Maritime analytics firm Windward has launched a dedicated real-time dashboard tracking key shipping metrics across the Persian Gulf crisis, as the industry’s hunger for reliable, up-to-the-minute data on the world’s most consequential maritime disruption drives a wave of new intelligence tools from multiple providers.
The Windward dashboard monitors vessel movements, attack incidents, chokepoint traffic flows and related risk indicators as the Hormuz crisis enters its second month. It sits alongside Windward’s daily written crisis reports.
Windward is not alone in rushing analytical infrastructure to market. The International Energy Agency launched its own Middle East Maritime Chokepoints Shipping Monitor earlier this month, drawing on IMF PortWatch data to track traffic flows through three critical waterways since the war began on February 28. The IEA described the conflict as having created “the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market”.
“The need for trusted, real-time maritime intelligence has never been greater,” Windward said.
With GPS jamming, AIS spoofing and vessels going dark all reported across the region, the reliability of standard tracking data has been compromised. Dashboards that aggregate, cross-reference and contextualise multiple data streams are filling a critical gap – providing the situational awareness that shipowners, insurers and governments need to make decisions in an environment where the normal signals can no longer be trusted.