Screen Vessel
Check any vessel against 9 international sanctions lists (OFAC, EU, UN, UK, AU, JP, CH, CA, NZ)
Watchlist
Vessels you're monitoring — organise by client, add notes and documents
Alerts
Events on your watched vessels
Ask AI
Ask questions about your vessels, sanctions risk, or maritime intelligence
Reports
Your compliance snapshot — what changed, what you screened, proof of due diligence
Chokepoint Intelligence
Real-time transit data across 8 global chokepoints
Fleet Map
Your watchlist vessels — live positions, voyages, and port visits
Threat Map
Sanctioned vessels with known positions
Port Congestion
Live wait times, weekly trend, commodity flow movers and your fleet's port touches
Most congested right now
Commodity flow movers (this week vs last)
Biggest ±% changes in tonnage handled by commodity class per port direction. Up arrows = throughput increasing this week; down = decreasing.
Your fleet's port touches (last 30 days)
Recent port arrivals on vessels you watch. Compared against the typical wait at that port over the last 30 days so an abnormal stay stands out.
Team
Shared workspace with per-member audit trail. Compliance-ready reports and exports.
Members
Members share watchlists, notes, and reports. Every action is attributed in the audit trail.
Activity feed
Recent actions by each team member.
Audit log
Search and filter every team screening for compliance review and incident investigations.
Market Intelligence
Commodity flow boards aggregated from voyage data we observe directly.
Guide
Everything in this dashboard — what each tab does, when to use it, what's in each tier. New here? Start at "60-second tour" below.
60-second tour
If you only do four things on your first visit, do these:
- Screen a vessel. Go to Screen, paste any IMO, MMSI, or name. You'll see sanctions hits across 9 government lists, current location if known, and a small threat-map preview below.
- Build a watchlist. From a screening result, click "+ Add to Watchlist". The vessel is monitored continuously from then on. Open Watchlist to see all of yours, organise by client, and add notes / supporting documents.
- Turn on alerts. Go to Settings → "Alert subscriptions" and pick which signals you want emailed or Telegram'd (sanctions status change, ownership change, AIS-dark, ship-to-ship, port call, chokepoint transit).
- Run a batch screen. From Screen, click "Batch" to paste up to your tier's batch limit of IMOs/MMSIs and get a single results sheet. Useful for charter party due diligence or new client onboarding.
Screen
What it does: Real-time sanctions screening of any vessel against 9 government lists — OFAC SDN (US), UK OFSI, EU CFSP, UN Security Council, Australia DFAT, Canada SEMA, Japan MOF, Swiss SECO, New Zealand DPMC.
How to use: Paste an IMO (7 digits), MMSI (9 digits), or vessel name. Autocomplete suggests matches as you type. Hit "Screen" or click a suggestion to run the check.
What you get back: Sanctions status (clean / hit), which lists the vessel appears on, designation programs (e.g. OFAC SDN: IRAN-EO13902), current AIS position if recent, basic vessel detail (flag, type, DWT), and a "+ Add to Watchlist" button so you can monitor going forward.
Batch: Click "Batch" for bulk screening — paste a list, get a downloadable result sheet. Tier limits apply.
Watchlist
What it does: Your monitored vessels — anything you've added gets continuously re-screened against the sanctions lists, with position, ownership, and behavioural signals refreshed in the background.
Per-vessel actions: Click any row to open the detail panel — current sanctions status, full corporate chain, last known position, recent transits, change history. Add private notes (compliance commentary) and upload supporting documents (Q88, charter party, KYC files) that stay attached to the vessel record for audit defence.
Organise by client: Tag vessels with a client name to group them by who you're working for. Filters and saved views available on the right.
Tier limits: Free 5 / Essential 20 / Professional 250 / Enterprise unlimited. Counter top of page shows current usage. Notes + document upload are Professional+ only.
Alerts
What it does: The event log of every notable thing that's happened to vessels on your watchlist — sanctions status changes, ownership / operator / flag changes, AIS-dark events (vessel silent >3 days), suspected ship-to-ship transfers, port calls, chokepoint transits, name changes.
How to use: Scroll the feed to see what's happened recently. Each event links to the affected vessel for context. Filter by event type or vessel using the controls top of page.
Delivery channels: Configure email + Telegram delivery in Settings → Alert subscriptions. Pick which event types you want pushed vs which stay in the in-app feed only.
Ask AI
What it does: Natural-language Q&A on top of your data + the global sanctioned-fleet picture. Ask about a specific vessel, a chokepoint, a sanctions regime, or a fleet pattern, and get a grounded answer with supporting data inline.
Good prompts to start with:
- "What's the compliance picture for IMO 9876543?"
- "How many sanctioned tankers are in the Strait of Hormuz right now?"
- "Show me vessels on my watchlist that went AIS-dark in the last 7 days."
- "Summarise this week's OFAC SDN additions related to Iran shipping."
- "Which P&I clubs have the most sanctioned tonnage exposure?"
Tier limits: AI assistant unlocks at Professional. Free + Essential: 0 queries. Professional: 50 / month. Enterprise: unlimited.
Reports
What it does: Generates exportable PDF reports for audit defence — sanctions screening certificates, watchlist snapshots, weekly compliance summaries.
Report types:
- Per-vessel screening certificate — timestamped, naming all 9 lists checked, with vessel detail and result.
- Watchlist snapshot — your full monitored fleet plus current sanctions status.
- Weekly compliance summary — what changed on your watchlist in the last 7 days.
- Batch screening result — output of a Screen → Batch run.
Tier access: Weekly report unlocks at Essential. Daily report + CSV audit-trail export unlock at Professional. Enterprise adds on-demand reports.
All reports include the source-licence block citing each upstream government authority and the verify-against-official-notice disclaimer.
Team Enterprise
What it does: Manage a shared workspace with up to 3 seats — owner, manager, and member roles. Everyone sees the same watchlist, notes, documents, and audit log.
Roles: Owner (billing + transferable). Manager (can invite/remove members, can transfer ownership). Member (full read/write on shared data, no team admin).
Audit trail: Every action (screening, watchlist add, note edit, report generated) is logged with who and when. Use for compliance demonstrations.
Tab is hidden on lower tiers — upgrade to Enterprise to use.
Chokepoints
What it does: Live activity at the 8 maritime chokepoints we track — Hormuz, Suez, Bab el-Mandeb, Malacca, Panama, Turkish Straits, Cape of Good Hope, English Channel (incl. Dover Strait).
What you see per chokepoint:
- Live vessel count crossing right now
- How many of those are sanctioned (red highlight)
- Direction split (eastbound vs westbound, where applicable)
- Recent transit events (entry, exit, direction, timestamp)
- Watchlist touchpoints — your monitored vessels currently in this chokepoint
Public live maps: Hormuz, Suez, Malacca, and Bab el-Mandeb also have public landing pages at straitupmaritime.com that anyone can view without logging in.
Fleet Map
What it does: A global map showing the positions of every vessel on your watchlist. Useful to spot clustering, route patterns, or "wait — that one's somewhere strange" at a glance.
Visuals: Each vessel is a marker. Hover for name, IMO, last-position timestamp. Click to open the detail panel. Sanctioned vessels are red-tinted; AIS-dark vessels are marked with a dotted ring at last-known position.
Position refresh by tier: Free shows last known AIS only (no background refresh). Essential refreshes every 24h (daily). Professional every 12h. Enterprise every 6h (4× daily). A 60-min stale gate sits underneath all tiers so we don't burn position-API credit when the free position service is already fresh.
Threat Map
What it does: Global view of all 2,400+ active sanctioned vessels worldwide, not just your watchlist. Use this for situational awareness — where are sanctioned tankers loading right now, which chokepoints are seeing concentration, which regions are quiet.
Filters: Filter by sanctions program (e.g. OFAC SDN: IRAN), vessel type (crude tanker / product tanker / bulk / cargo), flag state, or behavioural state (AIS-dark / recent STS / recent flag-hop).
Differs from Fleet Map: Fleet Map = your watchlist. Threat Map = the whole sanctioned-vessel population.
Port Congestion
What it does: Live wait-time picture across 270 commercial ports. Each port shows current average wait time, the 7-day delta with confidence interval, and a "commodity mover" badge flagging whether load patterns are shifting in/out of the port.
When to use: Operational planning (which alternative port is faster right now), trade-flow analysis (port X queue is growing → tonnage is rerouting), commodity-trader signal (e.g. Chinese port queues collapsing = product flowing out).
Watchlist touchpoints: If a vessel on your watchlist is at one of these ports, the port row highlights it.
Market Intel
What it does: Macro view of the maritime sector backed by our own physical data — chokepoint flow correlation, commodity flow estimation per region (Vortexa-equivalent), disruption-impact mapping, vessel-history research surface.
When to use: Pre-charter market view, route optimisation under disruption (e.g. Suez closure → rerouting via Cape), positioning ahead of regulatory action.
Differs from Threat Map: Threat Map is sanctioned-vessel-centric (compliance). Market Intel is flow-centric (commercial). Same underlying data, different analytical view.
Settings
Account: name, email, password (magic-link reset), company.
Billing: current plan, upgrade / downgrade, payment method, invoices. Mid-cycle upgrades reset the billing anchor to today; downgrades take effect at end of current term.
Alert subscriptions: pick which event types push to email / Telegram. Per-event-type toggle. Telegram requires linking the bot (instructions in-app).
API access: generate / rotate your API key (paid tiers). For programmatic screening from your own systems.
Tiers & limits
| Feature | Free | Essential ($19) | Professional ($99) | Enterprise ($399) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vessel screenings / month | 5 | 100 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Watchlist vessels | 5 | 20 | 250 | Unlimited |
| Company watchlist | — | — | 25 | Unlimited |
| Vessel groups | — | — | 20 | Unlimited |
| Position refresh cadence | Last known only | Daily (24h) | 12-hourly | 6-hourly (4× daily) |
| Sanctions / dark / STS alerts | In-app only | Email + webhook | Email + webhook | Email + webhook |
| Weekly compliance report (PDF) | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Daily report + CSV audit trail | — | — | ✓ | ✓ + on-demand |
| Vessel notes + document upload | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ask AI queries / month | — | — | 50 | Unlimited |
| Team seats (shared workspace) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Fleet Map · Threat Map · Chokepoints | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Prices are USD/month. Change plan in Settings → Billing. Mid-cycle upgrades take effect immediately and reset the billing anchor; downgrades take effect at end of current term. API access + SSO/SAML + white-label + dedicated success manager available on the Custom tier — contact sales.
FAQ
My vessel didn't return a hit — does that mean it's safe?
It means it isn't currently on one of the 9 government sanctions lists we screen. That's the strongest available negative-finding signal but it's not legal advice. Combine it with your standard due-diligence (charter party, KYC on counterparties, owner reputation). Sanctions lists are point-in-time — re-screen at every material event.
How fresh is the sanctions data?
We sync every published list daily from the issuing authority directly (OFAC SDN, UK OFSI, EU CFSP, UN SC, AU DFAT, CA SEMA, JP MOF, CH SECO, NZ DPMC). Most additions are reflected within a few hours of the authority publishing.
What if AIS data is wrong or missing?
AIS is broadcast by the vessel itself — bad actors switch it off ("AIS-dark"), spoof position, or use neighbours' MMSIs. We flag AIS-dark events as alerts so you see the silence, not just the absence. For high-stakes due diligence, position data should never be your only signal.
Where do the per-vessel facts come from?
Sanctions designations come direct from the 9 issuing government authorities (OFAC SDN, UK OFSI, EU CFSP, UN Security Council, Australia DFAT, Canada SEMA, Japan MOF, Swiss SECO, New Zealand DPMC) — refreshed daily, each entry citing the specific list and program. Identity and corporate-chain fields (owner, manager, class, P&I) are aggregated from authoritative public ship registers and our own extractors over the OFAC SDN beneficial-owner block. Position data is derived from AIS broadcasts (the international maritime safety standard) aggregated through our own position infrastructure.
Can I use this data for compliance decisions?
The screening results, source citations, and PDF certificates are designed for audit defence. They are not legal or compliance advice. Always verify a listing against the issuing authority's official notice before any consequential decision. The "Report a correction" link on every news article and the Settings → Support form route to legal@straitupmaritime.com.
How do I cancel?
Settings → Billing → Cancel subscription. Your access stays active until end of current billing period. No questions, no friction. We'd appreciate a short note on why, so we can improve.
Account Settings
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Telegram alerts
Real-time sanctioned-hit alerts delivered to your personal Telegram in addition to email. Get your chat ID by messaging @userinfobot on Telegram, then start a chat with @datapro_2026_bot so it can message you.
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