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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...

Prosperity in Maritime Domain - Cooperated Maritime Security The prosperity in most of the nations depends primarily on international trade and investments. In accordance, world economy heavily depends on maritime trade and commerce for their economic growth and prosperity. No country is entirely self-sufficient and almost whole countries needs maritime commerce to meet their trade needs, even though a littoral state, an island or a landlocked country. According to the statics, Ninety percent of world trade and two-thirds of energy supplies are carried by sea. Therefore, maritime transport is backbone of global trade and the economy. The seas are enormous and complex, and it’s provide a substantial portion of the global population with food and livelihoods and are the means of transport for 80% of global trade. This trade routes are vulnerable and exposure to attack depends on their goods or materials of transporting. Therefore, international commerce is at risk in the majo...