The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued sweeping sanctions against over 180 vessels and 170 companies connected to Russian energy exports, shadow fleet operations, maritime insurance, and oilfield services.  These actions are part of a broader effort to disrupt Russia’s revenue streams and target networks that enable sanctions evasion. The implications...

Taiwanese authorities have accused a Chinese freighter of cutting a subsea communications cable just off the coast of Keelung on January 3, 2025.  This latest critical underwater infrastructure incident, following three relatively recent underwater infrastructure disruptions in the Baltic Sea, is murky and involves identity tampering. Four seemingly different vessels, with different names, IMOs, MMSIs,...