Black Sea War Risk Insurance Soars 250% After Ship Attacks December 3, 2025 By Alex Longley, Leonard Kehnscherper and Irina Vilcu Insurance rates for ships calling at ports in the Black Sea are surging after a series of Ukrainian attacks on...
Yet Another Russia-Linked Tanker Gets Attacked in the Black Sea December 2, 2025 By Patrick Sykes and Firat Kozok A fourth Russia-connected tanker in under a week was attacked on Tuesday, a sharp uptick in strikes on Moscow-associated shipping...
Black Sea Shipping Insurance Rates Rise After Ukraine Attacks on Tankers, Sources Say December 2, 2025 By Jonathan Saul The cost of shipping commodities through the Black Sea climbed on Monday after Ukrainian naval drones hit two tankers heading...
Third Russia-Linked Oil Tanker Suffers Explosions at Sea December 1, 2025 By Alex Longley, Firat Kozok and Katarina Höije An oil tanker carrying diesel suffered four external explosions near Dakar, Senegal, its manager said, the third vessel with links...
UK to Ban Maritime Services for Russian LNG Exports November 12, 2025 Britain plans to ban companies from providing services such as shipping and insurance for Russian liquefied natural gas exports, in...
Reuters: Iran, Russia and the New Zealand Insurer That Kept Sanctioned Oil Flowing October 28, 2025 By Paul Carsten, Lucy Craymer, Gleb Stolyarov and Anna Hirtenstein Last Christmas, the tanker Yug cruised out of the Chinese port of Qingdao after offloading 2 million barrels of sanctioned...
EU’s New Sanctions Boost Allies’ Push to Hit Russian Energy October 24, 2025 By Jorge Valero, Alberto Nardelli and Suzanne Lynch The European Union adopted a new package of sanctions targeting Russia’s energy infrastructure, building on new US and UK moves...
Poland, Romania Foil Russian Exploding Parcels Plot, Warsaw Says October 21, 2025 By Pawel Florkiewicz Poland and Romania detained eight people suspected of planning sabotage on behalf of Russia, authorities in Warsaw said on Tuesday,...
EU Seeks Maritime Declaration to Inspect Russia’s ‘Shadow Fleet’ October 20, 2025 The European Union’s diplomatic arm, the EEAS, is urging member states to back a maritime declaration that would allow EU...
UK Sanctions Russia’s Lukoil and Rosneft, Targets Shadow Fleet October 15, 2025 By Sam Tabahriti and Muvija M Britain targeted Russia’s two largest oil companies, Lukoil and Rosneft, and 44 shadow fleet tankers on Wednesday in what it...