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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.
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…
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…
The Taiwan Strait carries a large share of the world's container traffic and the bulk of the semiconductor trade that modern economies depend on. For a…
For shipowners, charterers and operators with exposure to the Black Sea, the Black Sea Grain Initiative was never just a humanitarian story. It was the single…
When Yemen's United Nations-brokered truce lapsed in October 2022, the immediate consequence was political: two warring sides walking away from the negotiating…
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, it did more than start a land war. It closed one of the world's most important grain and steel export corridors…
Drug trafficking is no longer a problem that sits at the edge of maritime operations. It runs straight through the commercial fleet. Traffickers move cocaine,…
