The Maritime Support Services Operations Centre is at the heart of EMSA’s maritime monitoring and information activities.

• Vessel traffic monitoring system
• Based on monitoring AIS (radio) broadcasts from ships
• Covers all European coastal waters (over 20,000 vessels)
• >12,000 ships/day tracked in EU waters
• >100,000,000 AIS positions recorded per month
• Service operated by EMSA, provided to Member States authorities
• Uses: traffic management, search-and-rescue, banned vessel tracking