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Maritime Smuggling Vessel Track

A cargo vessel stops transmitting for six hours in a busy shipping lane. When it reappears, its reported course does not explain what radar and satellite observations suggest happened at sea. Reconstructing the gap may reveal a rendezvous—and ownership records may reveal who actually stands behind the vessel.

Capabilities

Aerial & Satellite Imagery Corporate Registries Entity Resolution Geospatial Mapping Maritime & AIS Multi-Source Fusion Network & Link Analysis Public & Government Records

Overview

A vessel that stops reporting has not necessarily stopped moving. The most important activity may occur inside the reporting gap, where a straight line between the last and next position can conceal a diversion or ship-to-ship encounter. Understanding the event also requires looking beyond the registered owner to the managers, charterers and corporate layers around the vessel.

CoAnalyst360 lets analysts examine movement and ownership together. Position history can be compared with available radar or satellite observations to reconstruct likely movement and identify nearby vessels during the gap. Corporate and maritime records can then add ownership and management context, giving investigators a reviewable picture of both the vessel’s behavior and the parties connected to it.

Vessel Track Board
Vessel Track Board — Summary
Vessel Track Board — Track Map
Vessel Track Board — Ownership

Key features

  • Maritime record consolidation Pull flag history, registered owner, manager, charterer and port-call history into a single vessel record instead of a dozen separate register lookups.
  • Reporting-gap detection Identify signal-loss windows in position history and characterize them against the vessel's own normal reporting behavior.
  • Multi-source track reconstruction Fuse AIS with satellite and radar observation to reconstruct the track across a gap, rather than interpolating a straight line through it.
  • Rendezvous detection Identify vessels co-loitering inside the gap window, turning an unexplained absence into an observed ship-to-ship encounter.
  • Ownership layer tracing Trace registered owner, manager and charterer through the shell layers that conventionally separate a hull from its controller.
  • Beneficial-ownership assessment Resolve common directorships and address reuse into a supported view of the underlying interest, so enforcement has a party to attach to rather than a registration.

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