The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued sweeping sanctions against over 180 vessels and 170 companies connected to Russian energy exports, shadow fleet operations, maritime insurance, and oilfield services. These actions are part of a broader effort to disrupt Russia’s revenue streams and target networks that enable sanctions evasion. The implications...
Taiwanese authorities have accused a Chinese freighter of cutting a subsea communications cable just off the coast of Keelung on January 3, 2025. This latest critical underwater infrastructure incident, following three relatively recent underwater infrastructure disruptions in the Baltic Sea, is murky and involves identity tampering. Four seemingly different vessels, with different names, IMOs, MMSIs,...
Generate Business Intelligence Insights with Maritime AI™
Bunker traders, shipowners, financial institutions, and insurers can make smarter decisions, unlock new business opportunities, and stay ahead of the competition with Windward’s:
Unlock New Business with Integrated Maritime AI™ Insights
Choose the exact insights you need from our extensive API Insights Catalog to generate new business intelligence, discover new opportunities, and grow your business:
Trading Insight APIs
discover trading anomalies, build your own trade and risk models and create advanced search queries for Windward activities
Ports APIs
identify which ports to visit and when
Bunkering APIs
track incoming vessels to your ports and areas of interest, find new bunkering hot spots, and monitor competitive/lost business vessels
Vessel Flows & Activities APIs
receive insights on cargo flows and vessel balance
Define customized queries and automated alerts for new business opportunities before they approach your ports and areas of interest, including:
Vessels owned by companies you worked with in the past
Vessels under fixed term deals
Vessels new to the area and/or visiting there for the first time
Explore market share
Deep-Dive into the Competitive Landscape
Analyze ports of operations and areas of interest with AI-driven insights to better understand your competitive landscape, with alerts and details on:
Company-specific meetings
Lost-business vessels approaching your area
Duration, location and meeting stakeholders for every relevant bunkering operation
Identify hot spots
Grow your Business Potential by Identifying Global Trends
Monitor trading patterns and integrate data to build your own trade models. Easily identify new bunkering global hotspots through:
Cargo flows and vessel balance
Trading anomalies identification
Movement monitoring to and from ports and areas of interest
How Maritime AI™ Drives Business Growth
Windward Maritime AI™ combines accurate data and unmatched contextual visibility to deliver industry-best business insights into the maritime domain:
Trading patterns monitoring
with quick identification of new global bunkering hot spots
Operational asset prioritization
by analyzing trends in types and volume of vessels, and locations to and from ports of interest
Smart strategic planning
with flexible search capabilitiesto find exactly what your organization is looking for, in the most relevant areas and timeframes
Sanctions compliance risk protection
with insights on past behavioral patterns, origin of cargo, and go/no-go risk recommendations (*Available through an additional risk package)
How Would You Like Your Maritime AI™ Insights?
Online Application
Flag and investigate high-risk vessels in real-time
Reporting services
Decision-ready and customized alerts delivered to your inbox
API
Integrate Windward’s insights and recommendations directly into your systems
Leading organizations choose Windward
Windward stood out as the clear best in class solution to provide us with a thorough and accurate view of maritime risk. Their advanced technology, comprehensive data coverage, and robust analytics capabilities empower our risk functions to make prudent, accurate decisions to rapidly support our global commercial teams.
Alex JametGeneral Counsel
ArrayArray
We have partnered with Windward for a number of years, collaborating closely to develop and expand (the business with) their advanced technology, in order to build a robust and dynamic international sanctions risk approach and implement specific compliance controls for the product phases.
Livio RussoGroup Head of Financial Crime Compliance