ELKE — Know Your Vessel

Present Location

Risk Assessment

• OFAC SANCTIONED — IRAN-EO13902 (designated unknown date)
• FLAG OF CONCERN — vessel registered in a low-oversight flag state
• AIS DARK PERIODS — 1 events, 32 hours dark
• ABNORMAL PORT DWELL — avg 295h per port visit
• FREQUENT LOITERING — 34 stationary events (possible STS transfers)

Sanctions Status

Remarks: Vessel Year of Build 1993; Vessel Registration Identification IMO 9012886; MMSI 511100419; Linked To: NOVA LINES INC.

Voyage Pattern

Primary route: KHOR FAKKAN → ZHUHAI → ZHAPU

Data period: 2023-05-14 to 2026-06-22

Recent port calls:

AIS Dark Periods

1 events, 32 hours total darkness

ESTIMATED — implied speed = straight-line distance / dark hours. Actual route unknown. Reference: loaded VLCC ~12-14 kn, ballast ~15-16 kn, stationary <1 kn = possible STS or anchorage.

Loitering Events

34 events, 1084 hours total (stationary at sea — possible STS transfers)

STS Encounter Detection

Other vessels detected loitering at the same position and time (within ~30nm, overlapping window)

2026-04-26 — Singapore Strait

2026-04-22 — Singapore Strait

35 unique vessels encountered, 16 sanctioned

Port State Control

No inspection data held. This is not a clean record — we currently hold no PSC inspections for any vessel. Do not read the absence of detentions here as evidence of none.

Check Paris MOU and USCG PSIX directly for this vessel.

Cargo Manifests

No manifest data held. Our upstream manifest source now blocks automated access, so this dataset is empty for every vessel — absence here says nothing about this ship's cargo history.

USCG Registration

Data sources: OFAC SDN, USCG CGMIX, Global Fishing Watch, GFW dark events. All records cryptographically attested on Polygon.