24 Sep Daily Briefing 24 September 2024
Black Sea risk unchanged despite back-to-back incidents | Republican lawmakers urge White House to prevent port strike | Food exporters...
Black Sea risk unchanged despite back-to-back incidents | Republican lawmakers urge White House to prevent port strike | Food exporters...
The governments of the U.S., Australia, India and Japan have agreed to start joint coast guard patrols in the Indo-Pacific, a substantial step towards combined maritime operations under the banner of the "Quad." The Quad is widely viewed as a counterbalance to Chinese ambitions, a view...
Construction is set to begin in October 2025, with completion and commissioning planned for December 2027. Full capacity is expected...
The saga of the bulker Ruby, laden with a potentially explosive cargo, continues with the authorities in Northern Europe closely tracking the vessel’s movements. The resolution of the situation remains unclear as the ship continues to hold 20,000 tons of ammonium nitrate which is causing...
Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, Honduras, Sierra Leone, San Marino and Sierra Leone among registries taking on business from dark...
Irish authorities came up with a novel solution for what to do with a vessel long abandoned by smugglers which had become a burden. Seized a decade ago for smuggling, the vessel was used to create the country’s first artificial reef. The MV Shingle had infamously...
Small registries grow at record pace as flag-hopping tankers play regulatory game of ‘whack-a-mole’ | US retailers ‘extremely’ worried as...
For years the world has largely ignored an insidious pollutant humanity has been carelessly throwing into the ocean: light. Newly hatched turtles can be sent off course by the glow of nearby beachfront restaurants, taking them away from the sea and to their deaths. Scientists have shown that...
With less than two weeks to go before the strike deadline at US east and Gulf coast ports, the two...
After an uptick in Russian military activity in the North Pacific and Bering Sea, the U.S. Army has dispatched mobile rocket launchers and about 130 troops to the Aleutian Islands in order to display its ability to mobilize forces to far-flung sites. The deployment is...