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 Global Spatial Technology Solutions ("GSTS" or "the Company"), a leader in maritime innovation, announced that it has closed a CAD $11M Series A funding round from lead investor, Fonds de solidarité FTQ, along with Export Development Corporation (EDC).

With this strategic investment, GSTS is well positioned to accelerate the international commercialization of its proprietary AI powered platform, OCIANA®, with near term expansion in the EMEA and APAC regions. OCIANA® provides operational optimisation, risk and compliance management solutions across the maritime industry with multiple applications in commercial, civil and defence segments. The next phase includes an extension of the OCIANA® solution suite based on market needs for digitalization, climate change, sustainability and energy initiatives. This investment will also enable the expansion of GSTS' commercial and artificial intelligence teams to respond to current market demands for OCIANA®.

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Members of the Five Eyes (FVEY) security partnership, Canada, the United States (U.S.), the United Kingdom (U.K.), Australia, and New Zealand (N.Z.), work together to support each other’s national and international security interests. Recent changes to the maritime security environment caused by technological advances in AI, robotics, sensors, and weaponry, as well as growing great power competition, have prompted the navies of each FVEY state to invest in maritime autonomous systems (MAS).

Autonomous systems are those that operate using artificial intelligence and do not require human crews or physical intervention. Their level of autonomy ranges from fully autonomous to remote-controlled. Autonomous vessels and vehicles can also be optionally-crewed, operating with or without a complement of sailors. The adoption of MAS, including uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) and uncrewed undersea vehicles (UUVs), will improve the capabilities of FVEY navies by reducing operator errors, risk to human life, and costs associated with naval operations while speeding up reaction times, complicating enemy targeting, and allowing navies to pivot to more distributed maritime operations.

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As people continue to gather in expanding cities, noise pollution has been described as the next public health crisis. In the ocean, this situation is aggravated as sound travels further in water than it does in air. With the sound from a ship’s propeller hitting up to 170 decibels, the equivalent of a rocket engine at lift-off, and travelling up to 160 km before fully dissipating, the survival of marine life is threatened. Imagine what it’s like to be a marine animal with container ships, ferries and other commercial vessels passing overhead. When affected by noise, whales and many other marine animals struggle to communicate, eat, and reproduce.

In response, a project developed by Clear Seas and funded by Transport Canada’s Quiet Vessel Initiative and Mitacs’ Accelerate Program brings together a research team of engineers and marine biologists at the University of British Columbia to solve this serious problem by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence. To help them with their work, the research team have invited experts from across North America to join a collaborative design workshop in Vancouver, BC on June 1-2 to develop innovative ways to tackle this issue of underwater noise from ships.

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Canada’s Ocean Supercluster (OSC) has launched a Canada-wide Call for Proposals under its new Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ocean Program. This $20M program aims to trigger new incremental investment into ocean AI solutions and accelerate the adoption of AI by Canadian ocean companies. 

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GSTS, a Maritime Intelligence company, today announced that it has expanded its solution offering to ports, terminal operators and shipping lines. OCIANA^TM Port Optimiser, OCIANA^TM Terminal Optimiser and OCIANA^TMVessel Optimiser provide enhanced predictability and advanced planning to improve operational efficiency. 
OCIANA™ Port Optimiser enables ports to benefit from actionable insights for inter-modal operations as well as environmental performance management.  
 
OCIANA™ Terminal Optimiser facilitates simulation-optimisation to minimise turnaround times and maximise resource utilisation, enabling planning and scheduling and uninterrupted last mile delivery as well as quick recovery from shock events.
 
OCIANA™ Vessel Optimiser provides a dynamic view of vessel operational and behavioural patterns on route, distance, speed, fuel consumption and emissions to enhance collaborative decision making and enable just-in-time arrival.
 
GSTS continues to offer its risk management solution to civil, defence and border security agencies. OCIANA™ Risk Manager delivers predictive insights as well as actionable intelligence in real-time and has been recognised for enhanced detection and mitigation of security, commercial and environmental risk. 
 
“We are very pleased to roll out our new capabilities that enhance maritime operational efficiencies and global logistics management while promoting environmental protection and supporting emission targets,” said Richard Kolacz, GSTS CEO. “These capabilities are currently used to establish digital maritime corridors that connect all elements of the maritime ecosystem. OCIANA^TM facilitates safe and sustainable movement of goods and enables rapid responses to climate, geo-political and social events.”
 
About GSTS
 
GSTS is a Global Maritime Intelligence company delivering solutions to enhance decision making across the maritime and logistics industry. Our platform, OCIANA^TM, is designed to save lives, energy and the environment on a global scale using innovative data collection and analysis techniques.  
 
For more information, visit www.gsts.ca