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Maritime Domain Awareness - Effective Sharing of Information in Maritime Domain   Information sharing is often seen as the key collective mechanism in maritime sector due considering the challenges facing at the movement. A secure maritime environment can only be achieved when information is shared among maritime stake holders in a comprehensive manner. These stake holders might be nations, military and civil authorities, international organizations, etc. Close cooperation and communication between government and the private sector is a critical means of enhancing maritime situational awareness through information sharing. From a legal standpoint, information sharing can actually be quite complicated. The line between information sharing and intelligence sharing is often quite thin. Once a piece of information becomes classified by a government, sharing it becomes much more legally challenging – even within that government. In the context of maritime information sharin...

Anti Smuggling Operations - Maritime Challenges and Security Concerns Maritime Domain can be interpreted as all areas and things of, on, under, relating to, adjacent to, or bordering on a sea, ocean, or other navigable waterway, including all maritime related activities, infrastructure, people, cargo, and vessels and other conveyances. Due to its complexity and vastness, Maritime Domain is particularly vulnerable to misuse and disruption by many entities such as individuals, organizations, and nation states. According to the statistics approx. 80 percent of the world’s population lives within 200 miles of the shoreline. Yet the vast majority of people are unaware on the importance of maritime domain and key role played by the shipping industry, which is largely hidden from view. Basically that because of lack of knowledge in that field and nations are not utilizing the available maritime resources effectively. It is observed that commonly there are no any effective mechani...