Maritime Intelligence Risk Suite (MIRS)
Shield Your Business from Maritime Risk
Threats at sea are pervasive, from geopolitical crises and global money laundering to cargo theft, piracy and crew kidnappings. These risks pose a huge challenge to marine insurers, finance institutions, banks, governments and any business with global supply chains. To minimize your risk exposure and maximize operational efficiency, you need data and insight you can trust.
The Maritime Intelligence Risk Suite (MIRS) integrates the world’s largest maritime database, real-time ship movement tracking software, and a newly developed risk events database to provide a one-stop maritime risk mitigation solution. MIRS delivers the tools you need to:
- Reduce maritime exposures
- Make informed underwriting decisions
- Carry out compliance checks on ships and their seven levels of ownership
- Comply with anti-money laundering laws
- Establish strong domain awareness
MIRS Supports your Business Needs
Insurance
Chief underwriting officers and marine actuaries use MIRS to:
- Vet customers and forecast potential risks
- Conduct ship and ownership research
- Monitor port state control events
- Identify ownership levels
- Monitor ships in high-risk zones
- Search casualty and risk events
Compliance
Bank compliance departments use MIRS to:
- Conduct essential day-to-day sanctions screening
- Undertake ship and ownership research
- Print compliance support documents
- Monitor and receive alerts for ships calling on sanctioned countries
Domain Awareness
Ship-owners/managers, financial institutions, port authorities and national security officers use MIRS to:
- Identify, monitor and forecast security risk
- Verify ships in their waters
- Pinpoint ships in high-risk areas
- Monitor mid-ocean/coastal areas and ports
- Monitor ships in custom-designated zones
- See live and historical ship tracks
- Obtain piracy and security intelligence
- Conduct risk event analysis
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Explore the Data Points You Receive with MIRS
Ship Characterstics
MIRS offers 600+ data fields on 200,000+ ships of 100 GT and above with screening views on ships to immediately identify risk associated with a ship.
7 Levels of Company Ownership
Granular records on 240,000+ marine companies, including owners, operators, managers and builders.
Inspections & Detentions History
See a ships full inspections & detentions history as reported by the Port State Control Authorities.
Bespoke Ship, Company & Area Alerts
Automatically monitor ships, companies, ports, custom zones, JWC war risk zones and OFAC sanctioned country calls.
Country & Port Security Risk Updates
Daily updated online news coverage of global events, country risks and piracy hijackings affecting the security of your ships.
Ports, Terminals and Berth Intelligence
Details on 15K+ ports and terminals worldwide. Updated daily, MIRS Ports connects you to 4,000+ maps, port plans, photographs and mooring guides as well as data on 7,000+ tanker berths.
Casuality, Piracy & Pollution Incidents
Database of over 90K events with export and analysis views. See these events as a layer on the AIS mapping solution. Receive notification on maritime events as they happen.
Live & Historical AIS Movements
Combined live and historical global ship tracking intelligence to identify ships trading patterns, identify ships entering domain or areas of interest with a risk indicator.
Insurance, Legal & Domain Awareness Screening
7 levels of ownership on OFAC List, sanctioned country calls and maritime risk events associated with each ship.
MIRS Capabilities and Benefits
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Automated Alerts
Keep up to date with casualty incidents worldwide through email alerts that provide reported incidents (unverified by S&P Global)
- Risk event alerts – Casualties, piracy and pollution notifications
Get system notification/email alerts when a ship of interest, customer fleet, or any ship enters, exits or is headed for a volatile/sanctioned location or poses voyage risk or policy infringement/compliance risk to your business
- Ships entering/exiting high-risk areas
- JWC Oceanic Zones
- JWC Territorial Zones
- Sanctioned Countries
Monitor suspicious ships entering your port or vessels coming from high-risk ports
- Port – Get notification when a ship changes its destination to your port(s) of interest or arrives/departs a specific port
Receive alerts for changes regarding your WatchList ships or ships entering/exit designated zones
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Maritime Ship/Owner/Port/Shipbuilder Intelligence
See the risk rating for a ship’s last, current and future port of call
- Ships – Last port risk rating
- Ships – Current port risk rating
- Ships – Future port risk rating
Quickly see a ship’s involvement in any MIRS-recorded events during past 12 months and assess the severity
- MIRS events involving ship past 12 months
View a company’s ship by ship type, ship age or flag
Undertake ship and ownership research
See a ship’s recent, current and future port calling risk
Easily upload multiple IMO numbers to perform targeted analysis
Analyze world fleet by ship type, age, retirement year and nationality
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High-Risk Event Map Layers with Ship Tracking
Visualize high and low-risk areas
- Risk events layer
See ships in or near high-risk areas
- Joint War Committee Zone layer
Track vessels operating in restricted areas for compliance monitoring
- Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) or sanctioned countries layer
Filter event results to visualize specific events, ship types involved and incidents over time
- Events – Risk event type, event age, ship type, pollution occurred
Filter ships based on port risk rating, visualize/list ships with calls to sanctioned countries, see ships in JWC war zones or sailing close to or headed toward OFAC countries
- Ships – Risk rating of last port/destination port
- Ships – Sanctioned country calls in past year
- Ships – In war zone, proximity to OFAC-sanctioned countries, destination sanctioned country
Filter map to view ports with low extreme risk ratings, understand port risk by country/region, get total risk or specific risk score for ports
- Ports – Total risk rating
- Ports – Specific risk rating (civil unrest, terrorism, war)
Visualize port risk ratings by color and calculate ship distance to any point on map
- Map – Show port color by risk rating and distance tables
Verify the ships you do business with are not on the OFAC list
View color-coded map of port risk by country and region
Profile high-risk ships/routes to secure your domain
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Risk Event Intelligence and Map Layers
Search and filter all/specific events to see types of casualty, piracy and pollution events, vessel type and geographic locations for understanding risk factors when building risk models for policy premiums/benchmarking
- Events Search
Conduct event analysis by type and date
- Event Type – Casualty, piracy, pollution
- Event Date
Identify if pollution involved, casualty type, external item involved, piracy significance
- Incident – Advanced search option
Identify profiles of ships that carry high or low risk ships by searching for events involving specific ship types with specific flats, DWT and GT, so you can set premiums for ship type groups/age
- Ships – Advanced search options
Search for events using a map selector by zone or Marsden grid to identify historical high/low-risk areas
- Locations – Advanced search option
Display up to 12 data fields in search results, analyze results and export data into your own systems or reports for risk modeling or analysis
- Choose from 26 possible data fields
- Export data as .txt, .csv and .xlxs
Quickly view ship details and owners identified in your search
- Link events results to ships list/owners list
Create interactive charts to include in your risk research or analysis, with options to print or download charts as a .jpg, .png or PDF
- Analysis view of your search results
Analyze events by specific criteria of interest
- Analyze events by flag (selected list), owner nationality, ship type, ship age, year
Search risk events by ship flag, owner nationality, ship type and ship age
Visualize risk events on interactive map
Maritime & Trade Research and Analysis
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