Risk & Compliance

Risk & Compliance

Screen with context. Investigate with evidence. Identify risk earlier.

Connected maritime intelligence for KYC, sanctions compliance, predictive sanctions risk and geographic risk exposure. Marine Benchmark combines trusted vessel and stakeholder reference data with its own activity, voyage, trade, geographic and behavioural intelligence.

In This Domain

A Snapshot of What We Offer

Sanctions · OFAC · EU Sanctions · UK/OFSI · Risk Rating · Shadow Fleet · AIS Gaps · AIS Spoofing · STS Activity · War Zones · Geographic Risk · Ownership Risk · Compliance Screening · Risk Exposure

Risk is much more than a sanctions list

Connect vessel identity and ownership with deeper maritime activity.

Maritime compliance decisions depend on knowing both who is behind a vessel and what that vessel has actually been doing. Ownership and sanctions status matter, but so do voyages, port calls, ship-to-ship activity, geographic exposure, operational behaviour and changes through time.

Marine Benchmark brings these dimensions together in one connected data environment. Analysts can move from a vessel or company to ownership history, sanctions, activity and voyage evidence, geographic exposure and monitoring without reconstructing maritime context from separate datasets.

Four connected capabilities

From counterparty screening and investigation to future sanctions risk and measured geographic exposure.

Maritime KYC & Compliance

Know who you are dealing with and what they have actually been doing.

Move from initial vessel or company screening to deeper maritime due diligence using a connected history of stakeholders, voyages and operational activity.

Marine Benchmark's vessel and stakeholder reference layer uses trusted industry sources, including S&P Global data for vessel register and ownership history. Marine Benchmark connects this reference information with its own activity, voyage, trade, geographic and analytical intelligence.

Predicted Sanctions Risk

Identify the cases that matter and avoid false positives.

Sanctions lists describe known risk. Marine Benchmark combines maritime behaviour, stakeholder relationships, trading patterns, geographic activity and historical sanctions patterns to detect relevant signals and predict future sanctions risk before official designation.

Inputs can include changes in ownership and operating relationships, trading patterns, port and geographic activity, STS behaviour, AIS and operational signals, counterparty relationships and historical sanctions patterns.

The objective is not to flag more vessels. It is to identify the right high-risk cases while keeping unnecessary Medium Risk classifications low - reducing manual review, delays and commercial friction for legitimate business.

Known sanctions and connections → underlying risk signals → Predicted Sanctions Risk → Few false positives

Sanctions screening for maritime services and supply chains

Identify genuine sanctions risk without creating unnecessary commercial friction.

Sanctions compliance now extends across the maritime service chain. Shipyards, equipment manufacturers, repair and maintenance providers, bunker suppliers and other maritime service companies need to assess not only current sanctions status, but ownership and control, trading activity, geographic exposure and changes in risk over time.

The challenge is not simply identifying risk. It is identifying the right risk. Broad screening models can generate large populations of false positives and Medium Risk cases, forcing compliance teams into unnecessary investigation while delaying or preventing legitimate vessels and counterparties from buying equipment, entering yards or receiving essential services.

Marine Benchmark combines sanctions and stakeholder information with actual maritime activity, trading patterns, geographic exposure and behavioural intelligence to support more precise risk decisions — helping organisations identify genuinely high-risk business without unnecessarily stopping good business.

War & Geographic Risk Exposure

Measure actual exposure not just whether a vessel crossed a risk boundary.

Marine Benchmark connects vessel activity with time-aware war and geographic risk areas to measure when exposure occurred, how long it lasted and how it accumulated over time.

Historical risk-area definitions are maintained back to 2012, allowing past exposure to be reconstructed against the geography that actually applied at the time rather than retrospectively applying today's boundaries to historical vessel activity.

Vessel activity → Voyage exposure → Accumulated exposure → Fleet → Portfolio

This creates a consistent measure of exposure from an individual vessel or voyage to an entire fleet or portfolios. It supports current monitoring, historical portfolio analysis, underwriting and claims assessment, and other decisions where the timing, duration and accumulation of actual exposure matter.

Policy expertise built into the data

Translate complex rules and changing risk geography into usable maritime data.

Maritime regulation is rarely just a list. Turning policy into usable data requires understanding which vessels, stakeholders, activities, geographies and time periods a rule actually covers - and how those definitions change through time.

Marine Benchmark combines maritime data expertise with deep policy and regulatory knowledge to interpret complex requirements and translate them into consistent, analysis-ready data. This includes sanctions regimes, ownership and control, maritime service restrictions, risk geographies and historical changes in applicable rules.

Marine Benchmark provides maritime data and risk intelligence; legal interpretation of a customer's specific obligations remains with the customer and its legal or compliance advisers.

Built for connected maritime risk analysis

Long history, traceable evidence and consistent intelligence across vessels, voyages, stakeholders and geography.

Built to be consumed

One intelligence foundation. Multiple ways to consume it. Use Marine Benchmark in the form that fits the decision, system or model.

The same underlying data and methodology is available across Marine Benchmark applications, research, APIs, cloud environments, embedded visual objects and AI interfaces. Delivery methods can be combined, allowing users to replace or modernise existing workflows without changing the underlying intelligence foundation.

Built on the same Marine Benchmark data environment

Risk & Compliance benefits from the same 17+ year history, common vessel and geographic structures, traceability and ability to reprocess historical intelligence as the wider Marine Benchmark platform.

Contact us for better maritime risk decisions

Use Marine Benchmark for maritime KYC, sanctions screening, predictive risk and geographic exposure.

Talk to Marine Benchmark about maritime KYC, sanctions screening, Predicted Sanctions Risk, service and supplier compliance, or historical and current geographic risk exposure.

Screen with context. Investigate with evidence. Predict with confidence.