Amazing! Lloyds chair takes tea with the widow of their murdered expert David Mockett but still insures the man who certainly ordered his assassination, Mario Iliopoulos.

lloydslist.com/LL1150366/Tank… Some 120 ships were tracked in danger zone yesterday, including 15 laden tankers, with six loaded from Russian Baltic and Black Sea ports that would have had options to reroute around the Cape of Good Hope

lloydslist.com/LL1150291/Lloy… A MARINE insurer backed by syndicates at Lloyd’s of London provided cover to tanker Ceres I (IMO: 9229439), the 23-year-old vessel shipping Iranian oil that was involved in a collision with another vessel in July. Cyprus-based São Tomé and Principe

lloydslist.com/LL1150382/Naur… SHIPOWNERS transporting sanctioned oil and gas have unsuccessfully sought flag refuge in Nauru as US regulators increase designations against Russia and Iran. Nauru’s maritime authority recently refused registration sought by the anonymous owners of Bitu

We are delighted to announce that Michelle Wiese Bockmann , Principal Analyst at Lloyd's List Intelligence, will be joining Vortexa’s analyst team discussion at Innovation Series London as a special speaker for an exclusive insights session 🌟🇬🇧 Join our event in central London:

There's so much to update about energy commodities and geopolitics and I'll be delivering the latest at this event....

thanks to Yörük Işık for this insight into what I call the "Bosporus paint job": aka the rough -and-ready visible name changes on ships as they sail through the Bosporus. the fact that many are transporting Russia-laden oil or Ukrainian plundered wheat ... well draw your own

The The Washington Post's take on Ceres I, in which myself & maritime analysts from @vortexa and @kpler, Spire Maritime, @imralby agree that this ship was likely spoofing its location at time of collision, a long-time shipper of Iranian oil to China and undertaking deceptive shipping

Happy 5th anniversary Preston Turnbull it’s a vibe!

I'm flying out to Athens later today to speak at a conference about geopolitical risk in shipping and the Red Sea crisis. I wanted some fresh angles to include in my talk so one of the things I decided to do was interrogate the data from the 83 Houthi attacks we've logged at

So long Athens, it’s been a blast even though the closest I got to the acropolis was my hotel room balcony. Thanks Fastmarkets Metals & Mining for inviting me to speak at your conference

It's not often I write 4 stories in a day but today was one. It started with a statement from Hafnia about the July 19 collision with Iran-linked, dark fleet tanker Ceres I on July 19. Surprisingly (not), Hafnia cannot "directly communicate" with the beneficial owner, shipmanager