Securing the Strait: The Need to Reclaim the Disputed Islands

Published Mar 23, 2026 11:05 AM by The Maritime Executive

Predictably, given that their control over the Strait of Hormuz is their strongest negotiating card, the Iranian regime has ignore...

Op-Ed: Arctic Metagaz Explosion Shows That LNG Carriers Have Risks

A recent explosive event involving a liquified natural gas (LNG) carrier laden with Russian Arctic gas should serve as a wake up c...

Published Mar 20, 2026 3:29 PM by The Maritime Executive

Close attention is being paid to two tankers, which observers suspected were heading toward Cuba in a Russian effort to provide so...

Published Mar 19, 2026 7:04 PM by The Maritime Executive

Hapag-Lloyd has become the latest among the largest carriers to map out a strategy of cooperation and expansion with India. The li...

Published Mar 19, 2026 1:39 PM by The Maritime Executive

Two weeks after suffering a container stack collapse in the Pacific Ocean, the ultra-large containership OOCL Sunflower was escort...

Published Mar 18, 2026 4:36 PM by The Maritime Executive

Four weeks after stopping a containership that was suspected of not being correctly registered, Danish authorities continue to hol...

Published Mar 18, 2026 3:02 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Trump administration has temporarily waived the Jones Act for select liquid bulk and dry bulk cargoes, allowing foreign seafar...

Published Mar 18, 2026 2:19 PM by The Maritime Executive

Days after Cuba suffered one of its worst electrical blackouts due in part to the U.S. energy blockade of the island, two tankers...

Published Mar 17, 2026 6:00 PM by Shaan Burton

The war with Iran has reached critical levels with an increase in direct attacks on commercial container vessels. As of March 11 2...

Published Mar 17, 2026 5:42 PM by The Maritime Executive

Japan is reporting another incident in which a fishing vessel was struck by an inter-island cargo vessel in the busy sea lanes aro...