Beyond the Vessel in 2027: Filtering Maritime Risk at Scale, Then Proving It Vessel by Vessel

Description:

Every maritime transaction raises a question screening alone cannot answer: is this vessel safe to work with? A cursory check says nothing about who really controls the ship, how it has behaved over the past twelve months, or what sits behind its ownership chain. But interrogating every vessel in depth is not realistic either, the volume is simply too high.

This session walks through a two-stage approach to that problem. Pole Star Global’s Maritime Transparency Index (MTI) does the filtering: it converts ownership opacity, flag and class churn, AIS behaviour, port call patterns and trading history into a measurable transparency score, letting teams rank an entire counterparty universe and focus attention where it is actually warranted. PurpleTrac then does the depth: structured, regulation-aligned sanctions due diligence on the vessels and entities MTI elevates, producing the evidence and audit trail behind a decision to onboard, escalate, or decline.

Using recent cases, we will show how measurement and diligence work together. How a score becomes an investigation, and how an investigation becomes a defensible record.

For sanctions, compliance, trade finance, insurance and investigative professionals who make vessel-level risk decisions.

Using real case-studies we will:

• Measure: what drives an MTI transparency score up or down, and what a low score actually signals

• Filter: using scores to rank a full vessel and counterparty universe instead of reviewing it ship by ship

• Interrogate: taking an elevated vessel into structured sanctions due diligence in PurpleTrac. This includes ownership, networks, enablers, cargo and voyage history

• Document: producing an audit trail that stands up to regulatory and internal scrutiny

• Operationalize: where each stage sits in an onboarding, chartering, financing or underwriting workflow

Certificate of Attendance:

All active ACSS members will be able to download the certificate from the Learning Management System (under the achievements tab).