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Lloyd’s List Intelligence launches Vessel Due Diligence
New decision workbench helps marine underwriters and vessel vetters make faster, more confident, and defensible vessel decisions
Lloyd’s List Intelligence has launched Vessel Due Diligence, a new operational risk workbench within Seasearcher designed specifically for marine underwriters and vessel vetters. Vessel Due Diligence brings together critical vessel risk intelligence into a single trusted view, helping users assess vessels, fleets, voyages, and high-risk trades faster and with greater confidence.
Today, underwriters and vetters often spend hours manually stitching together information from multiple sources, reviewing vessel histories one-by-one, interpreting complex incident and inspection records, and making decisions under significant time pressure. Fragmented data, inconsistent workflows, and limited visibility into operational risk can result in slower decision-making, hidden exposure, and decisions that are difficult to defend when claims arise.
Vessel Due Diligence addresses these challenges by consolidating operational risk intelligence—including incidents, inspections, deficiencies, detentions, vessel characteristics, hull risk indicators, dry dock status, and behavioural risk signals—into a single decision-ready workbench. The result is a faster, more consistent approach to vessel assessment, reducing manual effort while strengthening confidence in every decision.
Unlike generic tracking, sanctions screening, or public data tools, Vessel Due Diligence is purpose-built for insurance and vessel vetting workflows. It combines operational depth with workflow efficiency, enabling users to move seamlessly from screening and investigation through to decision-making and ongoing monitoring.
Key capabilities include:
· A consolidated operational screening panelbringing together incidents, inspections, deficiencies, seizures, arrests,Class and P&I information in one location.
· Dry dock visibility to identify vessels that maypresent heightened operational risk.
· Multi-vessel screening and historic port callanalysis to accelerate fleet-level assessments.
· Hull risk indicators and behaviouralintelligence to help identify operational concerns that may not be apparentthrough compliance screening alone.
· Audit-ready decision support designed to improveconsistency and defensibility across underwriting and vetting teams.
The launch forms part of Lloyd’s List Intelligence’s continued investment in delivering decision-ready maritime intelligence that enables customers to assess risk more efficiently while reducing exposure to hidden operational threats.
"Vessel Due Diligence marks a real shift for our underwriting and vetting customers - from fragmented data to genuine decision-making support. We built it to mirror how underwriters and vetters actually work, so they can make faster, more defensible calls at scale."
- Nicola Marlin, Chief Product Officer, Lloyd's List Intelligence
Vessel Due Diligence is available as an add-on module within Seasearcher and is designed for marine insurers, P&I clubs, reinsurers, brokers, vessel vetting teams, commodity traders, and charterers managing operational vessel risk across global fleets.
Talk to us to learn more.
