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Maritime security threats in the Middle East remain sky-high, GPS jamming remains severe, vessel operation patterns are changing (ships waiting outside the Gulf to reduce time in the region), idling ships, even some diversions. meantime the oil price is falling and tanker freight

At the U.S. Naval War College CIWAG Symposium, Windward’s Michelle Wiese Bockmann joined an expert panel with Daniel Tadros, Tomer Raanan & Dr. Geoffrey Till to examine the growing threat of the shadow fleet. Thank you to the Naval War College for hosting such an important event.

thanks so much to naval historian, What's Going on With Shipping host and all-round shipping guru and great guy Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️ for being my first guest for TradeSense. Sal has done more than most to help the general public understand shipping with his accessible and informative

It took a plane, bus, train and Uber to get to Newport RI to represent Windward for this event but it was well worth it! thanks so much to the Center on Irregular Wafare and Armed Group (CIWAG) for the invitation to participate in your annual symposium and to the Naval War

a must-read -- How to Build a Dark Fleet and Get Away with It -- a must read by C4ADS into the network of Chinese-owned tankers established since 2019 . pleased to see this important report involved collaboration with Windward

South Baltic sea is experiencing a newish type of GNSS-jamming. It is affecting units at sea level far and wide, much further than one ground based jammer can reach. The most intense attack so far took place as the political elite of Denmark and 100k visitors met at Bornholm.

Cell towers can be used as a radar system. Cell towers facing Kaliningrad from southeast Sweden are being sabotaged.

29 years ago today I said "Si" to the Panamanian judge and Neil G Wiese and I were married. (Neil was the Panama-based Latin American correspondent for the ABC back then. Panama was not only where we were married but where I got my start in the maritime sector working as a

🚩 Benin has officially entered the dark fleet map. Windward uncovered two VLCCs fraudulently flagged under Benin, a flag the IMO designates as false. One of them, Azelia, went dark after transiting the Singapore Strait. It's likely headed for Iran.🧵

A general cargo vessel calling at Gdansk, Poland, had its AIS signal jammed to appear in Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave. Less than two weeks earlier, another incident spoofed the same ship into Finnish waters while actually in Russia. 🧵

UPDATE FOR REIGATE FOLLOWERS: court appearance on July 7 for Nathan Snowball, accused of fraud and money laundering. Long time followers may remember my 2023 posts about Nathan Snowball, the dodgy Redhill & Reigate painter and decorator who (allegedly) used to take deposits for

UK's National Crime Agency issues red alert on shadow fleet evasion and avoidance network. There's a focus on Coral Energy (aka 2RIVERS DMCC and 2RIVERS PTE and Nord Axis) and traders' "special relationship" with Rosneft. nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/who-we-are/pub…

I've uncovered yet another fraudulent registry, this time in Benin -- adding to Aruba, Eswatini, Guinea, Guyana, Malawi, Curacao and St Maarten. all the details in free-to-read blog for Windward