Dear Secretaries General, We are writing to you to reiterate our concerns regarding the potential imposition of tolls or service fees in the Strait of Hormuz. As the International Maritime Organization has highlighted repeatedly, since the beginning of…
The tanker market could be faced with a totally different scenario in the future, regardless of what happens in the Strait of Hormuz, since, it now looks that the previous status won’t return, even after an agreement is reached between Iran and the US….
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From products to crude: how the strikes reshaped Russia’s seaborne exports Ukraine’s strikes on Russian ports and refineries stepped up sharply after March 2026, and the effect on Russia’s seaborne oil trade was not really a simple fa…
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For most of my career at sea and ashore, vetting was seen as a stressful test to survive. The inspector arrives, tensions rise, and the outcome is perceived as a verdict based on a single day’s performance. That mindset is now a liability, and it…
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Navigational safety is once again the topic of discussion in the Middle East, after the latest escalation coming from the Houthi regime in Yemen, on top of concerns regarding Hormuz. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Intermodal said that “the Mid…
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