Lloyd’s List Intelligence (LLI), the trusted global provider of maritime data and analytics, today announced the launch of its Ownership Intelligence & Cargo Risk solutions within the Seasearcher maritime intelligence platform. This integrated suite goes beyond standard vessel screening to provide unparallelled visibility into complex ownership structures and maritime trade flows.
The launch comes at a pivotal time, as regulators worldwide intensify scrutiny of maritime trade. The April 2025 OFAC guidance, which specifically targets Iranian petroleum shipping chains, underscores the urgent need for enhanced due diligence and transparency across global shipping networks.
Seasearcher Ownership Intelligence & Cargo Risk solutions were built with today’s complex regulatory landscape in mind, and focus on empowering organizations to navigate today’s increasingly complex compliance environment with confidence and precision.
Seasearcher Ownership Intelligence & Cargo Risk offers those with exposure to maritime trade the ability to:
- Uncover multi-level ownership structures to reveal ultimate beneficial owners, exposing hidden beneficiaries behind vessels and companies that conventional screening methods miss
- Automatically apply the OFAC, OFSI, and EU’s 50% ownership rules to identify sanctioned entities, ensuring regulatory compliance through algorithmic enforcement of complex international sanctions criteria
- Trace cargo movements through complex shipping chains, including high-risk ship-to-ship transfers, providing visibility into obscured transportation pathways that frequently enable sanctions evasion
- Detect deceptive shipping practices including AIS manipulation and suspicious trade patterns, alerting users to potential illicit activities that standard vessel monitoring approach fail to identify
- Access comprehensive screening of oil, chemical, LNG, and LPG cargo flows with over 1,000 products/grades covered, delivering commodity intelligence across global maritime supply chains
“In today’s complex maritime compliance landscape, standard vessel screening alone is no longer sufficient,” said Nicky Marlin, Chief Product Officer at Lloyd’s List Intelligence. “Our new solutions represent a step-change in risk visibility by answering two fundamental questions that regulators increasingly demand: who’s truly benefiting and what’s really being transported. By combining deep ownership intelligence and cargo tracking in one platform, we’re eliminating dangerous blind spots and setting a new standard for maritime compliance.”
This breakthrough represents months of intensive development, combining massive volumes of complex, unstructured data with cutting-edge technology and human expertise. LLI’s proprietary SeaTech methodology and COACT data quality framework power this sophisticated staged process—from collating and aggregating data to enhancing intelligence—ensuring hidden risks are surfaced with confidence while freeing thousands of analyst hours.
Seasearcher Ownership Intelligence & Cargo Risk supports critical use cases across maritime industries, including pre-transaction screening, customer onboarding, ongoing monitoring, claims and legal support, and enhanced escalation workflows.
Organizations using the integrated solution can ensure compliance with evolving regulations, reduce risk exposure, improve decision-making with verifiable data, streamline due diligence processes, and protect their reputation by avoiding inadvertent involvement in sanctions violations.
Source: Lloyd’s List Intelligence
