Shadow Fleet Interdiction Starts With Flag Verification
At a Glance What Factors Go Into a Shadow Fleet Boarding Decision Six times since September 2025, French Navy boarding teams have gone aboard a suspected shadow fleet tanker. The latest came on October 12, 2026, when the Marine Nationale boarded DF PEAK more than 450 nautical miles south of Réunion on suspicion of sailing…
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Iran Threatens the Hormuz Internet Cables: Four Gulf States Have No Subsea Route That Avoids the Strait
At a Glance Iran Named the Cables Before Naming the Targets On October 19, IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebbi told a ceremony in Tehran that seven major internet cables run beneath the Strait of Hormuz, and that new targets and new weapons would be unveiled. He added that this time the response would be much harsher….
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Maritime Domain Action in the Indo-Pacific Needs One Shared All-Source Picture
At a Glance Information Advantage Starts With a Picture Allies Can Share Talk of information advantage and allied interoperability comes down to one practical question: Can partners act together on a trusted picture of what is moving at sea, and why? Most do not, at least not yet. Each navy, coast guard, and agency holds…
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From Dark Voyages to Defensible Claims: How Marine Insurers Are Closing the Evidence Gap
At a Glance Claims Teams Are Now Reconstructing, Not Just Investigating Claims teams in marine insurance own two things: the loss investigation and the pay-or-reject decision. In the pre-2022 environment, both were largely a matter of establishing what happened, verifying that the loss fell within the policy’s coverage, and processing accordingly. AIS records, cargo documentation,…
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