ShadowFleet is the sanctions-risk layer for oil-trade finance. Real-time vessel intelligence cross-checking satellite, AIS and ground systems — so banks and insurers can clear a transaction, or kill it, in seconds.
Shadow-fleet vessels switch off their AIS, run STS transfers on the high seas, and rotate flags every few weeks. Every payment a bank processes against that cargo is a potential billion-dollar penalty.
There is no real-time, predictive monitoring of the grey fleet. So banks process. And pray.
ShadowFleet cross-checks two independent observation stacks — satellite and ground — and surfaces every disagreement. The disagreements are where the dark fleet lives.
SAR imagery, optical passes and space-based AIS receivers, merged into a single positional truth refreshed every few minutes. Spoofed AIS positions show up as a ship that “isn't there.”
Coastal AIS receivers, port-call records, customs declarations, cargo manifests and known sanctions registers — what every ground-based observer thinks the ship is doing.
Every vessel is scored on its signal coherence — the gap between what the satellites see, what the ground reports, and what the AIS broadcasts about itself. Anomalies bubble up as a red flag, before a bank ever touches the payment.
Green or red, in seconds. Type the IMO. Get a verdict. One mistake without our tool = a fine of up to $1.3B. Compliance officers stop guessing.
Every check generates a cryptographically signed PDF with the ship's full history. The bank has hard evidence it acted in accordance with the law.
Banks process hundreds of transactions a day. ShadowFleet runs at 2.1s P95 — fast enough to live inside your payment flow, not beside it.
We surface every STS transfer, AIS gap and suspicious drift in a vessel's history — so P&I clubs can price the risk they're underwriting, or decline it.
This is the same compliance-officer view we ship to banks. Try the sample IMOs to see a clean vessel, a vessel on watch, and a confirmed OFAC hit.
Our clients — banks, commodity funds and P&I insurers — are concentrated in three hubs, all routing payments against the same oil trade lanes. We're going where the regulatory pressure is highest first.
Plug ShadowFleet into your compliance flow for 30 days, on your real transaction volume. If we don't catch at least three sanctions-exposed transactions you would have processed — you don't pay.