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A voyage across the Indian Ocean can pass through several different risk environments, from piracy exposure in the Somali Basin to missile threats near…
Reviewed: 22 August 2026 The Strait of Hormuz carries a concentration of energy trade through a passage that has few practical substitutes. A disruption does…
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…
Reviewed: 22 August 2026 Environmental rules can change the cost of a voyage, the fuel a ship can use, the records it must produce and, in some circumstances,…
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…
