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02 / Practice M · Maritime · 6 service lines
Maritime Practice

Sovereignty at sea.

We equip coast guards, fisheries agencies, navies, and partner-nation cadres to defend their waters — from blue-water surveillance to littoral boarding to prosecutorial case build. IUU fishing is one of many threats; trafficking, piracy, smuggling, and territorial coercion ride on the same hulls.

01 · THREAT PICTURE BROADER THAN ONE THREAT

The picture is always more than one threat.

Most maritime adversaries operate across categories. A single dark hull may carry illicit catch, smuggled goods, and a forward element. We train your cadre to see the whole picture and to act under the right authority.

T·01

IUU fishing

Estimated to drain $23B from legal fisheries each year — often braided with forced labor and trafficking.

T·02

Trafficking & smuggling

Narcotics, weapons, people. Maritime corridors are cheaper and harder to interdict than ground.

T·03

Piracy & armed robbery

From the Horn to the Gulf of Guinea to Sulu — layered deterrence is the only effective doctrine.

T·04

Territorial coercion

Grey-zone fleets, militia hulls, ambiguous flag-state actors. Patrol presence is the answer.

T·05

Environmental crime

Reef damage, ballast violations, poaching of protected species. Conservation is enforced, not requested.

T·06

Sanction evasion

Ship-to-ship transfer, AIS spoofing, ownership laundering. We unwind it for case work.

02 · SERVICE LINES SIX · MARITIME

Six maritime service lines.

Each line is delivered by people with operational time in the work. We do not run desk-only programs. Every program ends with a mentored ops cycle, not a certificate ceremony.

03 · WHY PEOPLE IN MARITIME
In the maritime domain
A satellite tells you the hull is there. Intelligence tells you what it means.
— GCP MARITIME DOCTRINE
04 · ENGAGERESPONSE WITHIN 48 H

Scope a maritime engagement.

Tell us the waters, the authority, and the gap. We answer within 48 hours.

jmoore@globalcounterpoint.com