Seafarer working on deck during routine maintenance

Impact

A maritime risk picture worth sharing.

Banks pay for the platform. Universities, NGOs and seafarer welfare bodies use it free. The same data underpins both - published openly so the working can be challenged.

Crew welfare. Not an afterthought.

The Crew Welfare Score sits alongside sanctions and CII in every vessel screen. It draws on the ILO Abandonment Register, MLC PSC deficiencies and adverse-media monitoring for wage and repatriation issues.

What goes into the score

ILO Abandonment Register - abandoned vessels, unpaid wages, repatriation owed.
MLC PSC deficiencies - every Paris MOU, Tokyo MOU and USCG inspection coded against the 86 MLC categories.
Adverse media - wage theft and crew change incidents tagged against the operator and beneficial owner.
Flag-state behaviour - chronic non-compliance with MLC reporting raises the score for every vessel under that flag.

A free public lookup tool against the ILO Abandonment Register is in development with ITF input. Updates will land at /news-insights.

Free for the audiences who need it most.

The free tier is not a trial. Universities, NGOs and welfare bodies have unrestricted access to vessel screening, sanctions checking and the ownership chain - the same data the paying customers see.

Universities and maritime colleges

Bayes Business School (Costas Grammenos Centre), World Maritime University, Southampton Solent, NTNU

Methodology citation, teaching cases, joint research on the Exchange.

NGOs and transparency organisations

Oceana, Global Fishing Watch, Transparency International, Human Rights at Sea

Sanctions and ownership traversal for investigations into shadow fleets and beneficial-owner concealment.

Seafarer welfare bodies

ITF, ISWAN, Mission to Seafarers

Public lookup against ILO abandonment data and MLC deficiency flags.

Maritime press and editorial

Hellenic Shipping News, Splash 247, The Maritime Executive

Data widgets and journalist-friendly context blocks, attributed to TrueFathom.

Working in one of these spaces and want bulk access? Email impact@truefathom.com and we'll set up the account.

The case for an open methodology.

Maritime risk scoring has historically lived inside subscription products with six-figure annual fees and undisclosed methods. A regulator could not audit it. A seafarer welfare body could not challenge it. A student could not learn from it.

TrueFathom publishes the weights, the data sources, the freshness SLAs and the provenance block for every output. The same evidence shows up in a credit memo and a journalist's investigation. The bank pays for scale, support and integration. The methodology itself is open.

When a method changes - a new sanctions source, a re-weighting after a regulator update - the version history is on /methodology and in the portal's changelog.