Grants and Contributions

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

Expand team and facility to expedite scale-up in the Defence sector

Advancements in risk prediction models, vessel path forecasting, and estimated time of arrival analysis to enhance responsiveness to emerging maritime threats.

Develop and test new version of its maritime vessel tracking A.I. platform

This project will develop a novel simulation tool for understanding shocks to the maritime supply chain in Canada. The project will evaluate past disruptions and how they impacted vessel traffic and use these insights to generate a novel model for anticipating changes to future events. A maritime network derived from previous positional reports of vessels at global scale will be used to visualize and understand changes in port calls, schedules, and overall volume at a local and aggregate level. A user interface will be developed to operate and generate insights from the model when deployed on live vessel tracking data, as part of the OCIANA platform.

Engage business development expertise to expand internationally within the shipping sector

International Co-Innovation Action Plan (ICAP) project. Having gained considerable traction within Canadian civil, defense and commercial entities, GSTS is preparing to expand into global markets. GSTS is a Maritime focused AI company, delivering solutions to enhance decision making across the marine security and maritime logistics industries. GSTS is looking to identify European co-innovation partners who require marine data analytics solutions or providers of unique data sets, to support decision-makers in both the commercial and defence spheres. Specifically, GSTS is looking to enhance its Digital Ocean Corridor and Canal management capabilities with both in-market and trans-Atlantic partners.

To establish a novel sales and marketing approach for a new disruptive technology that impacts maritime safety, security, environmental and compliance management, climate change and logistics on a global scale.
This capability will enable the company to scale at a global level and lead market share capture.

Engage business development expertise to develop sales processes and new growth strategies

This project will review and implement state of the art large language model (LLM) applications to support natural language querying for OCIANA users. Natural language interfaces are not being used in the maritime domain. This work will support natural language querying and evaluate use cases for UI deployment.