GEOPOLITICAL INSTABILITY

A museum-quality ship model rests beside an empty, slightly worn glass display case on a maritime conservator's workbench. Carelessly discarded gloves, subtle dust, and an unfinished workspace evoke a moment of transition, where established practice is giving way to a new operating reality

Geopolitics is no longer a risk. It is the environment

02/07/202602/07/2026

Shipping has changed the way it thinks about risk. The 2025–2026 ICS Maritime Barometer documents not a new threat at the top of the rankings, but a new logic altogether

GEOPOLITICAL INSTABILITY

Geopolitics is no longer a risk. It is the environment

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