Marie-Caroline Laurent is a consultant conducting a mission for the CT Travel Program from UNOCT. The aim of her mission is to help develop a maritime component to the CT Travel Program, which was originally developed for air transport. The Countering Terrorist Travel Programme, a flagship global initiative of UNOCT, assists beneficiary Member States in building their capabilities to detect and counter terrorists and serious criminals by using advance passenger information (API), passenger name record (PNR), to improve the use of international databases with known and suspected terrorists and criminals, such as with INTERPOL, and enhance international information exchange, in accordance with Security Council resolutions 2178 (2014), 2396 (2017), and 2482 (2019) and relevant privacy laws.