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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…
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…
The maritime risk picture for 2025 is defined less by any single flashpoint than by the way several threats now reinforce one another. State conflict,…
For most of the last decade, the Gulf of Guinea was the most dangerous piracy hotspot in the world. By the early 2020s it accounted for the overwhelming…
Ask whether a cyber attack can seize control of a ship and the honest answer is layered: not as easily as a film would suggest, but more readily than many…
For any operator running tankers, offshore supply vessels or survey ships through the South China Sea, the energy dispute between China and its neighbours is…
