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Editorial illustration of a Greek island port, passenger ferry and European maritime routes, with underwater cables and digital surveillance systems symbolising critical infrastructure resilience

Analysis

Port security and resilience: new European priorities and challenges for Greece

Europe’s new maritime priorities are redefining port security and resilience. For Greece, the challenge extends beyond major commercial gateways to the infrastructure sustaining island connectivity, economic activity and territorial cohesion

27/10/2026

Overhead view of colourful tugboats and work vessels moored beside an industrial quay, with yellow lifting equipment on deck

Maritime Industry

Decks and Deals Weekly #54

25/10/2026

Large red bulk carrier alongside an industrial iron ore terminal, surrounded by tugboats beneath towering orange cranes

Market

Capesize rates surge 16.68% as Kamsarmaxes sink in a divided dry bulk market

26/10/2026

Aerial view of a lone red product tanker crossing dark blue waters, leaving a white wake behind it

Maritime Industry

Product tanker earnings explode as cargo volumes collapse

20/10/2026

Conceptual illustration of a container port integrated into a circuit board, with a disconnected Ethernet cable symbolizing cybersecurity vulnerabilities and potential operational disruption

Ports can fall without a shot: Dr Sotiris Theofanis on the cyber threat

13/10/2026

Editorial illustration of a distant vessel above a scarred seabed, suggesting deliberate selection among vulnerable submarine cable routes

When the adversary chooses the failure

27/08/2026

Erdoğan, Mohammed bin Salman and Sharif holding signed copies of the Mecca Pact in Mecca, Saudi Arabia

The Mecca Pact meets the Hellenic triangle, and both want Cairo

17/08/2026

Bulk carrier alongside Kavala’s Philippos II commercial terminal, with mobile harbour cranes and cargo-handling equipment on the quayside

Port2Port

A.P. Moller Capital enters Kavala: could Maersk reshape Northern Greece’s port map?

20/10/2026

Conceptual illustration of Piraeus container terminal, where a towering orange gantry crane lifts an empty container frame casting an oversized shadow resembling stacked containers across the quay

Port2Port

Piraeus: higher profits, fewer containers

15/10/2026

Editorial illustration of fragmented railway tracks separated by gaps, with a red freight container waiting before the disconnected network

Supply Chain

Rail corridors: ports do not create corridors, connections do

24/09/2026

Two melting clocks in a sparse desert landscape, one more solid and one dripping black oil, representing contrasting oil strategies and timelines

Two clocks, one cartel: The UAE OPEC exit and the Sunni Gulf’s real fault line

02/05/2026

Aerial view of solar farm in Tengger Desert, Ningxia, China, November 2024

The war for oil in a world that is leaving it behind

06/03/2026

Expansive petrochemical refinery complex in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, featuring tall distillation columns, cranes, dense pipelines, and heavy industrial structures

Global oil at risk—and China feels the pressure first

03/03/2026

Minimalist editorial illustration of an oil tanker crossing a blue-grey sea, casting an enormous shadow resembling a bank vault door

Geopolitics

Russia’s shadow fleet enters a new geopolitical phase

22/10/2026

$Conceptual illustration of a fractured chessboard collapsing into a dark abyss, with data centers falling from its edges. A solitary black chess piece remains standing beneath a vast red sun against a muted beige sky, symbolizing financial instability and the geopolitical struggle for control of artificial intelligence infrastructure$

Strategic Technology

AI’s $3.5 trillion trap: who will control the digital future?

21/10/2026

An empty industrial weighbridge at a container terminal, with its weight indicator pointing into the red zone

Politics & Economy

Chinese ports break a record as Washington rewinds the tariff clock

30/09/2026

Gadi Taub, wearing round glasses and a light blue shirt, sits thoughtfully before bookshelves, with a podcast microphone in the foreground

Gadi Taub: “Netanyahu will not leave before bringing down the Iranian regime”

24/10/2026

Portrait of Sinan Ülgen, EDAM director and Carnegie Europe senior fellow, discussing Türkiye’s regional strategy and Eastern Mediterranean tensions

Sinan Ülgen: “Greece–Israel partnership is viewed in Ankara as an axis to counter Türkiye”

10/10/2026

Xiaoyu Lu, professor at Peking University’s School of International Studies, pictured outdoors in an academic setting

Xiaoyu Lu: “A China–U.S. clash is entirely avoidable — and the decisive choice lies largely in Washington”

26/09/2026

Portrait of Ali Alfoneh, senior fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute and expert on Iranian politics

From micromanager to collective rule: Ali Alfoneh on Iran after Khamenei

22/08/2026

GeoTrends Analysis

A tanker sails across a calm blue sea, leaving behind a widening trail of cracked, barren earth instead of water, symbolising the depletion of oil reserves and the erosion of future energy security

The oil market is borrowing time from the future

17/10/2026

More than 2 billion barrels of lost Middle Eastern production expose the fragility of energy security, shrinking safety margins and shipping’s increasingly strategic role in global oil supply

Conceptual illustration of a container ship crossing the ocean, its wake transforming into a flowing ribbon entering a black cube, symbolising AI’s growing control over maritime knowledge

AI and the battle for shipping’s knowledge

16/10/2026

Artificial intelligence promises to transform shipping. But as algorithms absorb decades of maritime expertise, a more consequential battle is emerging over who controls the knowledge that gives companies their competitive edge

Beyond Borders

Abstract GeoTrends illustration of a world map formed entirely by tankers, with intense shipping concentrations linking the Middle East to China, the Atlantic to Europe, and the Black Sea to the Mediterranean

Where the tankers go oil power follows

George S. Skordilis 07/10/2026

Dada-inspired editorial collage featuring oversized AfD lettering alongside USA, Russland, China, Türkei, Ukraine, Realpolitik, and “Im deutschen Interesse”

If the AfD ruled Germany: a foreign policy blueprint

Dimitris B. Peponis 01/10/2026

Editorial illustration of Venezuela’s emerging Atlantic maritime economy, combining port infrastructure, merchant shipping, oil facilities, urban activity and trade

Venezuela: the Atlantic’s next maritime play?

Iakovos (Jack) Archontakis 16/09/2026

Gold three-dimensional maritime-inspired typography reading “THE TIME IS ALWAYS NOW” on a dark wooden wall with a ship emblem beneath

Digital transformation in shipping: why we cannot afford to wait any longer

Capt. George Papanelopoulos 28/07/2026