Press releases & announcements

Lloyd’s List Intelligence, the ship tracking and maritime intelligence pioneers, have announced the launch of a new vessel tracking solution, AIS+. AIS+ combines Automatic Identification System (AIS) data with artificial intelligence to provide granular insight to the shipping industry ecosystem on vessel movements, movement history, and predictive movements.

Why is AIS+ vessel movements data so accurate and reliable?

Vessel location intelligence is derived from raw AIS data, which is overlaid with the ‘Geospatial Database’, a unique hierarchical database built to industry standards - UN/LOCODE, ISO, ITPCO. The Geospatial Database allows AIS+ users to specify location by sub-port, ship-to-ship (STS) transfer area, terminal, berth or anchorage, so that they can tell precisely what is happening to a ship and its cargo at any given time.

Where is Lloyd’s List Intelligence’s AIS data sourced?

The AIS data used is derived from a combination of Lloyd’s List Intelligence terrestrial AIS data, Spire satellite and shipborne AIS, Orbcomm satellite AIS, and human intelligence. Our proprietary terrestrial network is hosted and maintained by Lloyd’s Agents under an exclusive ten-year agreement, read more here. This means theses stations are positioned in the busiest and most strategically important ports in the world and have a market-leading up-time of 95%+. Additionally, the agents provide first-hand vessel sighting insight, meaning users of AIS+ can identify indicators of deceptive shipping practices like AIS gaps and dark port callings.

Who benefits from AIS+?

As a global provider of maritime intelligence Lloyd’s List Intelligence data is integrated into the workflows of organisations from national governments to high-growth start-ups. AIS+ data is used for: vessel tracking for fleet management and voyage optimisation, predictive arrivals insight, port and berth level congestion trends, historical trade lane and vessel movement trends, dark activity monitoring, and more. This insight is fuelling the growth of customers across the insurance, shipping, commodities, finance, legal and software markets, with data delivered via API or FTP directly into their existing systems and workflows to maximise efficiency gains and commercial advantage.

"AIS+ reiterates our commitment to maritime intelligence, combining raw AIS data with advanced artificial intelligence to provide unparalleled insights into vessel movements. By leveraging our proprietary geospatial database and the unique blend of terrestrial, satellite, and human intelligence, AIS+ ensures the most accurate and reliable vessel tracking available. Our AIS+ solution, powered by SeaTech™, a combination of differentiated data, context and support, not only enhances operational efficiency but also empowers our customers across diverse sectors to optimize their strategies and gain a competitive edge." — Parvin Conners, Chief Operating Officer, Lloyd’s List Intelligence 

AIS+ can be combined with a one-off delivery of historical data for initial model building and analysis. As the oldest vessel tracking company in the world, we can provide data going back to 2008.

Learn more about AIS+ here or contact us about your specific requirements.

Lloyd’s List intelligence, a pioneering provider of data, insights and analytics to the global maritime industry, and the Lloyd’s Agency Network, the world’s most extensive marine surveying, claims, and recovery handling network, part of the Corporation of Lloyd’s, are delighted to announce the continuation of their exclusive partnership for the next decade and beyond.

This partnership gives Lloyd’s List Intelligence access to over 250 Lloyd’s Agents and a further 300 sub-agents in 170 countries, who host, maintain, and continue to expand Lloyd’s List Intelligence’s extensive and proprietary terrestrial AIS network in a majority of the world’s trading ports and in strategic locations where other providers do not have access. Agents provide validated vessel sightings of ships in ports even when AIS is unavailable or switched off in cases of spoofing or vessel arrests.

The reliability of Lloyd’s Agents is what ensures market-leading 95%+ uptime of Lloyd’s List Intelligence’s terrestrial AIS network and the most granular port call data in the market. Combined with industry leading AI-powered analytics, this partnership provides the insight needed to detect AIS spoofing and other deceptive shipping practices.

On-the-ground Lloyd’s agents and sub-agents report marine casualties exclusively to Lloyd’s List Intelligence when they occur, like the grounding of the Ever Given, and add a critical additional layer of human intelligence to port conditions, supply chain monitoring, and validated vessel positions data. This means Lloyd’s List Intelligence customers have access to data and human insight unavailable elsewhere.

Lloyd’s List Intelligence support the Lloyd’s insurance market by reporting all marine casualties confirmed as total losses to Lloyd’s, which are captured in the Lloyd’s Loss Book.

Parvin Conners, Chief Operating Officer of Lloyd’s List Intelligence, says, “We are delighted to be re-cementing our partnership with the Lloyd’s Agency Network. Our shared values of transparency and accuracy form the foundation of our relationship, ensuring the maritime community and all professionals connected to the maritime industry get the insight they need to face emerging threats, support safe and lawful maritime trade, and take advantage of new opportunities.”

David Lawrence, Head of Global Marine Services & Broker Oversight, of Lloyd’s, says: “Lloyd’s is proud to extend our partnership with Lloyd’s List Intelligence for a further 10 years and in doing so continue to capture local insights through our agents on the ground, fostering an important partnership that provides vital data, insights and analytics to the global maritime industry.”

Learn more about the how Lloyd’s List Intelligence’s agreement with the Lloyd’s Agency Network benefits our customers here.

For more information on Lloyd’s List Intelligence’s maritime intelligence solutions please request a call back.

London, UK, January 29, 2024 - Vortexa, the leading real-time global analytics platform for energy and freight markets and Lloyd's List Intelligence, the trusted source for maritime data and intelligence, announce a strategic partnership. This collaboration, marked by mutual data licensing agreements, lays the foundation for future product, market analysis, editorial and commercial collaborations between the two leading players in the industry.

Vortexa customers are set to benefit significantly from access to the world's most comprehensive terrestrial AIS network. Located strategically at the heart of ports, this network delivers unparalleled global coverage that is unobstructed and precise, setting it apart from the aggregation of large amateur AIS antennas. The integration of Lloyd's List Intelligence's industry-leading vessel characteristics datasets into Vortexa's analytics will robustly enhance its freight analytics offering, strengthening both existing data and future modeling capabilities.

Fabio Kuhn, CEO Vortexa: "This collaboration marks a significant moment for Vortexa and our customers. The addition of Lloyd's List Intelligence's terrestrial AIS network and vessel characteristics datasets elevates the precision and depth of our analytics, providing unparalleled insights into the energy and freight markets."

Lloyd's List Intelligence gains access to reliable and accurate cargo flow information and state of the art ship-to-ship transfer algorithms through Vortexa's market-leading cargo tracking analytics and will collaborate with Vortexa to enhance key workflows around cargo flow and risk evaluation.

Michael Dell, CEO Lloyd's List Intelligence: "We are thrilled to embark on this journey with Vortexa. This strategic partnership showcases the benefits of bringing connected customers and workflows together all in one place, whilst offering transparency around crucial cargo flow information for risk evaluation. This aligns with our mission to continually enhance value and precision for our customers.” 

The Vortexa and Lloyd's List Intelligence partnership brings together expertise, innovation and unparalleled insights. If you would like to discuss how we can support you, please get in touch here.

About Vortexa
Vortexa provides market-leading real-time data and advanced analytics for energy and freight markets. With the most accurate and complete picture of global flows, freight and inventories, Vortexa covers crude oil, refined products, LPG and LNG, across all vessel classes. We help traders, analysts and freight professionals gain a competitive edge into complex and opaque markets by making better trading decisions with confidence. Vortexa is a multidisciplinary force of over 120 employees combining the best of energy and freight expertise, data science and engineering across major hubs in London, Singapore, Houston, New York City, Geneva and the UAE. 

About Lloyd’s List Intelligence
Lloyd’s List Intelligence is the industry expert for maritime insight, data, and analytics trusted by more than 60,000 professionals across the globe to drive commercial advantage, evaluate risk, and support the efficient and lawful movement of seaborne trade.

Vortexa Media Contact: natasha.adams@vortexa.com
Lloyd’s List Intelligence Media Contact: tom.amber@lloydslistintelligence.com

Lloyd’s List Intelligence has been awarded the ISO 9001:2015 quality management standard for our Seasearcher solution and full suite of data and insights applications, following an independent, nine-month assessment by the British Standards Institution (BSI).  The qualification recognises our expertise in data quality, handling and security, evidenced through our proprietary, class-leading data quality framework, COACT. This governs how data is gathered, cleaned, enhanced and shared and ensures a rigorous focus on Consistency, Origin, Accuracy, Completeness and Timeliness.

Launched in 1987, ISO 9001 is the world’s leading quality management standard, with over one million organisations in 178 countries certified. It provides an evidence-based framework to help companies optimise day-to-day operations and plan for growth, with a focus on customer needs and continuous improvement. 

Our ISO 9001 accreditation has been awarded by the BSI – the UK’s national standards body.  The standard investigates seven core aspects of business: customers, leadership, engagement, processes, improvement, evidence and relationships. Organisations achieving the standard must define their operations and demonstrate how essential functions, such as staff training, customer service and supply chain management, follow best practice. Measuring performance against quantifiable targets is a key requirement for ISO 9001, as is a thorough evaluation of risk. Companies also have to evaluate the threat posed by events such as staff shortages, equipment failures or rising costs, and have plans in place to mitigate them.  

ISO 9001’s emphasis on consistency and control is particularly relevant to Lloyd’s List Intelligence: our data is a keystone in a vast, complex and economically vital industry, so the accuracy, quality, completeness and timeliness of our information is fundamentally important. 

Parvin Conners, Chief Operating Officer said, “Following a rigorous nine-month long assessment we were delighted to be awarded ISO9001:2015 certification. As our COACT framework demonstrates, data quality is central to the purpose of Lloyd’s List Intelligence, and our suite of workflow solutions. This accreditation acknowledges the effort that goes into monitoring and maintaining this. It also demonstrates that our customers’ needs and interests are at the heart of our business, and that we have a world-class organisation dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of service, data handling and security.

Following our announcement in early August, we’re delighted now to have closed on our sale to Montagu, a leading mid-market private equity firm committed to finding and growing businesses that make the world work.

Montagu brings proven growth capabilities to help companies achieve their ambitions and unlock their full potential. Partnering with Montagu supports our continued delivery of innovative maritime analytics for customers, and we are confident of a bright and prosperous future under their ownership.

• Cut delays and costs with transformative maritime analytics
• Predict destinations with up to 70% accuracy
• Predict time of arrival to port within +/- 10 hours and time to berth within 1-2 hours 

27% of vessels fail to arrive within 24 hours of their published Estimated Time of Arrival. This lack of accurate AIS-based data puts pressure on ports, hampers logistics and pushes up costs. This could soon change, however, thanks to transformative new analytics from Lloyd’s List Intelligence, the maritime data experts, trusted by more than 60,000 professionals across the globe to power their decisions in operations, compliance, and risk management.

Predictive Fleet Analytics is the first ever ‘air traffic control’ for the world’s commercial shipping fleet. It combines near-real-time data collected from 3000 sources, resulting in over 327 million AIS vessel positions monthly across the global fleet. Specially designed advanced analytics, AI, and machine learning transform this unique data into accurate estimated times of arrival into port (ETA), arrival times at berth (ETB), and times of departure (ETD) for key active commercial vessels, along with current and future estimates of port congestion.

Lloyd’s List Intelligence are the first to bring ETBs and ETDs to market, and no other provider brings together a broader range of predicted, actionable insight.

Industry-wide problems

Currently, over a third (36%) of Automatic Identification System (AIS) messages are missing ETA data, while another 27% of vessels fail to arrive within a day of their published ETA. Even destination data is unreliable, with 63% of vessels publishing one port destination but ending up at another (source: Lloyd’s List Intelligence 2020 AIS message analysis).

A powerful solution, requested by customers

Destination and ETA data gaps represent one of the most severe business challenges to the supply chain – impacting the ability of businesses to work efficiently, effectively and profitably:

• Financial losses: like demurrage charges, additional waiting and handling fees and invalid pricing
• Damaged customer relationships: from delivery misjudgements, schedule changes and reassignments
• Loss of sales: from a lack of visibility, reactive service delivery which have a negative impact on customer experience

Informed by over 100 customer and stakeholder interviews across companies and government organisations, Predictive Fleet Analytics has been built in response to these widespread industry challenges.

Delivered as API data and integrated into the Seasearcher platform, Predictive Fleet Analytics helps customers gain greater certainty around estimated destination, arrival, berthing, and departure times, along with port congestion status and waiting times. This greater level of insight is key to more efficient voyages and port operations and the optimal use of vessels, fuel, port facilities and services, and the teams that operate them all, resulting in time and cost savings.

With analytics powerhouse partner SAS, a leader in artificial intelligence (AI), data mining, modelling and forecasting, Lloyd’s List Intelligence have developed this pioneering new method of calculating, predicting, and learning from vessel movements and behaviours in ways that were not possible before.

The AI and machine learning models predict destinations with an accuracy of 70%, ETA to port within +/- 10 hours, and ETB to within 1-2 hours, catering for key vessel types in the commercial fleet operating to both fixed and non-fixed schedules.

“Predictive Fleet Analytics allows our customers to let decisions on scheduling and routes be driven by the best quality data, so that shipping companies can save on resources and costs,” says Parvin Conners, Vice President of Product and Data for Lloyd’s List Intelligence. “This new level of prediction around destinations and arrivals helps ports to optimise their services and facilities and for maritime servicing businesses to run more smoothly. All of this is possible thanks to the strength of our data and analytics and how we use AI and machine learning.”

Lloyd’s List Intelligence are pleased to announce a partnership with TradeSun to provide data to the TradeSun platform that supports enhanced risk evaluation for trade compliance professionals.

In response to rapidly evolving international sanctions and emerging risk, TradeSun clients can now access Lloyd’s List Intelligence datasets for vessel tracking and ownership and Bill of Lading tracking from within their platform. It follows Lloyd’s List Intelligence launching vessel risk ratings that help finance and compliance professionals evaluate risk more easily.

Lloyd’s List Intelligence’s expanded dataset provides vessel risk indicators and invaluable Bill of Lading tracking for the whole voyage, including transshipment information. This is sourced from Lloyd’s List Intelligence quality assessed vessel characteristics, ownership and real-time tracking data, all of which help TradeSun customers to reduce significantly the risk of non-compliance.

The TradeSun Platform extracts and standardises transaction data, performs multiple compliance activities in real-time, intercepting illicit activities in flight, and ensures trade documents meet international standards (UCP 600/ISBP). Comprehensive reporting, audit trails and prescriptive analytics are provided across the platform.

“With global regulators increasingly turning to sanctions as a pressure tool, players in trade must be vigilant in adhering to the evolving regulatory landscape,” says Nigel Hook, TradeSun CEO. “We’ve partnered with Lloyd’s List Intelligence to further enhance TradeSun’s screening capabilities and give customers confidence in compliance by combining industry-leading data with top tier technology.”

Lloyd’s List Intelligence, part of Informa, has been at the heart of the industry for over 300 years, providing the intelligence, data and expertise that support the shipping market and keep global trade moving efficiently.

Thomas Richmond, Strategic Partnerships Manager at Lloyd’s List Intelligence, noted “Compliance professionals around the world need more than great data. They need the kind of greater insight that our unique data and analytics can bring. This powerful and timely addition to the TradeSun Platform will help professionals meet the escalating trade compliance standards.”

We are delighted to announce our partnership with analytics powerhouse SAS, a leader in artificial intelligence (AI), data mining, modelling and forecasting. We too believe in turning data into answers so that everyone can make better decisions.

SAS’s powerful AI will be an important part of new and deeper levels of insight into the behaviours of vessels and fleets using our most complete and verified maritime data. With a number of AI-enhanced services currently in development, our collaboration will set a new standard of insight for the maritime industry.