News UN-Sanctioned Cargo Ship Detained in Indonesia In 2017, the United Nations sanctioned the Chinese-owned PETREL 8 for silently ferrying coal between its country of origin and North Korea....
Event How Vessel Identity Laundering Facilitates North Korea’s Maritime Sanctions Evasion On November 16, 2021, the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) will partner with C4ADS to present a...
Report Unmasked Unmasked uses North Korea case studies to show how stakeholders across the maritime domain can apply the same methods to detect cases...
Report Black Gold Black Gold finds that North Korea has been engaging organized criminal networks and participating in a regional fuel smuggling market in violation...
Issue Brief Shared Skies Shared Skies offers examples of data-backed linkages between wildlife trafficking and other illicit activities and introduces a framework of five levels of...
Commentary Sanctions Explorer: How We Built It C4ADS’ Data and Technology team created a custom analytical tool to improve sanctions tracking. Read about how we did it.
Commentary Sanctions Explorer: a C4ADS Data Tool Why we built Sanctions Explorer, a public tool to more easily track US, UN, and EU sanctions.
Report Runway to Extinction Examining the trends, transit routes, and trafficking methods used by wildlife smugglers exploiting the air transport sector.
Commentary Against the Grain This blog post is an introduction to and summary of preliminary findings of a C4ADS project investigating sand dredging in Haeju, North...