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Greek-owned tankers just hit their lowest participation in Russian crude since the invasion of Ukraine, lifting only 3 of 65 early-November cargoes.
With U.S. sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil taking effect Nov 21, pressure is building.
Full analysis: windward.ai/blog/greece-...
With U.S. sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil taking effect Nov 21, pressure is building.
Full analysis: windward.ai/blog/greece-...
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Greek-owned tankers just hit their lowest participation in Russian crude since the invasion of Ukraine, lifting only 3 of 65 early-November cargoes.
With U.S. sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil taking effect Nov 21, pressure is building.
Full analysis: windward.ai/blog/greece-...
With U.S. sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil taking effect Nov 21, pressure is building.
Full analysis: windward.ai/blog/greece-...
🚢 Windward’s #ShipoftheDay: Antlia (IMO 9381744).
A founding member of the Russia dark fleet. One of the first tankers ever sanctioned for violating the G7 Oil Price Cap. And now, loitering in Venezuela. 🇻🇪👇
A founding member of the Russia dark fleet. One of the first tankers ever sanctioned for violating the G7 Oil Price Cap. And now, loitering in Venezuela. 🇻🇪👇
November 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
🚢 Windward’s #ShipoftheDay: Antlia (IMO 9381744).
A founding member of the Russia dark fleet. One of the first tankers ever sanctioned for violating the G7 Oil Price Cap. And now, loitering in Venezuela. 🇻🇪👇
A founding member of the Russia dark fleet. One of the first tankers ever sanctioned for violating the G7 Oil Price Cap. And now, loitering in Venezuela. 🇻🇪👇
IUU (Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated) fishing doesn't just damage marine ecosystems. It creates severe sanctions exposure, reputational risk, and operational blind spots for governments, traders, and insurers.
See how behavioral intelligence is changing the game for maritime compliance.
See how behavioral intelligence is changing the game for maritime compliance.
November 18, 2025 at 8:29 AM
IUU (Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated) fishing doesn't just damage marine ecosystems. It creates severe sanctions exposure, reputational risk, and operational blind spots for governments, traders, and insurers.
See how behavioral intelligence is changing the game for maritime compliance.
See how behavioral intelligence is changing the game for maritime compliance.
Windward data shows six sanctioned Russia-linked tankers signaling at berth in Duqm, Oman, as deceptive shipping activity in the area rises and buyers in India and China reassess oil purchases.
See what this emerging pattern may signal in the weeks ahead: windward.ai/blog/sanctio...
See what this emerging pattern may signal in the weeks ahead: windward.ai/blog/sanctio...
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Windward data shows six sanctioned Russia-linked tankers signaling at berth in Duqm, Oman, as deceptive shipping activity in the area rises and buyers in India and China reassess oil purchases.
See what this emerging pattern may signal in the weeks ahead: windward.ai/blog/sanctio...
See what this emerging pattern may signal in the weeks ahead: windward.ai/blog/sanctio...
EO imagery gives clear visual confirmation of STS transfers, port activity, and vessel identity.
Integrated with SAR, RF, and behavioral analytics in Windward’s Remote Sensing Intelligence, it turns data into verified awareness. Learn how: windward.ai/blog/electro...
Integrated with SAR, RF, and behavioral analytics in Windward’s Remote Sensing Intelligence, it turns data into verified awareness. Learn how: windward.ai/blog/electro...
November 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
EO imagery gives clear visual confirmation of STS transfers, port activity, and vessel identity.
Integrated with SAR, RF, and behavioral analytics in Windward’s Remote Sensing Intelligence, it turns data into verified awareness. Learn how: windward.ai/blog/electro...
Integrated with SAR, RF, and behavioral analytics in Windward’s Remote Sensing Intelligence, it turns data into verified awareness. Learn how: windward.ai/blog/electro...
🚢 Windward’s #ShipoftheDay: Perle (IMO 9630028).
Their paths may not have crossed via AIS but the sanctioned LNG carrier, Perle, undertook a headline-grabbing, dark STS transfer with another LNG carrier last month.
The transfer shows how Russia is adapting to protect its energy revenue. 🧵👇
Their paths may not have crossed via AIS but the sanctioned LNG carrier, Perle, undertook a headline-grabbing, dark STS transfer with another LNG carrier last month.
The transfer shows how Russia is adapting to protect its energy revenue. 🧵👇
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
🚢 Windward’s #ShipoftheDay: Perle (IMO 9630028).
Their paths may not have crossed via AIS but the sanctioned LNG carrier, Perle, undertook a headline-grabbing, dark STS transfer with another LNG carrier last month.
The transfer shows how Russia is adapting to protect its energy revenue. 🧵👇
Their paths may not have crossed via AIS but the sanctioned LNG carrier, Perle, undertook a headline-grabbing, dark STS transfer with another LNG carrier last month.
The transfer shows how Russia is adapting to protect its energy revenue. 🧵👇
🚢 Windward’s #ShipoftheDay: Meda (IMO 8818219).
A new dark fleet record. The US-sanctioned LPG carrier Meda has changed its flag three times in one week, ending with one never seen before. 🧵👇
A new dark fleet record. The US-sanctioned LPG carrier Meda has changed its flag three times in one week, ending with one never seen before. 🧵👇
November 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
🚢 Windward’s #ShipoftheDay: Meda (IMO 8818219).
A new dark fleet record. The US-sanctioned LPG carrier Meda has changed its flag three times in one week, ending with one never seen before. 🧵👇
A new dark fleet record. The US-sanctioned LPG carrier Meda has changed its flag three times in one week, ending with one never seen before. 🧵👇
Tariffs are shifting overnight and so are the tactics to evade them.
Former CBP COO Blas Nuñez-Neto joins TradeSense to explore how data, automation, and AI are helping enforcement teams stay ahead of illicit trade.
🎥 Watch: windward.ai/knowledge-ba...
Former CBP COO Blas Nuñez-Neto joins TradeSense to explore how data, automation, and AI are helping enforcement teams stay ahead of illicit trade.
🎥 Watch: windward.ai/knowledge-ba...
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Tariffs are shifting overnight and so are the tactics to evade them.
Former CBP COO Blas Nuñez-Neto joins TradeSense to explore how data, automation, and AI are helping enforcement teams stay ahead of illicit trade.
🎥 Watch: windward.ai/knowledge-ba...
Former CBP COO Blas Nuñez-Neto joins TradeSense to explore how data, automation, and AI are helping enforcement teams stay ahead of illicit trade.
🎥 Watch: windward.ai/knowledge-ba...
🚢 Windward’s #ShipoftheDay: Lion 1 (IMO 9384069).
Few dark fleet stories move this fast. In just five months, Lion 1 went from new owner to sanctioned tanker. 🧵👇
Few dark fleet stories move this fast. In just five months, Lion 1 went from new owner to sanctioned tanker. 🧵👇
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🚢 Windward’s #ShipoftheDay: Lion 1 (IMO 9384069).
Few dark fleet stories move this fast. In just five months, Lion 1 went from new owner to sanctioned tanker. 🧵👇
Few dark fleet stories move this fast. In just five months, Lion 1 went from new owner to sanctioned tanker. 🧵👇
Sanctions, dark flows, and enforcement gaps are reshaping the maritime ecosystem fast.
Join @michellewb.bsky.social and Windward’s experts for a live briefing series to help you anticipate risk and stay ahead of what's next. windward.ai/opening-2026...
Join @michellewb.bsky.social and Windward’s experts for a live briefing series to help you anticipate risk and stay ahead of what's next. windward.ai/opening-2026...
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Sanctions, dark flows, and enforcement gaps are reshaping the maritime ecosystem fast.
Join @michellewb.bsky.social and Windward’s experts for a live briefing series to help you anticipate risk and stay ahead of what's next. windward.ai/opening-2026...
Join @michellewb.bsky.social and Windward’s experts for a live briefing series to help you anticipate risk and stay ahead of what's next. windward.ai/opening-2026...
8. This satellite SAR image confirms only a handful of real vessels were actually present, and serves as the ultimate proof that this was a mass AIS interference event.
November 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
8. This satellite SAR image confirms only a handful of real vessels were actually present, and serves as the ultimate proof that this was a mass AIS interference event.
3. These “vessels” suddenly populated the Finnish Gulf, with no names, IMO numbers, or movement tracks, before disappearing around 1140 UTC.
November 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
3. These “vessels” suddenly populated the Finnish Gulf, with no names, IMO numbers, or movement tracks, before disappearing around 1140 UTC.
🚨 Unusual AIS Activity Detected in the Baltic Sea
At 1109 UTC on Nov 2, a mass AIS interference event appears to have taken place across the central Baltic Sea, stretching from Bornholm to the Gulf of Finland.
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At 1109 UTC on Nov 2, a mass AIS interference event appears to have taken place across the central Baltic Sea, stretching from Bornholm to the Gulf of Finland.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🚨 Unusual AIS Activity Detected in the Baltic Sea
At 1109 UTC on Nov 2, a mass AIS interference event appears to have taken place across the central Baltic Sea, stretching from Bornholm to the Gulf of Finland.
🧵👇
At 1109 UTC on Nov 2, a mass AIS interference event appears to have taken place across the central Baltic Sea, stretching from Bornholm to the Gulf of Finland.
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Russia’s shadow fleet is hitting record levels of deception.
Windward’s latest data, featured in @telegraphnews.bsky.social, reveals a 510% surge in GPS jamming and a sharp rise in false flags as new U.S. sanctions close in on Moscow’s oil trade.
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Windward’s latest data, featured in @telegraphnews.bsky.social, reveals a 510% surge in GPS jamming and a sharp rise in false flags as new U.S. sanctions close in on Moscow’s oil trade.
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
November 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Russia’s shadow fleet is hitting record levels of deception.
Windward’s latest data, featured in @telegraphnews.bsky.social, reveals a 510% surge in GPS jamming and a sharp rise in false flags as new U.S. sanctions close in on Moscow’s oil trade.
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Windward’s latest data, featured in @telegraphnews.bsky.social, reveals a 510% surge in GPS jamming and a sharp rise in false flags as new U.S. sanctions close in on Moscow’s oil trade.
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
5. Instead, Alor 2 sailed to China directly after being listed by OFAC, its first voyage there in nearly three years. It then sailed to Oman, entering territorial waters on Oct 8, with its AIS showing the irregular patterns that indicate it was spoofing its location.
October 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
5. Instead, Alor 2 sailed to China directly after being listed by OFAC, its first voyage there in nearly three years. It then sailed to Oman, entering territorial waters on Oct 8, with its AIS showing the irregular patterns that indicate it was spoofing its location.
🚢 Windward’s #ShipoftheDay: Alor 2 (IMO 9228538).
The “dark fleet” is no longer just about tankers and gas carriers. Containership, Alor 2, is part of a new genre. 🧵👇
The “dark fleet” is no longer just about tankers and gas carriers. Containership, Alor 2, is part of a new genre. 🧵👇
October 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
🚢 Windward’s #ShipoftheDay: Alor 2 (IMO 9228538).
The “dark fleet” is no longer just about tankers and gas carriers. Containership, Alor 2, is part of a new genre. 🧵👇
The “dark fleet” is no longer just about tankers and gas carriers. Containership, Alor 2, is part of a new genre. 🧵👇
🚢 Windward’s #ShipoftheDay: Komander (IMO 9271585).
A Russia-flagged suezmax tanker captured headlines for all the wrong reasons when it ran aground in the Suez Canal, blocking northbound traffic for several hours.🧵👇
A Russia-flagged suezmax tanker captured headlines for all the wrong reasons when it ran aground in the Suez Canal, blocking northbound traffic for several hours.🧵👇
October 29, 2025 at 7:11 AM
🚢 Windward’s #ShipoftheDay: Komander (IMO 9271585).
A Russia-flagged suezmax tanker captured headlines for all the wrong reasons when it ran aground in the Suez Canal, blocking northbound traffic for several hours.🧵👇
A Russia-flagged suezmax tanker captured headlines for all the wrong reasons when it ran aground in the Suez Canal, blocking northbound traffic for several hours.🧵👇
New sanctions on Rosneft & Lukoil are reshaping global trade and energy flows faster than expected.
Oct 30, join experts from WindwardAI, Stena Bulk, Sanctions SOS & former OFAC leadership for a live briefing on dark fleets, evasion tactics, and guidance for what’s next. go.wnwd.com/sanctions-on...
Oct 30, join experts from WindwardAI, Stena Bulk, Sanctions SOS & former OFAC leadership for a live briefing on dark fleets, evasion tactics, and guidance for what’s next. go.wnwd.com/sanctions-on...
October 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
New sanctions on Rosneft & Lukoil are reshaping global trade and energy flows faster than expected.
Oct 30, join experts from WindwardAI, Stena Bulk, Sanctions SOS & former OFAC leadership for a live briefing on dark fleets, evasion tactics, and guidance for what’s next. go.wnwd.com/sanctions-on...
Oct 30, join experts from WindwardAI, Stena Bulk, Sanctions SOS & former OFAC leadership for a live briefing on dark fleets, evasion tactics, and guidance for what’s next. go.wnwd.com/sanctions-on...
More than 50 Iran-flagged tankers, including NITC VLCCs off Malaysia’s coast, briefly switched their AIS on for three days before going dark again.
Windward’s Early Detection solution tracked this rare surge in visibility, exposing coordinated dark fleet behavior: windward.ai/blog/iran-fl...
Windward’s Early Detection solution tracked this rare surge in visibility, exposing coordinated dark fleet behavior: windward.ai/blog/iran-fl...
October 23, 2025 at 8:42 AM
More than 50 Iran-flagged tankers, including NITC VLCCs off Malaysia’s coast, briefly switched their AIS on for three days before going dark again.
Windward’s Early Detection solution tracked this rare surge in visibility, exposing coordinated dark fleet behavior: windward.ai/blog/iran-fl...
Windward’s Early Detection solution tracked this rare surge in visibility, exposing coordinated dark fleet behavior: windward.ai/blog/iran-fl...
What’s really behind the dark fleet?
Hear Windward's @michellewb.bsky.social on Pod Save the World explain its risks and reach.
🎧 Tune in from 1:10:00 → youtu.be/Z2GQx303Wrc?...
Hear Windward's @michellewb.bsky.social on Pod Save the World explain its risks and reach.
🎧 Tune in from 1:10:00 → youtu.be/Z2GQx303Wrc?...
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
What’s really behind the dark fleet?
Hear Windward's @michellewb.bsky.social on Pod Save the World explain its risks and reach.
🎧 Tune in from 1:10:00 → youtu.be/Z2GQx303Wrc?...
Hear Windward's @michellewb.bsky.social on Pod Save the World explain its risks and reach.
🎧 Tune in from 1:10:00 → youtu.be/Z2GQx303Wrc?...
Gambia’s shipping registry grew 1,038% in a year flagging dozens of sanctioned and high-risk tankers.
Windward’s analysis shows how small states are becoming the new havens for sanctions evasion.
go.wnwd.com/inside-the-d...
Windward’s analysis shows how small states are becoming the new havens for sanctions evasion.
go.wnwd.com/inside-the-d...
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Gambia’s shipping registry grew 1,038% in a year flagging dozens of sanctioned and high-risk tankers.
Windward’s analysis shows how small states are becoming the new havens for sanctions evasion.
go.wnwd.com/inside-the-d...
Windward’s analysis shows how small states are becoming the new havens for sanctions evasion.
go.wnwd.com/inside-the-d...
6.📍Windward tracked Clean Vision conducting a ship-to-ship transfer with another, formerly sanctioned LNG carrier off Murmansk on March 30–31, 2025 — just days after the EU’s ban on LNG transshipments.
finance.ec.europa.eu/publications...
finance.ec.europa.eu/publications...
October 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
6.📍Windward tracked Clean Vision conducting a ship-to-ship transfer with another, formerly sanctioned LNG carrier off Murmansk on March 30–31, 2025 — just days after the EU’s ban on LNG transshipments.
finance.ec.europa.eu/publications...
finance.ec.europa.eu/publications...
🚢 Windward's #ShipoftheDay: Clean Vision (IMO 9655456).
Among the 51 vessels sanctioned by the UK last week were seven LNG carriers, including Clean Vision, a Malta-flagged ship now caught in the expanding sanctions net. 🧵👇
Among the 51 vessels sanctioned by the UK last week were seven LNG carriers, including Clean Vision, a Malta-flagged ship now caught in the expanding sanctions net. 🧵👇
October 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
🚢 Windward's #ShipoftheDay: Clean Vision (IMO 9655456).
Among the 51 vessels sanctioned by the UK last week were seven LNG carriers, including Clean Vision, a Malta-flagged ship now caught in the expanding sanctions net. 🧵👇
Among the 51 vessels sanctioned by the UK last week were seven LNG carriers, including Clean Vision, a Malta-flagged ship now caught in the expanding sanctions net. 🧵👇
🚢 Windward's Ship of the Day: Satna (IMO 9253234).
A textbook case of how the dark fleet is bypassing sanctions, and even enforcement, at one of the world’s busiest maritime chokepoints: the Bosporus Strait.
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A textbook case of how the dark fleet is bypassing sanctions, and even enforcement, at one of the world’s busiest maritime chokepoints: the Bosporus Strait.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
🚢 Windward's Ship of the Day: Satna (IMO 9253234).
A textbook case of how the dark fleet is bypassing sanctions, and even enforcement, at one of the world’s busiest maritime chokepoints: the Bosporus Strait.
🧵👇
A textbook case of how the dark fleet is bypassing sanctions, and even enforcement, at one of the world’s busiest maritime chokepoints: the Bosporus Strait.
🧵👇
Windward’s new WhatsApp integration brings Maritime AI™ risk insights straight into chat for instant vessel risk summaries.
See how it works: windward.ai/blog/windwar...
See how it works: windward.ai/blog/windwar...
October 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Windward’s new WhatsApp integration brings Maritime AI™ risk insights straight into chat for instant vessel risk summaries.
See how it works: windward.ai/blog/windwar...
See how it works: windward.ai/blog/windwar...