Strelux resolves the vessel to its IMO, then checks every name it has ever sailed under against OFAC, EU, UN, UK, and Swiss SECO.
Vessel sanctions screening that resolves every prior name to its IMO number.
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A vessel gets sanctioned under one name. Eight weeks later it sails under a new one. Your screening tool checks the new name against today's lists and returns clean. The hull, the crew, the ownership chain, the designation. All still there. You cleared it anyway.
The sanctions list was updated. The vessel's name was not. Your analyst searches the current name in good faith and finds nothing. The OFAC entry is sitting there under the prior name, one record over, and nobody is looking at it.
One hull. Three sanctioning authorities. Two programs. A flag state now listed as "Unknown." Your single-list check returns a result that is technically accurate and operationally useless. The analyst signs off. The exposure is real.
Built for the people who sign off on the vessel.
Commodity Trading
A compliance analyst at a commodity trading firm clearing charters on a deadline.
“The charter leaves at 06:00. The screening has to be defensible by 05:45.”
Banking
A sanctions officer at a European bank screening vessel-backed trade finance deals.
“Every letter of credit is a vessel. Every vessel is a file we have to sign.”
Marine Insurance
An underwriter at a marine insurer binding hull and cargo cover on routes that touch sanctioned regions.
“We bind the cover, then we learn what we just covered. That is the wrong order.”
Three steps. One evidence file.
Enter an IMO number or a vessel name. If you have a name, Strelux resolves it to an IMO before it does anything else.
Strelux pulls every prior name, every prior flag, every registered owner and manager. Then it runs the full history against OFAC, EU, UN, UK, and Swiss SECO.
You get a single evidence file. Every hit, every source, every date, every URL. Paste it into your case file and close the ticket.
Enter an IMO number or a vessel name. If you have a name, Strelux resolves it to an IMO before it does anything else.
Strelux pulls every prior name, every prior flag, every registered owner and manager. Then it runs the full history against OFAC, EU, UN, UK, and Swiss SECO.
You get a single evidence file. Every hit, every source, every date, every URL. Paste it into your case file and close the ticket.
Three vessels. Three failures. All three were sailing this quarter.
Failure modeRename evasion after sanctions designation.
Current status: underway using engine, reported destination Rotterdam (NL RTM), 9.8 kn at course 355° As of 2026-04-22 13:07 UTC
What a name check on “FINEX” returns: clean.
Failure modeOFAC entry under prior name; current name returns clean.
Current status: at anchor near the Strait of Hormuz, 0.1 kn at course 194°, reported destination: for order As of 2026-04-23 13:10 local (UTC+3:30)
What a name check on “RICH STARRY” returns: clean.
Failure modeTwo sanctioning regimes, two programs, one hull, now reflagged.
Current status: at anchor, reported destination TBA, 0 kn at course 67° (true heading 98°), currently flying the German flag As of 2026-04-23 10:48 local (UTC+1)
What a name check on “EVENTIN” returns: a partial hit or a contradiction, depending on which list you picked.
Send a challenge
We will run the full evidence chain and send it back inside one business day. Available for compliance teams, banks, insurers, and traders evaluating Strelux.
Strelux does one job. Here is where it fits, and where to use something else.
That is the question Strelux was built for. Current name, prior names, every flag, every owner, every sanctions program, every primary source. In one file. Auditable.
Use a Maritime Domain Awareness platform. They process hundreds of millions of AIS messages a day and that is what they are for. Strelux does not do this and does not claim to. Once a vessel goes dark, though, you still need to know what it actually is when it surfaces. That is a different question.
Use a predictive analytics platform. They will tell you what a vessel is likely to become. Strelux tells you what a vessel already is, with a source URL next to every claim. Different job. Often a complementary one.
Maritime sanctions tools are quoted annually. Strelux follows that standard. What's different is what's included. Full evidence files, every primary source cited, no per-screening surcharges, no gotcha pricing on data volume. One scope, one number, renews annually.
Tier 1
Screening
For teams clearing individual vessels on a deadline.
Tier 2
Intelligence
For teams assessing ongoing portfolio risk.
Tier 3
Enterprise
For institutions managing category-level sanctions exposure.
Every claim in an evidence file is traceable. Here is what we read.
OFAC SDN and consolidated sanctions lists((United States))
Equasis(vessel registry, name history, flag history, ownership)
Panama Maritime Authority(flag registry and deregistration records)
Marshall Islands flag registry(where accessible)
Liberia flag registry(where accessible)
We would rather tell you this up front than sell you around it.
Sanctions lists are refreshed every 24 hours. Vessel registry and flag history are refreshed weekly. Every evidence file includes the exact timestamp of the data that produced it.
No. That is deliberate. Strelux is a batch resolution platform. If you need continuous monitoring with push alerts the moment a vessel enters a sanctioned port, that is a different product category. We will name the tool.
Yes. The evidence file includes a primary-source URL for every flagged item, with the date the source was checked. That is the product.
Yes, on the Intelligence and Enterprise tiers. The API returns the same evidence file format as the UI, PDF and JSON, so the integration into your case management workflow is direct. Screening tier customers get the evidence file as a PDF and JSON download.
Sanctions lists from the United States, European Union, United Nations, United Kingdom, and Switzerland. Vessel registries covered are listed above.
Production runs on Google Cloud Frankfurt. All data stays in the European Economic Area. TLS 1.3 in transit, AES-256 at rest. Full details, including our DPA, sub-processor list, and incident response policy, are in the data handling section above.
No. Strelux is vessel-first. If you need to screen a counterparty company against sanctions, use a KYB tool. If the counterparty is a vessel owner or manager linked through an IMO, we will surface it.
Different jobs. Those platforms monitor fleets continuously and score behavior. Strelux produces a sourced, defensible answer on a single vessel when you need to clear a deal today. Many teams use both.
Onboarding takes 2 to 4 weeks. That covers contract review, DPA execution, data access provisioning, and analyst training. We've seen this run faster when procurement is pre-approved on the customer side.
Strelux resolves names to IMOs as Step 1. Submit the name; the resolution and the screen happen in the same call.
No. Maritime sanctions screening is contractual by nature. Audit evidence files need a signed contract behind them. We do offer paid pilot engagements for qualifying teams, scoped to a defined evaluation period with clear success criteria.
One last ask
Send us a vessel your current tool already cleared. We will run the full evidence chain and send it back inside one business day. Compliance teams, banks, insurers, traders.
