VDES Alliance

The VDES Alliance strives to be a global association consisting of maritime authorities, organizations, and industry members, who cooperate in testing and promoting the use of VHF Data Exchange (VDES) technologies. VDES is a much faster AIS with terrestrial VDE and global coverage with satellite VDE. The VDES Alliance drives global VDES integration and testing efforts to enable services facilitated by VDES to be used by as many stakeholders as possible as soon as possible. In order to help VDES adoption in the maritime world, the VDES alliance members also cooperate on the marketing of the VDES technology.