Verihelm Insights
The Channel 16 Maritime Risk Blog is your free resource for insights and analysis on maritime risks, safety, and cyber security for the maritime professional.
Security conditions across two critical maritime theatres have deteriorated sharply, with the Strait of Hormuz and English Channel both showing signs of heightened operational risk.
Dryad Global has launched Verihelm™, its next-generation maritime intelligence platform designed to help organisations understand where global trade flows are…
The latest Dryad Global Maritime Intelligence Brief highlights a rapidly shifting maritime security environment across two of the world’s most strategically…
The Indian Ocean carries a large share of the world's energy and trade, and almost all of it funnels through a handful of narrow chokepoints. That geography…
The Strait of Hormuz is the most consequential stretch of water in global energy. Around 20 million barrels of oil and petroleum liquids pass through it every…
Maritime risk is no longer defined by one threat at a time. Two patterns are intensifying together: armed piracy is reasserting itself in the western Indian…
Ukraine's campaign against Russia's "shadow fleet" of sanctioned oil tankers has stopped being a Black Sea problem. In December 2025, Ukraine's Security…
For most of the past decade, Somali piracy was treated as a solved problem. Sustained naval patrols, hardened merchant shipping and a collapse in successful…
A weapon most operators had filed under twentieth-century naval history has returned to one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. Across 2025, a run of…
