The turning tides of maritime compliance: Lessons from 2025, risks for 2026
Synopsis
2025 marked a decisive shift for maritime compliance. Sanctions accelerated across major jurisdictions, shadow fleets scaled into resilient parallel networks, and deceptive practices such as AIS spoofing and dark STS transfers became structural features of global trade rather than isolated violations.In this webinar, Kpler Risk & Compliance analysts reviewed key lessons from 2025 and explained why 2026 will be a tougher stress test for compliance frameworks.
Drawing on vessel behaviour, sanctions data, and network analysis, this session explored how risk is migrating across routes, hubs, and counterparties—and why reactive, watchlist-based compliance is no longer sufficient.
What you'll learn
- How seizures and designations can be anticipated months ahead
- Why behaviour-led early warning is becoming a governance requirement, not a nice-to-have
- How to operationalise signals into daily sanctions screening and escalation workflows
Meet the speakers
Dimitris Ampatzidis
Dimitris is a Maritime Risk & Compliance Manager with deep shipping industry expertise in risk assessment, governance, and data analytics. He has led the launch of industry-standard risk products and developed comprehensive sanctions and compliance protocols. At Lloyd’s Register, he was the go-to expert for Port State Control (PSC) analytics, delivering training to shipping professionals and developing emissions reporting and sanctions frameworks. Previously, he helped build the RISK4SEA platform at SAFETY4SEA. He holds Master’s degrees in IT Project Management and Information Systems, and a Bachelor’s in Statistics and Insurance Science.
Ana Subasic
Ana Subasic is a trade risk analyst at Kpler, where she combines energy market fundamentals, geopolitical analysis, and legal investigation to assess emerging trade risks, structures and sanctions circumvention. After joining Kpler in 2022 as an LNG market analyst, she transitioned into Risk and Compliance in 2025 to strengthen the team’s forward-looking analytical capabilities on a the cross-commodity scale. Her work focuses on shadow and dark trade investigations, including breaking intelligence and insights into high-risk commodity flows. Ana serves as a key voice within Risk and Compliance, translating regulatory developments, sanctions dynamics, and geopolitical shifts into structured assessments and actionable intelligence for clients.
Yuan Li
Li Yuan is a Junior Risk & Compliance Analyst at Kpler, based in Singapore. She works on data-driven risk analysis, supporting the Risk & Compliance team through deeper exploration of maritime data and ongoing experimentation with predictive insights. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Data Science and Analytics, with a second major in Economics, from the National University of Singapore. With a strong analytical foundation, she helps transform complex datasets and behavioural signals into practical risk insights that support compliance workflows and forward-looking risk assessment.
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