The Flow Report
Live IntelligenceCommodity intelligence · Vessel tracking · Physics-informed analytics · Spatial intelligence
Congestion Tracker
Recurring figure: where queue pressure is distorting commodity flows right now.
Rouen leads with 94.0h median wait and 16 vessels waiting.
Port Dwell Distributions: Newcastle 2.8×, Houston 13.6×. The Tail Ratio Predicts Demurrage Risk.
Median dwell time tells you what a typical port call looks like. The P90/P50 ratio tells you whether your charterer should buy demurrage insurance....
6.4% of AIS Pings Don't Say Where They're Going. The Rest Spell Houston Seven Different Ways.
Across a recent 1,000-ping AIS sample, 6.4% of broadcasts carried no resolvable destination — and the rest spell Houston seven different ways. The opacity layer is itself a leading indicator of declared-vs-actual mismatch.
Recalibrating Risk Tiers Surfaces 1,702 Dark Events; 66% Cluster in the Singapore Strait
A scoring threshold change exposed 1,702 dark events that the SAR verification pipeline had been silently ignoring. 1,127 of them sit in one waterway.