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Ship managers and agents use transit risk assessments to align shore teams, the Master and port stakeholders around one current view of a voyage. A leg-by-leg assessment identifies where exposure …

Sanctions screening is no longer a one-time fixture check, it's a continuous compliance requirement as regulatory lists change, vessel ownership shifts, and shadow-fleet indicators evolve throughout a voyage's lifecycle. Why …

A transit risk assessment helps a ship owner understand where risk changes across a planned voyage, what is driving the change and when the route or operating plan may need …

Underwriting does not need another map. It needs evidence that can be interrogated. Marine insurers now have access to an expanding range of vessel databases, tracking services, threat feeds, sanctions …

Recent comments from the leadership of Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd reflect a shift across the maritime risk landscape. Geopolitical disruption remains a serious concern, particularly around strategic chokepoints. Yet for many …

Reviewed: 22 August 2026 A voyage across the Indian Ocean can pass through several different risk environments, from piracy exposure in the Somali Basin to missile threats near Bab-el-Mandeb, heightened …

Reviewed: 22 August 2026 Dryad Global has launched Verihelm, a maritime intelligence platform built to help organisations see emerging risk before it narrows their choices. The platform brings incidents, assessments, …

Reviewed: 22 August 2026 Assessment current at 23 July 2026 This assessment reflects conditions on 23 July 2026. The position can change quickly. Check Verihelm for the latest approved assessment. …

Reviewed: 22 August 2026 New pipelines can reduce dependence on the Strait of Hormuz, but they cannot replace its capacity quickly or isolate energy flows from the conflict around them. …

A gap is not always suspicious. An unexplained gap is always a question. Online platforms give maritime operators access to more vessel, voyage and threat data than ever before. Yet …

New pipelines can bypass a chokepoint. They cannot bypass geopolitical risk. In a new Al Majalla analysis, regional oil producers are exploring alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz, from Saudi …

Beyond the pin: what do you actually know about the next port? A port can look calm on a map and still demand a different operating posture. The pin tells …

Commercial shipping risk in the Strait of Hormuz remains elevated compared with the brief recovery period that followed the mid-June de-escalation. Visible AIS traffic remains significantly below normal levels, war-risk …

Global Navigation Satellite System interference has become a material risk for shipping, insurance, logistics and global supply chains. Jamming can block or overwhelm satellite signals. Spoofing can deceive a receiver …

The latest Dryad Global Maritime Intelligence Brief examines a shifting maritime security picture across two very different operating environments: the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, and the Caribbean. In …

Security conditions across two critical maritime theatres have deteriorated sharply, with the Strait of Hormuz and English Channel both showing signs of heightened operational risk. In the Gulf, recent attacks …

Dryad Global has launched Verihelm™, its next-generation maritime intelligence platform designed to help organisations understand where global trade flows are exposed to disruption, where pressure is building, and what that …

The latest Dryad Global Maritime Intelligence Brief highlights a rapidly shifting maritime security environment across two of the world’s most strategically important waterways: the Black Sea and the Strait of …

Fixing a vessel, lending against a cargo or underwriting a voyage now carries a question that did not trouble operators a decade ago: is anyone in this chain sanctioned, and …

For any maritime business, a sanctions screening programme is only as good as the lists it screens against. A counterparty, a vessel, a beneficial owner or a port operator that …

The maritime risk picture for 2025 is defined less by any single flashpoint than by the way several threats now reinforce one another. State conflict, sanctions evasion, technological disruption and …

Environmental compliance used to be a back-office concern: file the right paperwork, hold the right certificates, satisfy the surveyor. That era is over. A dense and tightening web of fuel, …

A weapon most operators had filed under twentieth-century naval history has returned to one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. Across 2025, a run of unexplained explosions tore open the …

For most of the past decade, Somali piracy was treated as a solved problem. Sustained naval patrols, hardened merchant shipping and a collapse in successful hijackings pushed the threat off …

Ukraine's campaign against Russia's "shadow fleet" of sanctioned oil tankers has stopped being a Black Sea problem. In December 2025, Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) used a multi-stage long-range drone operation …

Maritime risk is no longer defined by one threat at a time. Two patterns are intensifying together: armed piracy is reasserting itself in the western Indian Ocean after years of …

The Strait of Hormuz is the most consequential stretch of water in global energy. Around 20 million barrels of oil and petroleum liquids pass through it every day, close to …

The Indian Ocean carries a large share of the world's energy and trade, and almost all of it funnels through a handful of narrow chokepoints. That geography makes the region …

Maritime risk rarely moves in isolation. This week’s Maritime Intelligence Brief tracks two very different, but strategically significant, patterns of activity affecting commercial operators. In the western Indian Ocean, Somali …

As of early June 2026, the Russia-Ukraine conflict is no longer confined to the Black Sea theatre. Reported long-range Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian port, energy and naval infrastructure around …

The latest Dryad Global Maritime Intelligence Brief examines a sharp deterioration in the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman risk environment, alongside rising cyber threats affecting maritime, …

The latest Dryad Global Maritime Intelligence Brief examines a rapidly shifting maritime security environment, with two developments standing out for commercial operators, insurers, security teams and energy-market stakeholders. In the …

The latest Dryad Global Maritime Intelligence Brief examines two fast-moving maritime risk stories with significant implications for commercial shipping, port operations and regional stability: the tightening maritime pressure around Cuba …

The Strait of Hormuz security environment remains highly volatile, with commercial shipping facing a mix of kinetic risk, collateral hazards, and pervasive electronic warfare. Iranian drone and missile activity continues …

The Strait of Hormuz is moving into a new phase of managed movement and escalation control, as the U.S. announces Project Freedom a humanitarian, freedom-of-navigation operation aimed at assisting neutral …

As London International Shipping Week 2027 builds momentum, Dryad Global will help shape the conversation around resilience, cyber risk and operational security across the maritime sector. London International Shipping Week …

Dryad Global CEO Corey Ranslem speaks to the BBC following reports that Iran seized two cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz after multiple vessels came under fire from Iranian …

The maritime sector is more connected than ever. Modern vessels now rely on networked navigation systems, satellite communications, cargo platforms, digital weather routing and constant ship-to-shore data exchange. That transformation …

The U.S.–Iran maritime picture has just crossed an important threshold: enforcement. Dryad Global’s latest Maritime Intelligence Brief (Updated 21 April 2026) tracks the seizure of the Iranian-flagged container ship M/V …

A sharp escalation in the Gulf is now moving from rhetoric into operational enforcement at sea. Following the collapse of U.S.–Iran talks, the U.S. announced a targeted naval blockade focused …

Operational risk is rising across multiple theatres and the line between security incident and commercial disruption is getting thinner. This week’s Maritime Intelligence Brief includes a Black Sea update following …

Signs of potential de-escalation are emerging in the U.S.–Iran conflict — but the operating environment for commercial shipping remains exposed to rapid reversals. In this week’s Maritime Intelligence Brief, we …

Russian shadow fleet operations continue to adapt to U.S. sanctions, especially in efforts to deliver petroleum products to Cuba amid the island’s severe fuel shortages and power blackouts. The Hong …

Persian Gulf risk is shifting not through constant vessel attacks, but through a decentralised posture, infrastructure pressure, and fast-moving uncertainty in the Strait of Hormuz. This week’s Maritime Intelligence Brief …

Dryad Global’s latest Maritime Intelligence Brief, updated 9 March 2026, highlights a risk environment that remains volatile, fast-moving and increasingly interconnected. From conflict-driven disruption in the Strait of Hormuz to …

Iran’s retaliatory activity is now creating real-world disruption across Gulf aviation and maritime infrastructure, with knock-on effects for commercial shipping planning and risk appetite in and around the Strait of …

The risk of Iranian sea mine use in the Strait of Hormuz remains elevated and should be treated as a credible escalation option, even though there have been no confirmed …

On 01 March 2026, UKMTO issued Update 002 to Advisory 003-26, highlighting a highly volatile maritime security environment in the Arabian Gulf (also known as Persian Gulf), Gulf of Oman, …

Maritime risk rarely changes in a straight line. It spikes, shifts, and clusters driven by geopolitics, cyber exposure, and on-the-ground security dynamics that can move faster than a voyage plan. …