Coast Guard manifest compliance for the ferry operators who are absolutely winging it right now
FerryKYC handles real-time passenger identity verification and USCG manifest submission for small and mid-sized ferry operators who are currently managing this with Excel and vibes. It screens passengers against watchlists, auto-generates Form CG-4716 submissions, and survives seasonal route chaos without making anyone cry. I built this because I missed a ferry once, started reading the compliance docs, and genuinely could not stop.
- Real-time passenger identity screening against federal and international watchlists
- Auto-generates and submits Form CG-4716 with a sub-340ms round-trip on standard hardware
- Native integration with Sailings.io manifest sync and legacy PortBase EDI feeds
- Seasonal route configuration that doesn't collapse when you add a fourth summer departure
- Offline-tolerant — because maritime WiFi is a lie
Sailings.io, PortBase EDI, USCG MISLE, Stripe, Twilio, TideSync API, DocuSign, AWS Rekognition, VesselTrack Pro, HarborOps, TridentID, Salesforce
FerryKYC is built on a Node.js microservices core with a React frontend that talks to a FastAPI screening service over internal gRPC. Passenger records are persisted in MongoDB because the schema changes every time a new federal form revision drops and I refuse to fight a migration at 5am before a 6am departure window. Session state and watchlist cache live in Redis, which is doing the work of a real database here and holding up fine. The whole thing runs on a single DigitalOcean droplet per operator instance — horizontal scaling is roadmapped and I mean it this time.
🟢 Production. Actively maintained.
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