evidence-based solution.

Verumar: revealing the truth at sea.

Service areas

The ocean is a hugely complex environment that is increasingly recognised as an ecological and economic asset requiring careful management. Verumar solutions provide the information and insights to enable highly effective sea space management decision making.

Services

  • Assessing risks and threats associated with human activity at sea.
  • Monitoring and reporting to reveal patterns of life, trends and behaviours of maritime activity.
  • Navigational risk assessments for safe maritime operations around ports and offshore infrastructure, including space ports.
  • MDA strategy.
  • Development and implementation of bespoke solutions, from intelligence reports to complete.
  • MDA capabilities.
  • Training and capacity building.
  • Expert witness services in navigation and hydrography.

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are havens for biodiversity which can either be helped or hindered by the presence of people. Blue carbon and blue natural capital assets can thrive alongside humans when management teams are empowered by Verumar’s timely understanding of activity within their MPAs.

Services

  • Design and implementation of remote sensing solutions to monitor protected areas providing local teams with greater understanding of “over the horizon” human activity.
  • Monitoring human interaction with blue natural capital and blue carbon assets.
  • MDA capacity building and training.

The global fisheries and aquaculture industry is worth over USD 400bn a year, employing millions of people to feed billions. Ensuring safe operations and transparency and sustainability is vital for both ecological and economic reasons. As the industry evolves, decision makers can take confidence in the ability of Verumar to provide trustworthy information about fisheries and aquaculture activities.

Services

  • MDA for fisheries management.
  • Countering IUU fishing.
  • Aquaculture and mariculture site selection.

Crime at sea endangers people and the natural world, eroding economic value. The harsh environment of the ocean presents an inherent challenge for those charged with governance and enforcement. Whether it is human trafficking, illegal fishing, smuggling or piracy, Verumar experts develop solutions to bring agencies the clarity they need to improve safety and security at sea.

Services

  • International Finance Corporation (IFC) performance standard compliance audits for environmental and social sustainability.
  • Monitoring and analysis of human activity at sea, detecting variance and anomalies in patterns of life including dark vessel detection.
  • Monitoring to counter IUU fishing, smuggling, trafficking and other maritime crimes.
  • Development of intelligence requirements.
  • Designing concepts of operations, solution implementation.
  • Supporting nations to meet their flag state and coastal state obligations.

The rapidly evolving needs of the MDA community demand innovation. New data sources need to be collected, collated and analysed faster to meet ever-changing needs. NLA International’s open-source intelligence system feeds Verumar experts with trends and data which allows them to stay at the cutting edge of solutions and to advance the MDA capabilities of our clients.

Services

  • Horizon scanning for cutting-edge data gathering and analysis technologies.
  • Technology trials.
  • Strategic and tactical advice and guidance on the integration of new data feeds and improved maritime domain picture compilation.
  • Integrating marine environment data capture technologies and data analysis approaches.
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