Join Michelle Wiese Bockmann and Windward’s experts for a five-part series of executive briefings decoding the maritime shifts that defined 2025, and delivering the intelligence leaders need to navigate 2026 with confidence.
As 2025 gives way to 2026, global oil and gas trades are recalibrating for the third time in five years amid escalating tariffs and sanctions. New EU and UK import bans and restrictions on Rosneft and Lukoil are redrawing routes, tightening logistics, and injecting dark flows into the global system. Energy commodities and shipping remain on the frontline of sanctions, tariffs, and trade wars, with the dark fleet posing growing risks to global flows.
In this session, Michelle Wiese Bockmann examined how predictive analytics equips traders to anticipate volatility, track shifting routes, and stay ahead as enforcement and markets evolve into 2026.
Sanctions evaders are outpacing enforcement, and the gap is widening. The integrity of global trade is increasingly at risk as dark fleets operate outside the international rules-based order, moving sanctioned cargoes through opaque ownership and deceptive routing.
In this executive briefing, discover how maritime AI empowers U.S. federal agencies, regulators, and compliance teams to expose concealed networks, track evasive fleet movements, and neutralize emerging threats before they compromise national and economic security.
Melting ice, contested trade routes, and rising threats to undersea cables and pipelines are transforming the Arctic and Indo-Pacific into the frontlines of global maritime security. As climate change, great-power competition, and critical infrastructure risks converge, the balance between economic ambition and national defense grows increasingly fragile.
In this executive briefing, Michelle Wiese Bockmann explored how these pressures are testing global readiness and driving a new era of foresight, coordination, and resilience across strategic waters.
With nearly 20% of the global tanker fleet now sanctioned and oil flows growing darker, traditional exposure models are under strain.
In this session, Michelle Wiese Bockmann examined the challenges for marine insurers in managing geopolitical disruption and identifying deceptive shipping practices. She also explored how behavioral intelligence is reshaping maritime risk management in 2026.
On December 10, U.S. commandos seized a sanctions-evading supertanker off Venezuela’s coast, the first interdiction of its kind. The Skipper was carrying nearly 2 million barrels of illicit crude, spoofing its location and flying a false flag. More seizures are expected within weeks.
This security briefing with Michelle Wiese Bockmann cuts through the noise to answer the questions that matter.