IPS takes ongoing custody of your vessel's compliance file — beneficial ownership verified, corporate structure mapped, and the full operational compliance profile maintained and held ready. When a port authority, financier, charterer, or counterparty demands it, IPS issues a certified vessel compliance dossier on your authority.
A vessel's compliance identity is more than its registration documents. It encompasses the beneficial ownership chain behind the owning entity, the corporate structure through which the asset is held, flag state obligations, classification status, crew certification, insurance, and AML/CTF compliance status. Each of these elements is subject to change — and each creates exposure if not current when a demand arrives.
Vessel Compliance Custodianship is a living compliance file for your vessel — maintained continuously by IPS, audit-ready at all times, and deployable as a certified dossier when any counterparty, regulator, or authority requires it. When a transaction demands due diligence, the dossier is already complete. When a flag state asks questions, the answers are already documented.
IPS builds the initial vessel compliance file — UBO verification and beneficial ownership mapping, corporate structure documentation, flag state registration confirmation, classification status, crew certification review, insurance verification, and AML/CTF compliance assessment. This is a subscription engagement, with the file maintained continuously thereafter.
Complete beneficial ownership transparency from vessel registration through intermediate holding structures to ultimate beneficial owners — maintained in compliance with evolving international transparency requirements and Australia's Tranche 2 AML/CTF reforms. The ownership chain that satisfies the verification demands of any counterparty in any jurisdiction.
Flag state registration and standing, classification society status, P&I and hull insurance confirmation, crew certification summary, and the regulatory compliance status that determines whether your vessel can trade, charter, and transact without interruption. Maintained as a current record, not a historic one.
Continuous monitoring of regulatory changes, sanctions list updates, flag state requirement changes, and classification society notices that affect your vessel's compliance status. Proactive alerts ensure you are never caught unaware by a regulatory shift — because a vessel's compliance posture can change without the owner taking any action at all.
The vessel compliance dossier is the authoritative document IPS issues in response to a counterparty demand. Comprehensive, certified, and structured for the audience that receives it — whether a commercial counterparty, a flag state authority, a financier conducting due diligence, or a port authority requiring immediate verification.
Vessel Compliance Custodianship engagements begin with an initial compliance build — beneficial ownership verification, documentation, and file establishment — followed by ongoing maintenance on subscription. The result is a vessel and ownership structure that is permanently audit-ready.