Shareholders approved a billion-dollar premium. Striking workers locked their own chairman out of the building. Now eight government bodies prepare to say no. Inside the ZIM sale Jerusalem seems determined to sink
The week of 21–28 June 2026 delivered a drone strike on a trapped Evergreen vessel, a 39% VLCC rate collapse, container shipping’s third-largest spike in history, and a ceasefire that kept shooting
While the world fixes its gaze on the Strait of Hormuz, Black Sea shipping is living through its own escalation cycle, quieter, older, and arguably more structurally dangerous for commercial operators
As competition in the Indo-Pacific intensifies, maritime security, trade routes and China’s growing influence are pushing India steadily closer to the United States
The industry has a new consensus word. What nobody is saying out loud is what it costs — and who pays when freight rates can no longer carry the weight
The Strait of Hormuz no longer shapes markets through disruption alone. It shapes them through anticipation, hesitation, memory, and the rising global cost of uncertainty
Steve Bannon warned that future geopolitical conflicts will center on control of sea routes, highlighting U.S.–China rivalry, strategic maritime zones, and Greece’s key role in global shipping
From the pandemic to the Black Sea, the Red Sea, and now the Strait of Hormuz, the sea is no longer the stable space of circulation that global trade once took for granted
Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz open for commercial shipping — then reversed course thirty hours later. The Notice to Mariners it published tells a different story than the headlines did
Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz fully open yesterday. Stocks surged, oil prices fell, and headlines celebrated. The tankers, however, did not move