Staying compliant while optimising operations is a complex task in the constantly evolving maritime industry. Compliance analysts and industry professionals are always searching for innovative tools to gain a better understanding of vessel activities while mitigating risks effectively.
The maritime industry faces a growing web of global sanctions, environmental regulations, and compliance requirements that are reshaping how companies navigate international waters.
The maritime industry is advancing rapidly, with data-driven insights now at the forefront of decision-making. Granular port data, particularly when combined with Automatic Identification System (AIS) data, has emerged as a game-changer.
The maritime industry is undergoing a profound transformation, with the rising importance of harnessing a range of big data sources such as AIS (Automatic Identification System) data to identify and manage potential risks.
Russia’s industrial scale sanctions-evasion programme is growing more complicated and sophisticated, courtesy of an ever expanding “dark fleet” of subterfuge shipping and a shadowy network of brass plate companies and middlemen beyond the reach of Western interventions.
The US, Australia and members of the Group of Seven countries have announced a long-anticipated crackdown on evasive and deceptive shipping practices to breach price caps imposed on Russian oil trades, in their first maritime advisory on sanctions in more than three years.
The Red Sea is experiencing a notable shift in maritime activity, particularly in the average daily number of active vessels. Among the affected sectors, containerships, general cargo ships, and vehicle carriers stand out as they exhibit downward trends, marking a departure from both recent and historical patterns.
As the supply chain crisis evolves and new areas of risk emerge, another trend has become apparent: a growing global fleet of moribund vessels, saved from the scrapyard by persistently high freight rates and the illicit oil trade.
Read expert analysis conducted by Lloyd’s List Intelligence on the high number of dark vessels and AIS gaps around the Kerch Strait, with research sourced from Seasearcher Advanced Risk & Compliance.
Is your AIS data incomplete or unreliable? For many shipping professionals, this spells disaster with time and money wasted on poor conclusions and misallocation of resources. Today, we’ll share 7 tips to help bridge your maritime data gaps so you can boost efficiency for your fleets or vessels of interest.
The constantly moving and changing maritime industry needs data and insight that evolves. That’s why we’ve teamed up with SAS, leading innovators in artificial intelligence. When machine learning is applied to our powerful historical and real-time database, new and more advanced insight about vessel and fleet behaviour emerges.
Vessels that fit the Houthi’s so-called “target profile” are doing more than just rerouting to avoid being targeted by the Iranian-backed militant group.
In an increasingly complex regulatory environment, it is vital for businesses to highlight and assess risks associated with status or operations that can influence or change the way they deal with shippers, suppliers, or their own customers.
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Numbers reflect cargo-carrying vessels of 10,000dwt+. Pre-Houthi attack average taken for the period November 6 - December 3, 2023.
There was a new low in total transit volumes of all vessel types through the Bab el Mandeb strait in the week ending March 10 (week 10 of 2024) with just 218 passings recorded. This is 60% lower than the ‘normal’ pre-Houthi attack average in vessel terms and 57% down compared with the same week last year.
Tanker operators are rerouting vessels away from the Red Sea in the wake of a Houthi attack which left a Trafigura-chartered vessel in flames over the weekend.
The key to success in identifying maritime compliance risk is being able to understand and rate patterns of high-risk behaviour and activity as quickly as possible. Ideally, to do so as soon as the activity emerges and before it reaches alarming levels.
A new offshore logistics network is evolving to transport Russian oil and circumvent the restrictions of sanctions and expensive insurance.
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Russia’s supply chains have shown resilience since the invasion of Ukraine, with cargo flows being redirected to ‘friendly’ countries using transport corridors touted by President Vladimir Putin as long-term priority trade routes.
Seaborne trade between Iran and Russia via the Caspian Sea, a suspected route for weapons shipments, is increasing and ships plying the trade are routinely doing so with Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals turned off.
The conflict in Yemen has the potential to spill over into shipping, and while it is unlikely that international commercial trade will be a direct target, data reveals why governments are so keen to keep the Bab al-Mandeb Strait secure.
The number of bulk carriers transiting the Bab el-Mandeb Strait plunged to a fresh low for the week ending March 3 as Houthi attacks on commercial shipping pushed overall traffic in the region 53% lower compared with the year-ago period.
EU member states have adopted an 11th package of sanctions that confirm plans to ban access to EU ports for ships which engage in ship-to-ship transfers if there is cause to suspect the cargo is of Russian origin.
Passings through the Bab el Mandab strait are showing signs of stabilisation with vessel transits falling by 4% from last week to around 231, although this figure will increase when factoring in vessels switching off their AIS transmitters. However, this is down from 459 vessels in the equivalent week (6) of 2023.
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For the first time since the Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the region started in December, vessel transits through the Bab el Mandeb strait increased week on week.
There was a small increase in vessel transits through the Bab el Mandeb strait at 229 in the week ending March 17 (week 11 of 2024), compared with 219 in the previous seven days.
As ports and global shipping become ever more complicated, accurate geospatial ports data can be the key to efficiency and costs savings
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has led to the biggest land war in Europe since 1945, the biggest commodity shock since the 1970s and the most far-reaching sanctions regime since the 1930s.
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Our data shows that, for every sanctioned vessel that continues to commit probable dark port callings and dark ship-to-ship transfers, there could be three more vessels not on any sanctions list that are actively taking part in the same type of probable illicit activity.
Predictive Fleet Analytics is revolutionising supply chain management by giving reliable and accurate data you cannot find anywhere else.
The movement of illicit cargo across water is increasingly difficult to pinpoint. Tactics used by owners and operators to conceal the transport and exchange of materials that are sanctioned are evolving and becoming increasingly sophisticated.
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Russia’s maritime trading patterns out of Sea of Azov ports is increasingly being obfuscated by vessels switching off their automatic identification systems (AIS). While the frequency of ships switching off AIS in the Kerch Strait has been elevated since the outset of the military activity in Ukraine, the number of AIS gaps has risen dramatically since September.
Radiating World Shipping Services LLC, one of the world’s largest dark fleet tanker operators and ship managers, is moving its tankers to a newly formed company to avoid UK sanctions. Read expert analysis conducted by Lloyd’s List on the growing trend of dark fleet operators engaged in Russian trades evolving their management structures to avoid sanctions, with data sourced from Seasearcher Advanced Risk & Compliance.
Casualty reports totalled 700 in the third quarter of 2022, the highest number of incidents since 2008.
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Panama has retained its position as the world’s leading flag state in terms of gross tonnage for 2022 but is facing strong competition from Liberia, which is rapidly closing the gap to its rival, while China also recorded exceptional growth in the past 12 months.
The deal to allow the safe transport of grain out of the Ukraine by sea was an unprecedented agreement between enemy combatants. Yet, the potential risks of using the corridor during the ‘safe’ window of time were considered significant.
For the people involved in keeping our oceans safe, marine casualty data is critical, but it’s also increasingly vital to keep the world’s economy moving.
In a world where the sea is a vital conduit for international trade, understanding the integrity of maritime operations is paramount. However, the waters are muddied by deceptive practices that not only breach international laws, but also threaten global commerce. The case of the vessel Abyss, flagged by Palau, serves as a stark reminder of the risks lurking in the shadows of the shipping industry.
Lloyd’s List Intelligence vessel tracking picked up one such example with the case of the Shanaye Queen, which raised eyebrows when it seemingly executed an impossibly rapid diversion to Pakistan’s Karachi anchorage.
Lloyd’s List Intelligence vessel tracking picked up one such example with the case of Blazers, which suspiciously spent an extensive period drifting in ballast in international waters off Angola’s coastline.
When navigating the complex world of maritime trade and compliance, the most valuable asset at your disposal is accurate, reliable data – especially in sectors where poor insights could lead to multi-million financial losses and fines.
Despite the increasing frequency of Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea in recent weeks, the number of cargo-carrying vessels over 10,000dwt increased to a daily average of 240 in the week ending February 25, up from 213 vessels in the previous week.
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Accurate and timely vessel tracking data is the backbone of the maritime industry because it makes shipping operations safer, more efficient, and more effective.
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Shipping’s recent extended rerouting of east-west trades around the Cape of Good Hope, to avoid potential Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, has led to huge increases in throughput at some ports, while others have seen dramatic declines.
Reliability, resilience and security of production locations and supply chains have become more important due to the pandemic and concurrent geopolitical tensions.
The oil price cap is the latest in a series of escalating sanctions against the Russian Federation, implemented by mainly Western nations and intends to reduce the revenue Russia earns from oil, weaken its economy and starve funding for its war in Ukraine.
Read expert analysis conducted by Lloyd’s List Intelligence on the continuing trade of blacklisted vessels in spite of recent international sanctions, with research sourced from Seasearcher Advanced Risk & Compliance.
Increasingly complex sanctions compliance standards leave operators more exposed to penalties - unless they have an advanced risk and compliance solution.
When it comes to sanctions compliance, the maritime industry needs more than the basic vessel tracking tools.
Supply chain resilience became a political imperative as bottlenecks wiped a conservative 1% off global GDP. Businesses moved from ‘just-in-time’ to ‘just-in-case’ procurement, stockpiling billions of dollars’ worth of inventories as a form of insurance in an increasingly uncertain world.
Making sense of a spider web of digital information, false leads and anecdotes involves persistence, intuition and the ability to dive deep into the world’s preeminent store of marine data.
The first port to introduce containerisation to the nation, it lost the primacy to the west coast port of Los Angeles in 1989, as booming trade with China boosted the Pacific gateway.
This data is essential for maintaining efficient operations, ensuring compliance, and optimising business development strategies. Alternative fuel and engine types are increasingly being utilised on vessels, creating market problems but also opportunities.
The recent spate of attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, including two incidents in which vessels were abandoned and one ultimately sank, has had no initial effect on Bab el Mandeb transits, according to Lloyd’s List Intelligence data.
Analysis of Lloyd’s List Intelligence data shows how ships have been redeployed to continue trading, while others maintain regular voyages, revealing the limits of US sanctions programmes.
