Sanctioned-vessel screening API

Check a ship name or IMO number against the OFAC SDN vessel records (free public sdn.csv) — we parse the vessel rows out of the flat file, extract the IMO from the unstructured remarks, and serve exact-IMO lookup plus fuzzy name matching with the vessel's flag, type, call sign, tonnage and program. Maritime compliance teams pay for exactly this. Answers 'is this vessel sanctioned', 'OFAC vessel check by IMO', 'sanctioned ship lookup', 'screen this vessel name'.

Price$0.03per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/identity/vessel-screen

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache86400s public

identityvesselshipimoofacsanctionsmaritimescreening

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/identity/vessel-screen

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "imo": "7406784"
}

Example response

{
  "query": {
    "name": null,
    "imo": "7406784"
  },
  "threshold": 0.85,
  "matchCount": 1,
  "matches": [
    {
      "name": "EBANO",
      "matchedOn": "imo",
      "score": 1,
      "imo": "7406784",
      "flag": "Panama",
      "vesselType": "General Cargo",
      "callSign": "",
      "tonnage": "2595",
      "program": "CUBA",
      "entNum": "4243"
    }
  ],
  "list": {
    "source": "OFAC SDN vessels",
    "entries": 600
  }
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [],
  "properties": {
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "EBANO"
      ]
    },
    "imo": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "7406784"
      ]
    },
    "threshold": {
      "type": "number",
      "default": 0.85,
      "examples": [
        0.85
      ]
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "default": 20,
      "examples": [
        20
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}