Screen vessels and companies with the Compliance & Risk Check

The Compliance & Risk Check screens a vessel or a company against sanctions lists and a set of risk signals, such as port calls in sanctioned jurisdictions, identity changes, port state control detentions and missing P&I cover. It sums them up in one risk status, lists each finding with its details, and lets you export the result as a PDF report.

It is on every vessel profile, and on its own tab of every owner and manager profile.

Who uses it

• Compliance and KYC teams screen a vessel or counterparty before a fixture, a port call or a payment, and keep the PDF as evidence.
• Chartering and operations teams check a vessel before it is nominated.
• Agents and suppliers check who they are about to work with.

Risk statuses

Three statuses are shown as a label, in a banner at the top of the profile, as a badge next to the name and in large type in the check:

Status	What it means
Sanctioned	The vessel or company is named on an active sanctions list, or a vessel’s registered owner is. Dealings may be prohibited, or need a licence, in the jurisdictions listed.
High risk	Several significant risk indicators were found, for example repeated calls at ports in sanctioned jurisdictions, frequent flag and MMSI changes, a black-listed flag and a recent detention. Enhanced due diligence is recommended before any dealing.
Elevated risk	Some risk indicators were found. Review the findings and confirm the position with the counterparty.

A vessel can be Sanctioned without being on a list itself: the status sentence then says, for example, “This vessel is not itself named on any active sanctions list, but its registered owner is a sanctioned party.” High risk and Elevated risk are risk assessments, not sanctions listings.

Every other vessel or company has no label, no banner and no badge. The sentence at the top of the check tells you which result it is:

The check says	What it means	Export PDF
“Only minor indicators were identified. Standard due diligence applies.”	A few minor findings, listed below the sentence	Yes
“No risk indicators were identified in the checks listed below. Standard due diligence applies.”	Nothing of concern was found	No

If MagicPort has no screening record for a vessel or company, that does not mean it is free of risk. Screen it another way, for example with Sanctions Search.

Note: The Compliance & Risk Check is a screening result, not a legal clearance. Each finding shows its data source and when it was last updated, and MagicPort has not independently verified the data published by those sources. It is one input to your compliance process, not a substitute for it.

Where you see the status

• A coloured Compliance status banner at the top of the profile, with See details, and a badge next to the vessel or company name. Both appear only for Sanctioned, High risk and Elevated risk.
• The Compliance Status card on the right of a vessel profile, or on a company’s Overview tab, with a one-sentence summary and Show details. It is shown for every vessel and company.
• A warning icon before the vessel name in result lists, such as Scheduled Arrivals, Nearby Vessels, Vessel Search and your fleets.

Risk icons in vessel lists

In the table view of any vessel list, a warning icon before the vessel name shows its status at a glance. Hover over the icon to see the status.

Icon	Status
Red warning icon	Sanctioned
Orange warning icon	High risk
Yellow warning icon	Elevated risk
No icon	No significant risk: minor indicators or none

Click the vessel name to open its profile and see the findings behind the icon. To remove risky vessels from the list, turn on Hide risky vessels above the table.

Vessel checks

Only the checks with something to report are listed, so a clean vessel shows only a few rows. Click a row to see the details behind it.

Check	What it looks at
Vessel sanctions list	Whether the vessel itself is designated, with each authority, programme and listing date, and the stated reasons
Sanctioned owner	Whether its registered owner, ISM manager or commercial manager is a sanctioned party, with that company’s designations
Linked sanctioned vessels	Other sanctioned vessels run by the same owner or manager, and the lists that name them
Port call history	Port calls involving high-risk jurisdictions subject to US, EU and UK sectoral sanctions, over the last 6, 12 or 24 months
Vessel identity changes	Changes of name, flag, MMSI, call sign, owner, manager or class society, and whether any changed two or more times in the last 24 months
Class society	Whether its class was withdrawn by an IACS society, for example when it moved to a society outside IACS
P&I insurance	Whether a P&I insurance record was found
Flag performance	How the flag is rated by the Paris MoU (white, grey or black list) and the Tokyo MoU
Port-state control	Port state control inspections in the last 24 months, deficiencies and grounds for detention
Detentions	Each detention, how long it lasted and the deficiencies behind it
Recurring deficiencies	Deficiencies inspectors raised more than once in the last 24 months

Note: “No P&I insurance record found” may be a real gap in cover, or only mean that MagicPort’s sources have no record. Confirm cover with the owner, manager, P&I club or broker.

Company checks

A company’s status comes from its own sanctions record and from the vessels it owns or manages. Sanctioned fleet shows how many of its vessels are sanctioned or high risk; click it to list them with their role and status.

PDF reports

Click Export PDF to download the check as a branded PDF report, with your own reference number and notes. It is available whenever the check has findings: Sanctioned, High risk, Elevated risk, or “Only minor indicators were identified”.

Plan	PDF exports
Free trial	10 in total
Paid plans	Up to 100 a month

See Export a compliance report as PDF.

How-to guides

• Check a vessel for compliance risk
• Check a company for compliance risk
• Export a compliance report as PDF
• Check a vessel or company for sanctions, to search the sanctions lists by name

Frequently asked questions

How often is the check updated? The Screened date and time at the bottom of the check shows when it was last run.

Can I be told when a vessel’s sanctions status changes? Yes. Create an alert with the Sanction Status Change trigger. See Alert on sanctions or identity changes.

Why is there no Export PDF button? The check found no risk indicators (“No risk indicators were identified in the checks listed below”), so there is nothing to report.

Can I hide risky vessels from a list? Yes. Turn on Hide risky vessels above any vessel list. See Work with search results.