Channel 16 Maritime Risk Intelligence

Supply Chain 4 min read

Dryad Global launches Verihelm™ to help organisations track disruption to global trade flows

Dryad Global has launched Verihelm™, its next-generation maritime intelligence platform designed to help organisations understand where global trade flows are exposed to disruption, where pressure is building, and what that could mean for operations, supply chains and commercial risk.

Dryad Global June 25, 2026

black sea 1 min read

Black Sea Escalation and Hormuz Tensions Shape This Week’s Maritime Risk Picture

The latest Dryad Global Maritime Intelligence Brief highlights a rapidly shifting maritime security environment across two of the world’s most strategically…

Dryad Global June 23, 2026

Indian Ocean 8 min read

Indian Ocean maritime security: a guide for operators

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…

Meredyth Grant June 18, 2026

Regional & threat intelligence 8 min read

Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf: a maritime security guide

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…

Meredyth Grant June 18, 2026

Regional & threat intelligence 4 min read

Resurgent Piracy and Grey-Zone Pressure: Why Maritime Risk Is Compounding

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…

Meredyth Grant June 16, 2026

black sea 4 min read

Ukraine's long-range drones reach the Mediterranean: what it means for shipping risk

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…

Meredyth Grant June 07, 2026

Regional & threat intelligence 4 min read

Somali Basin piracy: the deep-offshore surge operators cannot ignore

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…

Meredyth Grant May 28, 2026

Regional & threat intelligence 4 min read

Limpet Mine Attacks in the Mediterranean: A New Era of Hull Sabotage

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…

Meredyth Grant May 15, 2026

Regional & threat intelligence 4 min read

Environmental compliance is now operational risk

Environmental compliance used to be a back-office concern: file the right paperwork, hold the right certificates, satisfy the surveyor. That era is over. A…

Meredyth Grant May 02, 2026