Your GPS says you’re here. Are you sure? Somewhere on the water tonight, a vessel is transmitting a position that doesn’t exist, and every system tracking it believes the lie completely. GPS spoofing has moved from rare curiosity to routine reality, serious enough that international maritime and aviation authorities have jointly warned of a growing threat to global shipping. For sanctions evasion. For cargo fraud. For collision claims where the tracking data itself can’t be trusted. If you work in shipping, this isn’t background noise anymore.
Ninety minutes. One room. The evidence, live.
A practical panel discussion with the people who reconstruct what really happened at sea: how positions are faked, how it shows up in the data, and what it means for claims, sanctions and evidence.
How false GPS and AIS positions are generated and broadcast, and why every system downstream accepts them.
Spoofing as a tool for sanctions evasion and cargo fraud, and how analysts track vessels that don’t want to be found.
Collision and P&I claims when the tracking data can’t be trusted: VDR and AIS reconstruction, and expert evidence.
Practitioners who reconstruct what really happened at sea, from casualty response and pilotage to VDR and AIS data analysis and expert evidence.
Maritime Manager
Capt. Adam Eager has over 30 years of experience in maritime operations, with a background spanning pilotage, port and harbour operations, offshore construction support, marine assurance, casualty response and maritime consultancy. He has worked across commercial shipping, offshore energy and port environments, providing practical advice and operational support to shipowners, port authorities, contractors, insurers and energy companies.
His experience includes navigational and pilotage risk assessments, port and terminal operations, vessel and marine assurance, offshore marine operations, incident response and technical due diligence. Drawing on a career built around real-world marine operations, he focuses on helping clients manage risk, solve operational challenges and safely deliver marine activities in demanding environments.
Senior Maritime Electronic Data Analyst
Chris Cox has 18 years of experience working with maritime data, leading the analysis and reconstruction of incidents using data from VDRs (Voyage Data Recorders), AIS (Automatic Identification System), GPS (Global Positioning System) and other sources. He has a background in software engineering and has developed software for both routine and post-incident data analysis.
Over the past seven years, Chris has gained experience in P&I claims and expert witness work, including cases involving apparent AIS spoofing and dark fleet tracking. His other areas of expertise include emissions modelling; he led the development of emiTr, ABL’s emissions tracking platform.
Strategic Business Development Consultant
Ikhwan Sunoto is a Strategic Business Development Consultant representing ABL Group, with an engineering background and experience across offshore energy, supply chain management, procurement and logistics. His career combines operational knowledge with commercial insight into the energy and marine sectors. He previously served as Senior Manager of Supply Chain Management at Bumi Armada and Head of Supply Chain Management at EPOMS. At PETRONAS, his responsibilities spanned sourcing, logistics, materials management and project development, including the construction and commissioning of the Bintulu supply base for PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd and PFLNG1. His earlier experience with Sapura included offshore platform hook-up and commissioning.
Ikhwan also serves as an Executive Council Member of the Malaysian Oil, Gas and Energy Services Council (MOGSC), an independent industry association established in 2003. Representing more than 600 corporate and associate members across the oil, gas and energy value chain, MOGSC serves as a collective voice for Malaysia’s service providers.
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