KYIV, March 5 (Reuters) – Ukrainian sea drones hit and sank a Russian Black Sea Fleet patrol ship off occupied Crimea in an overnight attack, the Ukrainian military said on Tuesday. The…
https://gcaptain.com/ukraine-claims-sinking-of-russian-patrol-ship-near-crimea/
Insurance broker Marsh McLennan and Lloyd’s of London underwriters have expanded the Ukraine-backed marine war insurance programme from just grain shipments to all non-military cargo. The initial programme to cut claims costs for ship and crew damages during grain Black Sea transport was launched...
https://splash247.com/kyiv-fixes-insurance-for-more-black-sea-cargoes/
Saturday marks two years since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a war that has dramatically changed the global seaborne map, some argue irrevocably. Over the past 729 days, Russia has switched its shipments east, using all manner of subterfuge to keep oil and gas revenues high, while Ukraine has...
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...
One of Europe’s fast growing ports is embarking on an urgent dredging programme to accommodate the spillover from the ongoing war in neighbouring Ukraine. The Romanian government has approved a three-year $229m dredging plan across 400 ha at the Black Sea port of Constanta, When Russia backed out...
https://splash247.com/urgent-expansion-underway-at-romanias-top-port/
KYIV, Feb 14 (Reuters) – Ukraine destroyed a Russian landing warship off the coast of occupied Crimea in an operation with naval drones that breached the vessel’s port side on Wednesday and caused…
https://gcaptain.com/ukraine-claims-sinking-of-russian-landing-warship-in-black-sea/
Insurer SwissRe has come up with a chart to highlight the dramatic changes to the world seaborne map in recent years as shipping faces disruption in the Red and Black Seas as well as the Panama Canal. “Pressure on global shipping routes is creating stress in global supply chains again, soon after...
https://splash247.com/swissre-report-captures-the-extent-of-global-shipping-disruption/
February 24 will mark the second anniversary since Russia unleashed the largest attack on a European country since World War II. In that period of time Russian exports of oil and gas have diminished, but only by about a third with fossil fuel exports still making up around 45% of the federal...
https://splash247.com/ukraine-intensifies-russian-refinery-campaign/
Ukrainian forces conducted a drone attack on Russia’s largest Baltic port over the weekend. The operation, which used two long-range drones, resulted in a massive fire at Novatek’s gas terminal with all staff evacuated. Four tankers were moored at the port at the time of the attack. They quickly...
https://splash247.com/novateks-baltic-terminal-attacked-by-long-range-drones-from-ukraine/
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 […]
The...
https://www.bairdmaritime.com/ship-world/tanker-world/opinion-shipping-oil-through-troubled-waters/