Know Your Vessel.
Know Your Documents.

We screen against 9 international sanctions lists daily: OFAC SDN (US), EU Consolidated, UN Security Council, UK OFSI, Australia DFAT, Japan MOF, Swiss SECO, Canada, and New Zealand. Matches on unique identifiers (IMO/MMSI) are flagged as "confirmed." Name-based matches are flagged as "review required" with a full explanation of why. Every flag includes the exact sanctions list entry, match method, and plain-English explainer so your compliance team can make informed decisions.

We use AIS transponder data from multiple independent feeds, cross-referenced with SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite detections. This allows us to detect vessels that have disabled their AIS transponders -- a common sanctions evasion tactic known as "going dark."

Ask any question in plain English about your vessels, sanctions risk, maritime activity, or your own uploaded documents. The AI has access to your watchlist, our sanctions database, real-time vessel positions, chokepoint activity, and every charter party, certificate and policy in your Document Vault. It gives specific, sourced answers — citing the exact sanctions entry or document clause — not generic summaries. Available on all paid plans.

Upload any maritime document — charter parties, class and statutory certificates, P&I and H&M policies, SIRE and PSC reports, statements of facts — and the vault reads it for you. Ask it anything in plain English and it answers with a citation back to the exact clause, then highlights that clause on the page. It auto-classifies each document, extracts the key fields and dates, alerts you 90/30/7 days before anything expires, and flags charter parties that have no BIMCO sanctions clause — the contractual hole that leaves you exposed. Included on Professional; the continuous fleet-wide Compliance Monitor is on Enterprise.

Yes. Your documents are stored immutably with a content hash and a full audit log, isolated to your account. Search runs on a private, self-hosted text model — your documents are never used to train anyone's AI. Only the specific passages needed to answer a question are sent to the language model that drafts the cited answer.

Yes — free forever, not a trial. You get 5 screenings per month, a 5-vessel watchlist, and access to fleet maps, threat maps, and chokepoint intelligence. No credit card required. Upgrade to Essential ($19/mo) for 100 screenings, alerts, and weekly reports.

We monitor 8 major maritime chokepoints with real-time transit detection: Strait of Hormuz, Suez Canal, Strait of Malacca, Panama Canal, Bab el-Mandeb, Turkish Straits, the English Channel, and the Cape of Good Hope. Each includes directional analysis and vessel typing.

Yes. Add vessels to your watchlist and receive email or webhook alerts when they transit chokepoints, go dark (AIS silence), or are involved in STS transfers. Two alerts are always on and cannot be disabled: when a watched vessel gets newly sanctioned, and when a watched vessel conducts an STS transfer with a sanctioned vessel. These are critical compliance events that require immediate attention.

We poll all 9 sanctions lists daily. New designations typically appear within 24 hours of publication by the issuing authority.

Yes. Every screening is timestamped and logged. Professional plans and above can export a full audit trail as CSV with vessel, date, result, and risk score for every screening your team has performed.

Available for Enterprise customers on multi-month commitments. Use cases we support include embedding sanctions screening into booking platforms, KYC/onboarding flows, and internal risk dashboards. Standard rate limit is 1,000 requests/day; higher limits available with contract. Email contact@straitupmaritime.com for technical specs and pricing — we'll get back to you within one business day.

We're used as a screening tool alongside your existing compliance program. We provide informational screening results — not legal determinations. Our Trust & Security page documents our methodology, data sources, update cadences, and security controls for vendor review.

You'll receive an email alert within hours of the designation appearing in our system. Your watchlist shows live sanctions status for all monitored vessels, so any change is immediately visible on your dashboard.