Published Feb 3, 2026 10:45 AM by Capt. Patrick Molenda (USN, ret'd)
When the container ship Ever Given grounded itself across the Suez Canal in 2021, the economic shock spread far beyond the Middle...
Published Feb 1, 2026 5:15 PM by Erik Broekhuizen / Poten & Partners
Last week, in our annual forecasting opinion ("A Fool's Game?"), we prognosticated that the tanker orderbook will decline in 2026....
Published Feb 1, 2026 3:20 PM by John Nicholson
Inspection reports across much of the commercial fleet paint a reassuring picture. Fire detection systems are operational, fixed f...
Published Feb 1, 2026 2:46 PM by Dialogue Earth
[By Jiang Mengnan] China has joined Chile and Belgium in competing to host the secretariat of the High Seas Treaty. The landmark U...
Published Jan 28, 2026 9:43 PM by The Maritime Executive
President Trump has told an audience that "there's another beautiful armada floating beautifully toward Iran right now." Some comm...
Published Jan 26, 2026 4:18 PM by Priyatham Sanjeeva Reddy, Ramidi
On a calm March night in 2024, a containership outbound from Baltimore lost electrical power, struck a main pier of the Francis Sc...
Published Jan 26, 2026 2:59 PM by Irene Rosberg
For much of its modern history, the maritime industry treated geopolitics as background noise. Today, that is no longer possible....
Published Jan 26, 2026 10:52 AM by Andrei Grigoras
In the first week of January 2026, US and UK forces seized a Russian-flagged tanker in the North Atlantic. Finland detained a frei...
Published Jan 25, 2026 8:05 PM by CIMSEC
[By CDR Chase E. Harding, USN] The balance of power in the Indo-Pacific is shifting rapidly as China's shipbuilding hegemony endur...
Published Jan 25, 2026 3:17 PM by The Maritime Executive
President X Jinping appears to have completed his purge of senior officer in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), with a disproport...
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