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“Front Gaula,” which was delivered from the South Korean Hyundai shipyard in 2022, is one of 41 VLCC-class tankers that Frontline owns and operates. 13 of them are named after Norwegian rivers

Timing the tide

As crude tankers meander through volatile geopolitics and erratic rates, Frontline’s unflinching allegiance to the spot market raises both brows and returns—depending, of course, on one’s appetite for sea-induced turbulence

Children walking and playing in muddy puddles at a refugee camp with tents in Idlib, Syria

Twilight over Damascus

After the dramatic fall of Bashar al-Assad, Syria enters a turbulent new era under Ahmed al-Sharaa. While hopes for reform rise, sectarian tensions, foreign influences, and deep economic scars persist

Aerial view of shipping containers parked in neat rows, immobile and waiting—a snapshot of paused logistics and uncertain trade flows

When tariffs pretend to be strategy

While Beijing and Washington perform a diplomatic duet, the dissonance of economic nationalism and political theatrics drowns out any harmony. Trade deals, it seems, are now stage props in electoral melodramas

High-tech BYD automotive factory with robotic arms assembling car bodies in a modern, automated production line

Beijing on the Danube

Hungary’s unapologetic embrace of China defies Washington’s pressure, all while Viktor Orbán bets on economic alchemy to deliver political dividends by 2026—and maybe a second EV revolution

A close-up photograph of a small pile of white powder, presumably cocaine, on a smooth gray surface. The powder appears crystalline and clumped together, illuminated dramatically from above creating shadows beneath it

The hidden highways of the Sahel

As the Sahel and North Africa spiral deeper into instability, narcotraffickers carve out new routes across the desert, leveraging chaos for profit

Turkish Minister Uraloğlu seated among European officials at the 2025 Three Seas Initiative Summit in Warsaw

A bridge too shrewd to miss

Türkiye eyes a starring role in the Three Seas Initiative. Not out of charity, but calculation. Ankara plays infrastructure like a violin—bow steady, strings taut, audience captive

The MV COSCO Sheng Shi, a Pure Car and Truck Carrier (PCTC), docked at the Piraeus Port car terminal in Greece, launching a new regular vehicle shipping service between China and Europe

China’s car carrier diplomacy docks in Piraeus

The arrival of the MV COSCO Sheng Shi in Piraeus marks more than a shipping milestone. It cements the port’s role as China’s European vehicle hub—and thrusts Greece deeper into the storm of great-power competition