Identifying the Behavioral Patterns of Drug Trafficking Vessels

WINDWARD MASTERCLASS

IDENTIFYING THE BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS OF DRUG TRAFFICKING VESSELS

Join Windward’s counter-narcotics experts for a live operational masterclass. Learn how to identify the behavioral patterns drug trafficking vessels share, and how to build the queries and alerts that detect them.

Thursday, November 12, 2026

10:00 AM ET | 3:00 PM GMT

Virtual

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ABOUT THIS MASTERCLASS

Drug trafficking vessels leave a signature: flags of convenience, recent MMSI changes, and voyages that don’t match legitimate trade. Learn to spot it, and to build the workflows that catch the next one.

THE GLOBAL PICTURE

How maritime trafficking routes, methods, and vessel types have shifted over the years, and where interdiction teams are seeing new activity today.

FROM SIGNATURE TO WORKFLOW

Turning those findings into live queries, flagging vessels that match the profile, and setting up alerts so the pattern is caught in time to act.

THE COMMON SIGNATURE

Flag of convenience, vessel size and type, recent MMSI changes, and the AIS anomalies that recur across seizures.

INSIDE THE SEIZURES

A former DEA operator walks through cases he worked, including an 18-ton hashish seizure off Morocco that began with Windward intelligence.

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OUR SPEAKERS

Manuel M.B. Assis Teixeira

MIOC Maritime Counter-Narcotics Intelligence Analyst

Windward

John Schrock

Customer Success Manager

Windward / Former DEA

Noam Rabinovich

Director of Product Marketing

Windward

Manuel M.B. Assis Teixeira

MIOC Maritime Counter-Narcotics Intelligence Analyst

Windward

John Schrock

Customer Success Manager

Windward / Former DEA

Noam Rabinovich

Director of Product Marketing

Windward

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