SANCTIONS · OWNERSHIP · TRADING HISTORY
Know Who Controls the Vessel,Before You Commit.
Before you fix, finance or acquire, you need to know who controls the vessel, where it has traded, and whether its identity holds up against the record. SolarisTech assembles that picture from technical and open sources and hands it to you as evidence, each item sourced and dated. The determination stays with you.
We report what the records show and what they do not, and your compliance function or your counsel decides what to do about it.
What's Included
Ownership and control chain
Registered owner, bareboat charterer where recorded, commercial and technical managers, and the corporate layers behind them, traced as far as the available records allow. Where the chain goes dark, we say where and why.
Flag and registry history
Current flag, previous flags, the dates of each change, and any pattern of rapid or repeated re-registration.
Trading history and port call patterns
Recorded voyages, ports and areas of operation over the period you specify, with gaps and irregularities in the record identified rather than smoothed over.
Vessel identity checks
IMO number, name history, call sign and registry particulars, checked for consistency between the identity presented to you and the identity in the record.
AIS behaviour review
Transmission gaps, position inconsistencies and ship-to-ship activity apparent from the data available for the period reviewed.
Designation list matching
Name and identifier matching for the vessel, the owner and the management chain against the public designation lists published by the sanctions authorities you tell us are relevant, including the US OFAC Specially Designated Nationals list, the UK OFSI consolidated list, the EU consolidated list and the UN Security Council Consolidated List. We record what the lists say on the date we check them. We do not interpret them for you.
A sourced written file
One document. Every finding attributed to the record it came from, with the date of the source and the date of the check, so your file shows what was known and when.
How We Engage
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Scope. Tell us the vessel, the counterparty and the decision in front of you. We agree the sources, the depth, the review period and the deadline in writing before we start.
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Collect. You send us what you already hold. Upload typically takes one to two hours through the secure portal, and for a complete submission received early in the working day we aim to return the reviewed result the same working day.
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Assemble. We work the technical and open sources, reconcile them against what you supplied, and record every inconsistency we find.
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Report. You get the written file, the sourced findings, and a plain statement of what could not be established from the sources available.
Outcomes
What This Is Not
SolarisTech does not provide legal sanctions advice. We do not issue clearance, an all-clear, a sanctions opinion or any form of certification that a vessel, a counterparty or a transaction is lawful in any jurisdiction. We are not a law firm and we do not act as one. This is a technical and open source exercise: we report what the available records show, what they contradict and what they leave unanswered. The determination is made by your own compliance function or your counsel, on their own judgment. Sources are checked as at the date stated in the report.
Records change, and a screening reflects the position on the day it was carried out. Our reports are prepared for the party that instructs us and for the purpose stated in the engagement. Reliance by any other party requires our written agreement.
Who This Is For
- Charterers, screening a candidate before fixing.
- Banks and lessors, screening a borrower, a counterparty or an asset before drawdown.
- Underwriters, screening an entry or a risk before binding.
- Law firms, assembling a technical evidence base for a client's own determination.
- Sale and purchase brokers, checking a vessel and a chain before a transaction moves.
Engagements are led by our founder, and every report names the reviewer who wrote it. Where a scope needs more than one principal, we say so at scoping and name the individuals before work begins. The reviewer's name, the sources used and the review period are stated on the face of the report.
Your reviewer
Thomas Blenk
American Bureau of Shipping, latterly Corporate Vice President, Global Marine Sectors. Deputy Commissioner of Maritime Affairs, Republic of the Marshall Islands.
Screen It Before You Sign It
Give us the vessel and the counterparty and we will tell you what the sources say, what they do not say, and where the record stops.