Sanctions

No panic in Monaco as Trump tariffs rattle markets

Good Morning Monaco

Friday, April 11, 2025

No panic in Monaco as Trump tariffs rattle markets As global markets react to Donald Trump’s latest tariff announcements, Monaco residents are being reassured that there’s no cause for concern – yet…

London slips to sixth place as global wealth shifts London has fallen out of the world’s top five wealthiest cities for the first time, after losing more millionaires in the past decade than any other global centre…

Monaco champions inclusive sport at United...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/04/11/no-panic-in-monaco-as-trump-tariffs-rattle-markets/

Death of Diplomacy – part 3

by John Faraclas

Further to part 2, we are faced with undiplomatic and in some cases undemocratic manoeuvres – that the bargaining chips in what one might generously call “the new diplomacy” are tariff threats and… migrant flows and expulsions.

Moreover, the death throes of diplomacy turns out to have been a warning that the rules of global trade were going to be rewritten, too –and now it seems that there are no such rules any more.

Without genuine diplomacy, where do things stand between...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/04/08/death-of-diplomacy-part-3/

Sanctioned Russian Arctic LNG Project Awakens After Winter With Gas Flaring Visible at Both Production Lines

Russia has apparently turned the lights back on at its sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 plant. Images taken by the European Sentinel 2 satellite reveal flaring at both production lines, Train 1 and Train 2, as well as the adjacent main flare. 

https://gcaptain.com/sanctioned-russian-arctic-lng-project-awakens-after-winter-with-gas-flaring-visible-at-both-production-lines/

Fighting for Freedom of Navigation

by Steven Jones MNM FRSA AFNI

Admiral Pavlopoulos’s illuminating presentation at the 2nd Maritime Security Conference provided a sobering assessment of the current threats to maritime security, particularly along what he termed the “axis of war and turbulence” stretching from the Black Sea to the Red Sea. His observation that “TRUST has to be restored” in these vital shipping corridors prompted reflection on the fundamental importance of freedom of navigation in our global system.

While his...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/04/07/fighting-for-freedom-of-navigation/

Market Report: Stocks fall further as global game of tariff chess gathers pace

Derren Nathan
  • FTSE 100 and European futures down
  • US Stocks see worst drop in 5 years
  • US treasury yields at 7-month highs
  • Japan promises bold and speedy response to US tariffs
  • EU trade commissioner in talks with Washington today
  • 3-year low for Brent Crude at around $69.5 per barrel

Derren Nathan, head of equity research Hargreaves Lansdown:

“Despite months of sabre-rattling by Donald Trump, markets appear to have been unprepared for the depth and breadth of tariffs announced by the White House....

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/04/04/market-report-stocks-fall-further-as-global-game-of-tariff-chess-gathers-pace/

How American Sanctions may affect he Global Shipping Industry

J. Bruce Chan

President Donald Trump has already made plenty of headlines since taking up his second term in the White House, including with the announcement of numerous new tariffs on imports.

The 47th United States President issued three executive orders on February 1st 2025, just days after his inauguration, which directed the US to impose an additional 25 per cent ad valorem rate of duty on imports from Canada and Mexico, as well as ten per cent on imports from China.

Leading 20ft shipping...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/04/03/how-american-sanctions-may-affect-he-global-shipping-industry/

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