Pacific / Atlantic
The ships that keep a fleet at sea
C4ADS links Wei Fong carriers and Zhoushan Ningtai operations while explicitly noting lawful, authorized carrier activity. It also examines floating medical and logistics support.
Investigative reportingC4ADS study period 2021–2024, published 2025 · Reviewed September 8, 2026
What the record establishes
C4ADS links Wei Fong carriers and Zhoushan Ningtai operations while explicitly noting lawful, authorized carrier activity. It also examines floating medical and logistics support.05
Why it matters
distinguish an observed encounter, a documented service, a confirmed cargo transfer and a proven prohibited transaction. A service relationship can explain how a fleet operates without proving that the service provider knew of abuse.
The sequence
Period covered by this record
Read the cited findings and their stated limits. This is a dated case or context record, not live vessel monitoring.05
Responses and legal posture
The linked record does not establish a separate response obtained by this project. No outreach was conducted for this file.
What remains unresolved
use cargo manifests, authorizations and contemporaneous registry records to substantiate individual connections. Medical support should be evaluated for care and accountability outcomes, not treated as inherently suspicious.
Not established in this module
How to read the evidence labels →Sources for this file
Keeping the Lights On: Uncovering the Networks Enabling the Distant Water Squid Fleet ↗
Printed pp. 8–17; methods, carriers, support and ownership dispute
Source limits
Risk-selected identities and AIS-derived events; certain ownership attribution explicitly disputed. Commercial service does not establish complicity.
