Independent reporting on maritime sanctions and compliance

Sanctions & Compliance Wire covers the rules that shape maritime trade: OFAC, EU and UK sanctions designations and delistings; vessel tracking and AIS spoofing detection; shadow fleet dynamics and the ships that disappear from view; price cap attestations and the documentation chain behind them; enforcement actions, penalties and settlements; and the KYC and due-diligence practice inside commodity banks and trading houses. We write for compliance officers, sanctions lawyers, trade finance teams, shipowners, traders and the regulators who set the rules.

What we publish

Daily reporting, weekly analysis, interviews with practitioners, and dedicated coverage hubs for the companies we follow closely. Every story carries a content label — original reporting, aggregated coverage, press release, contributed or sponsored — so you always know what you are reading.

How we work

Reporting is sourced from named practitioners, official filings, regulator and government data, vessel tracking intelligence, and reputable trade sources. Where a story is built on another publication's work, we say so and link to it in an attribution footnote. We do not publish anonymous allegations about the companies we cover.

Independence

Commercial relationships never determine coverage. Sponsored material is labelled as such, is never written by the newsroom, and never appears as news.