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…
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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 any maritime business, a sanctions screening programme is only as good as the lists it screens against. A counterparty, a vessel, a beneficial owner or a…
Fixing a vessel, lending against a cargo or underwriting a voyage now carries a question that did not trouble operators a decade ago: is anyone in this chain…
Boarding and unauthorised access remain among the most persistent threats a merchant ship faces, whether alongside a high-risk terminal, swinging at an exposed…
Maritime security (MARSEC) levels are the common language that tells a ship and a port facility how much protective security to apply at any given moment.…
Putting armed guards aboard a merchant ship is one of the most consequential decisions a shipowner or master can take. Done properly, a vetted team of…
If your vessel is routed through a piracy or armed-robbery hotspot, Best Management Practices (BMP) is the single most important piece of guidance you will…