Solution for Freight & Logistics

Know Your Trading Partners Before Cargo Moves

Investigate overseas suppliers, freight partners, carriers and corporate networks with AI-powered corporate intelligence. Reduce supplier risk, strengthen compliance and make faster business decisions.

Every new trading partner introduces risk

In freight forwarding and logistics, every shipment depends on trust. You’re working with overseas suppliers, freight agents, customs brokers, carriers, importers and exporters – often across multiple jurisdictions.

A company may appear legitimate on paper while hiding regulatory issues, complex ownership structures or connections to sanctioned or high-risk entities. Traditional searches and spreadsheets only tell part of the story.

VerityRadar helps you see the bigger picture before your business takes on unnecessary risk.

Make better decisions with complete corporate intelligence

VerityRadar brings catalogued sanctions, watchlist and enforcement sources together with company registry data and regulatory records in one platform, and researches litigation and adverse media over live public sources. Investigate companies and the people behind them in minutes – not hours.

Whether you’re reviewing a customs broker in Australia, a freight forwarder in the UK, or an overseas supplier you need screened against sanctions and enforcement lists in more than 120 jurisdictions, VerityRadar helps your team investigate corporate relationships faster and more thoroughly.

Why freight and logistics teams choose VerityRadar

Investigate overseas suppliers

Understand who you’re doing business with before signing contracts or shipping goods.

Uncover ownership structures

Directors, shareholders and beneficial owners wherever the register publishes them – and where it doesn’t.

Assess supplier risk

Reveal regulatory issues, adverse media and other warning signs before they impact your business.

Support trade compliance

Strengthen your due diligence processes with reliable corporate intelligence.

Save hours of manual research

Stop switching between multiple websites and databases. Get the information you need in one place.

Screen against sanctions lists

Check brokers, forwarders and carriers against catalogued sanctions and enforcement sources.

Why VerityRadar

Six things that hold up when someone asks.

Every finding, traced to its source.

Every finding links back to the document it came from – the OFAC listing, the court filing, the registry entry. Where a source can’t be produced, the finding is marked unsupported and can never drive a high-risk score.

An evidence pack, not a PDF.

Enterprise reports export as a signed evidence pack, sealed under a detached RS256 signature. Your counterparty verifies it against our published public key, without taking our word for it.

Seven years, on record, by design.

Every screening’s audit record is held for a minimum of seven years; the setting that shortens it doesn’t exist, because AUSTRAC’s floor is a floor.

Risk scores you can explain.

Every score comes with a plain-English breakdown of what drove it – which findings, which sources, which category of risk. Your team can stand behind it because they understand it.

Ownership tracing that follows the OFAC 50% rule.

Sanctioned stakes are aggregated, and a parent that is itself 50%-owned counts in full rather than being diluted down the chain. That’s what surfaces the sanctioned party hiding two entities back.

A defensible answer in minutes.

Manual screening eats hours of senior associate time. VerityRadar returns a structured, sourced risk report in minutes – up to three for sanctions cases.

Frequently asked questions

Freight & Logistics – common questions.

How do freight forwarders perform company due diligence?

Freight forwarders use company intelligence, ownership information, sanctions screening, regulatory records and supplier risk assessments to verify new trading partners before onboarding them.

Why is supplier due diligence important in logistics?

Supplier due diligence helps reduce fraud, sanctions exposure, compliance breaches and supply chain disruptions by identifying potential risks before contracts are signed.

What information should businesses check before working with overseas suppliers?

Businesses should review company registration details, directors, beneficial ownership, regulatory history, adverse media, and related corporate entities.

How can logistics companies investigate overseas trading partners?

VerityRadar enables logistics businesses to investigate companies, ownership structures, directors, shareholders and related entities wherever the register publishes them, to better understand who they are trading with before contracts are signed or shipments begin.

Can VerityRadar support trade compliance?

Yes. VerityRadar strengthens trade compliance by providing corporate intelligence that helps organisations assess counterparties, identify ownership structures and investigate business relationships as part of their due diligence processes.

Can VerityRadar investigate international suppliers and freight partners?

Yes. VerityRadar screens companies and the people behind them against sanctions, PEP and enforcement sources covering more than 120 jurisdictions.

Who uses VerityRadar in logistics businesses?

Typical users include risk and compliance managers, procurement teams, customs compliance professionals, supply chain managers, operations leaders and executives responsible for approving new trading partners.

Is VerityRadar an AML platform?

No. VerityRadar is a corporate intelligence platform. It complements AML and KYC processes rather than replacing them: every report carries the AML-relevant findings — sanctions, PEP and beneficial-ownership screening, each linked to its source — but the programme, the workflow and the reporting obligations remain yours.

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Knowledge Hub

Start investigating with confidence.

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