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Maritime compliance software for the ship and everyone behind it.
Maritime compliance software has to answer two questions before a fixture: is the vessel clean, and is everyone around it clean, from the registered owner and the manager to the charterer you actually sign with. KYCK screens the vessel by IMO number and the companies around it in one pass, and keeps the evidence your bank, insurer or auditor will ask for.
LAST UPDATED OCT 2026
The hull, by IMO number
Names change and repeat; the IMO number does not. KYCK checks the vessel by IMO number against sanctions designations, including OFAC, EU and UK, and reads its flag and name history, where changes tend to cluster around designation events.
The single-ship company is not the owner
Registered owners are often single-ship companies. KYCK screens the registered owner, the beneficial owner and the ISM manager as entities, with their own people behind them, because a vessel can look clean while the company that controls it is not.
The counterparty you sign with
The charterer, owner or broker on the other side of the fixture gets a full KYB check: registration, ownership to the beneficial owners, and sanctions, PEP and adverse media screening, collected through a portal instead of an email chain.
P&I and the paper trail
Recent designation waves have targeted insurers as well as hulls, so P&I cover is read as a signal. Every check is timestamped and exportable, so a question from a bank or insurer months later is an export, not a reconstruction.
Who it is built for
The shadow fleet problem
The shadow fleet is the population of tankers and bulkers moving sanctioned cargo under obscured ownership: ageing hulls, frequent reflagging and renaming, and shell-company owners. Our analysis of the largest vessel designation wave and of price-cap enforcement shifting to insurers covers what changed, and why a vessel's paperwork is not its ownership covers what to check.
Frequently asked questions
What is maritime compliance software?
Software that checks the sanctions and financial crime risk around a shipping deal: the vessel by IMO number, the companies that own, manage and operate it, and the counterparty you contract with, with an evidence trail of every check.
Why screen the owner and not just the vessel?
Because designations often target the companies and people behind a fleet rather than individual hulls. A vessel with a clean record can still be controlled by a designated owner, and dealing with it can expose you just the same.
Do I need the IMO number?
Yes. The IMO number is the permanent identifier of a ship, while names change and repeat. A counterparty that is reluctant to give the IMO number is telling you something.
Can KYCK screen the charterer and the vessel together?
Yes. The vessel, its ownership chain and the contracting counterparty are screened together, and the results sit in one file with a timestamp for each check.
Bring a vessel and a counterparty to the demo.
We screen both in front of you, and you keep the evidence.