Latam under watch: Sanctions, dark activity, and port risk
Synopsis
Venezuela's evolving sanctions landscape, deceptive shipping tactics, and the ports moving cargo across the region all carry real compliance and commercial risk, often hidden until it's too late.
What you'll learn
- Venezuela maritime trade and sanctions: how evolving U.S. restrictions and waivers shape vessel activity and commodity flows
- Deceptive shipping practices: key patterns including AIS manipulation, dark activity and ship-to-ship transfers
- How Kpler identifies maritime risk: combining trade flows, vessel behaviour, satellite imagery and analyst validation to uncover higher-risk activity
- AIS network advantage: Why seeing more vessels and receiving signals earlier creates stronger operational, commercial, and compliance intelligence, covering dark activity and how an exception-driven model reduces false positives and speeds up visibility
- Container tracking and intelligence: connecting vessel movements with container-level visibility to understand where goods are, where disruption is developing, and when they'll actually arrive, covering ports as critical infrastructure, port calls, congestion, and container flows across major Latam gateways
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.
Rob Taylor-Branco
Rob is a maritime data and intelligence specialist with more than 15 years of experience in AIS, commercial strategy and the application of vessel-tracking data across shipping, energy, commodities, finance and Governments. He has led global maritime sales teams, developed strategic accounts and partnerships, and supported the integration of maritime intelligence into oil, LNG, offshore, OEMs, wind and many other analytics projects. At Genscape and Wood Mackenzie, he secured key satellite-data partnerships, helped develop new maritime products and expanded the sales organisation across EMEA and APAC. Rob has received multiple awards for sales performance, new business and major-client acquisition.
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