Pole Star PurpleTRAC

PurpleTRAC is Pole Star Global's maritime regulatory risk product, and it addresses a different problem from most vessel tracking software. Where general tracking answers where a ship is, PurpleTRAC answers whether dealing with that ship is lawful, screening maritime activity against sanctions and regulatory risk.

That distinction matters commercially because the buyers are different. Vessel tracking is bought by operators and logistics teams; regulatory screening is bought by compliance functions at banks, insurers, traders and shipping companies who face serious consequences for facilitating a sanctioned voyage, whether or not they knew.

The maritime sanctions environment has become considerably more complex, with dark fleet activity, AIS manipulation, ship-to-ship transfers and ownership structures designed to obscure control. Screening against a name list is no longer sufficient, because the risk lies in behaviour and relationships rather than in a vessel's registered identity alone.

Pole Star Global operates across the maritime domain more broadly, with PurpleTRAC as its regulatory compliance product line. For an organisation whose exposure is legal rather than operational, a product built specifically for sanctions and regulatory risk is a different purchase from a tracking platform with compliance features added. Buyers should confirm which of the two they actually need, since the two categories are frequently conflated. Pricing is not published, which is standard for compliance software sold to financial and shipping institutions.