The UK government, in co-ordinated action with G7 partners to support Ukraine, recently announced 50 new sanctions designations and specifications to degrade Russia’s ability to wage war. New targets include ships in Russia’s “shadow fleet”, institutions at the heart of Russia’s financial system,...
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Ukraine to receive Swedish assault boats as military aid
Swedish news outlet SVT Nyheter reports that the Swedish government will hand over ten fast assault craft to Ukraine as part of a military aid package. The vessels to be handed over are all CB90-class fast interceptors originally built by Dockstavarvet for the Swedish Armed Forces. The military aid...
OPINION | Russia’s shadow tanker fleet runs into trouble
Barring new evasive techniques by Kremlin technocrats, the rapid rise in Russia’s shadow tanker fleet since the Ukraine war may be reversing as pressure is brought to bear on India and other countries that have discreetly helped Russia beat oil and gas shipping sanctions. The agency waging its own...
OPINION | Shipping oil through troubled waters
Attacks on shipping in the Red Sea have had almost no impact on the oil price, despite the volume of oil shipped through the waterway surging 80 per cent over the last two years because of the war in the Ukraine. Markets more worried about a soft global economy and rising US and Brazilian oil […]
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Turkey blocks passage of ex-British minehunters bound for Ukraine
The Turkish government has prohibited the intended passage of two ex-UK Royal Navy mine countermeasures vessels to Ukraine via the Turkish straits of the Black Sea. According to a statement issued by the country’s Directorate of Communications on Tuesday, January 2, the government has closed the...
Ukraine claims foreign ship damaged by Russian missile strike on Black Sea port
Military officials in Ukraine have reported that a Russian missile struck a foreign-flagged commercial vessel, resulting in one death and four injuries, shortly after it entered a port in the Odesa region on the country’s Black Sea coast on Wednesday, November 8. Officials said the...
OPINION | Russia, a Chinese cargo ship and the sabotage of subsea cables in the Baltic Sea
Earlier this month, as the world’s attention was focused on the horror unfolding in Israel and Gaza, it was easy to miss the news that two subsea telecommunications cables and a gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea had been damaged. On the night of October 7, the 77-kilometre Balticconnector gas pipeline...
Gastech In Singapore – A Celebration Of The LNG Sector
Gastech 2023 took place at a time when the LNG industry is helping mitigate the impact of a war in Europe and championing decarbonisation, reports loadstar.
Russian – Ukraine warFor the organisers of Gastech 2023, which took place in the first week of September in Singapore, the event was a triumph. Due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there were fewer Russian companies in attendance, but the war in Europe has opened the way for other suppliers, which were much in evidence.
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OPINION | “Same, same but different”: assessing ASEAN’s and the EU’s maritime strategies
The emergence of the Indo-Pacific concept shows the cardinal role oceans play in shaping international politics. While synergies are created by the notional confluence of the Indian and the Pacific Oceans, these waters contain some of the world’s most sensitive flashpoints for conflicts that could have monumental consequences. In that context, the South China Sea […]
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COLUMN | Asymmetrical warfare drives shift in dynamic of sea combat off Ukraine [Naval Gazing]
Offshore aspects of the Russia-Ukraine conflict have brought into sharp focus the rising profile of asymmetrical naval warfare, with uncrewed surface vehicles (USV) assuming a dominant role. Russia has deployed warships of its Black Sea Fleet in support of a three-pronged maritime strategy, focused on offshore blockade enforcement, the launching from seaward of land attack […]
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