ShipTracks provides the maritime transportation industry increased decision making capabilities based on real-time vessel position information. The advent of AIS technology in the U.S. based market in 2004 brought an opportunity to utilize company data management strengths with an emerging technology. We have an established 12 year history of providing environmental modeling and maritime surveillance to energy corporations, universities, state and federal agencies. Seeing the potential and need for vessel tracking and management solutions for the commercial maritime community led to the creation of ShipTracks, LLC as a company in 2008.