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The US and UK have designated four senior Houthi leaders for involvement in Red Sea attacks. Traffic in the waterway has plummeted since the militants began attacking commercial ships in November. With Bridget Lloyd's List #Sanctions #Houthis lloydslist.com/articles/2024/…

Black Sea is getting weird. Seeing some serious deviations in normal sailing patterns for vessels destined for Novorossiysk. The fear of a Ukrainian naval offensive is likely the cause lloydslist.com/LL1148573/Novo…

Excited to see that our Scripps News + Bellingcat doc (with Yörük Işık, Bridget & Ollie Ballinger) has been named a finalist for the mid-form category at Centre for Information Resilience's inaugural Open Source Film Awards. In some great company as well! Link to video: youtube.com/watch?v=3KsICB…

Baltimore data: on average approx. 6 cargo-carrying vessels passed under the Francis Scott Key bridge every day this month. The port itself handles mainly vehicle carriers, bulk carriers and containerships. Average monthly arrivals totals 155. Ships seen stopping and rerouting

An interesting and slightly alarming development

A Russian vessel was granted clearance by a UN inspection body to call at a Houthi-controlled port in Yemen after surreptitiously exporting grain from occupied Crimea, an investigation by Bellingcat and @lloydslist finds. bellingcat.com/news/2024/07/1…

Houthi threat leads to rise in dark transits across Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea lloydslist.com/LL1150018/Hout…

Proud to see our Bellingcat & Scripps News investigation, in partnership with Bridget at Lloyd's List, Ollie Ballinger and Yörük Işık, looking into Russia's tactics at illegally exporting grain from occupied Ukraine has won a Murrow award: rtdna.org/2024-national-…

Bab el Mandeb transits see first meaningful increase since start of Red Sea crisis lloydslist.com/LL1150509/Bab-…

The spate of Russian attacks on Ukraine's greater Odesa ports last month, which saw several vessels damaged, has not discouraged carriers from calling to the Black Sea ports. However, it has forced seaborne trade offline. lloydslist.com/LL1151546/Ukra…

Remember Sig? It's back online and heading for Astrakhan

Taiwan cable cutting: confused about the identity of the accused ship? That's because one vessel was using three different digital identities lloydslist.com/LL1152160/Taiw…

Dark fleet tactics evolve as tankers take on multiple interchangeable digital identities lloydslist.com/LL1152189/Dark…

I told Bridget that although some restrictions have been removed by the US, and soon others, for humanitarian reasons, risks remain high when it comes to trading with #Syria. A whole new governing system is still being introduced. lloydslist.com/LL1152414/Syri… #Shipping

The acceleration in flag hopping—to unprecedented levels—is a reflection of the increasing agility and sophistication of deceptive actors, explains UANI's Claire Jungman. Bridget reports for Lloyd's List. lloydslist.com/LL1153276/Flag… #UANIShipping

Surge in stealthy tanker visits highlights Dongying’s growing valve role for bypassing sanctioned oil trade lloydslist.com/LL1154014/Surg…

Sanctioned tankers are conducting ship-to-ship transfers so ‘clean’ vessels can deliver shipments from Russia’s Far East ports lloydslist.com/LL1154016/Nakh…

A tanker acquired by the UN for $55m to prevent a massive oil spill off Yemen is essentially being used by the #Houthis as floating storage for Russian oil, while costs for running the vessel are still being fronted by the UN. The UN purchased the VLCC Yemen in 2023 as part of