Decks and Deals Weekly #38
The week of March 29 to April 4, 2026 brought a missile into Qatari sovereign waters, the first Western vessel through the Strait of Hormuz, and bunker prices that rewrote their record book
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Decks and Deals Weekly #8
Global shipping rates crashed to 20-month lows between August 30 and September 5, while POSCO eyes $5 billion HMM acquisition and Trump threatens tariffs over IMO emissions deal
Lion out of necessity: Shay Gal on Türkiye, Houthis, and Mediterranean deterrence
Israeli strategic advisor Shay Gal, an expert in crisis management and defense, exposes the hidden tensions of the Mediterranean. From Türkiye’s proxy maneuvers to Houthi threats, he maps deterrence and survival
Decks and Deals Weekly #3
A global shipping overview from July 28 to August 1, 2025, as maritime sanctions intensify, Houthi attacks escalate, and collapsing freight rates expose the fragile intersection of geopolitics, trade flows, and fleet expansion
Trump’s price tag on the Red Sea effort collides with shipping realities
The U.S. bombed Yemen to reopen the Red Sea, but shipowners remain unconvinced. Trump wants Europe to pay for the effort, yet global trade has already adapted
Norman Roule: “The Houthis and Iran now have the capacity to touch the global economy”
The Senior Advisor to the Counter Extremism Project, “United Against Nuclear Iran, the Nuclear Threat Initiative”, Norman Roule talks about the developments in the Middle East and how these affect future geopolitical reclassification as well as global shipping