Maritime Shipping Intelligence
@apifyforge
Maritime shipping intelligence for freight forwarders, marine insurers, and trade compliance teams who need vessel sanctions screening, port disruption forecasting, and trade route risk assessment without subscribing to expensive maritime data platforms.
Overview
What is Maritime Shipping Intelligence?
Maritime Shipping Intelligence is an MCP server that aggregates 8 live data sources—OFAC, OpenSanctions, UN COMTRADE, NOAA, GDACS, OpenCorporates, GLEIF, and weather forecasts—into a single tool-calling interface for freight forwarders, marine insurers, and trade compliance teams. It returns scored risk assessments backed by primary-source data without requiring expensive maritime data platform subscriptions.
How to use Maritime Shipping Intelligence?
Add the server URL https://ryanclinton--maritime-shipping-intelligence-mcp.apify.actor/mcp to your MCP client configuration (e.g., Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf). Then ask natural language questions about vessels, ports, trade routes, or counterparties—the AI selects the appropriate tool automatically.
Key features of Maritime Shipping Intelligence
- 8 MCP tools covering sanctions, weather, trade compliance, counterparty, flag state, cargo origin, route weather, and fleet risk
- Composite Maritime Risk Score (0-100) with five-tier verdict system (CLEAR_TO_PROCEED… DO_NOT_ENGAGE)
- OFAC SDN screening with match confidence scoring; 80%+ confidence triggers automatic CRITICAL classification
- OpenSanctions cross-matching across 40+ international watchlists
- Herfindahl-Hirschman Index trade concentration scoring for route dependency risk
- Parallel actor execution – all data sources queried simultaneously per tool call
Use cases of Maritime Shipping Intelligence
- Vessel pre-booking sanctions compliance – screen vessels and beneficial owners against OFAC, OpenSanctions, and corporate registries in one call
- Port operations disruption forecasting – pull live NOAA marine alerts and GDACS disaster events for a named port or coastal region
- Marine insurance underwriting – assess flag state risk and beneficial ownership transparency to justify premium levels
- Trade route compliance and cargo origin verification – detect transshipment through sanctioned jurisdictions using UN COMTRADE and sanctions databases
- Fleet-wide risk monitoring – generate Composite Maritime Risk Scores for 10–100 vessels in a single tool call
FAQ from Maritime Shipping Intelligence
What data sources does Maritime Shipping Intelligence use?
It aggregates 8 live sources: OFAC SDN, OpenSanctions, UN COMTRADE, NOAA, GDACS, OpenCorporates, GLEIF, and weather forecast services, plus a flag state classification model and a scoring engine.
Do I need to install any software to use the MCP server?
No. You only need an MCP-compatible AI client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf). Add the server URL to your client configuration; no local code or dependencies are required.
How is the Composite Maritime Risk Score calculated?
The score (0-100) is weighted: vessel sanctions 30%, trade route compliance 25%, counterparty risk 20%, port disruption 15%, flag state risk 10%. A verdict is assigned from CLEAR_TO_PROCEED to DO_NOT_ENGAGE.
Is there any cost or spend limit enforcement?
Each tool call costs $0.045. The server enforces spend limits by checking Apify's event charge limit before executing, preventing runaway costs.
What authentication or transport does the server use?
The MCP server is accessed via a public URL. There is no authentication mentioned in the README; all queries run with Apify's proxy rotation infrastructure to avoid rate limits.
