Windward’s Russia Risk Insights is a monthly update on risk at sea, offering an overview of any emerging behavioral trends in developing hubs prone to illicit activity in the context of the extended sanctions on Russia. The new January 2023 insights from Windward’s Russia Risk Report continue to show how the West is still avoiding…

The West’s price cap on Russian crude oil can be defined as a success up until this point when measured against its two main goals:  Reuters notes that Urals and KEBCO crude oil loadings from Ust-Luga, Russia’s Baltic port,  during Feb. 1-10 could increase to 1 million tons from 0.9 million in the plan for…

As we start 2023, major supply chain “woes” have been alleviated, the major crises that affected the supply chain in the last few years have come to an end, and the supply chain is slowly getting back to some sort of “normal.”  The major priorities for this year are making operations efficient and minimizing avoidable…

Maritime outlets briefly covered the recent three-ton cocaine bust off the Western Sahara coast earlier this week. A cargo vessel was intercepted and seized by a joint police, civil guard, and customs team on January 18 off the Western Sahara coast, and taken to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, on suspicion of drug trafficking. By looking…