First signs of post-sanctions stranded Russia oil cargoes emerge at Chinese ports | Sanctioned tonnage lifted 56% of Russian crude in December | Panama Canal, now a geopolitical hotspot, sees rising ship traffic

Dark fleet tactics evolve as tankers take on multiple interchangeable digital identities | Going out with a bang: US sanctions over 180 vessels and dozens of entities in unprecedented Russia crackdown | US Russia shipping crackdown brings 35% of dark fleet under sanctions

How the Sounion salvage exposed a fundamental gap in shipping’s crisis response capabilities | Renewed US port strike averted as union and terminals reach deal | Carbon levy prospects surge as Liberia and Panama pledge support

Taiwan is hunting one vessel disguised as three for cable cutting | Pentagon’s label of Cosco as military firm signals geopolitics will keep rattling shipping | Chinese builder Hengli Heavy ousts star executive amid expansion road map

China’s Shandong port bans blacklisted tonnage following spate of sanctioned VLCC calls | Cosco and CIMC put on US Defense Department sanctions list | Scrubber water pollution ‘orders of magnitude’ below regulatory limits

Ship accused of cutting undersea cable by Taiwan changed name before leaving port | Finland court upholds Eagle S seizure order | More elderly shadow fleet tankers heading for shipbreakers

Russia-linked cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland ‘was loaded with spying equipment | Lawyer for cable-cutting tanker Eagle S applies to Finland court to overturn seizure order | Russian insurer Ingosstrakh terminated Eagle S insurance before August over poor condition

Crimea to Syria route closed after Assad regime falls | Marine war risk will lose money in 2024, argues Aon’s Meyrick | US lawmakers propose taxing Chinese ships forcing cargo on to US vessels

Dark fleet intervention raises spectre of Russian naval escalation | Houthis say nine dead as Israel targets Yemeni ports | Doubts raised over Bangladeshi report on LPG cargo origins

Ukraine ‘outraged’ at Yemen grain shipment from occupied Crimea | Boxships hit by huge hike in International Group reinsurance levy | What does a fake flag certificate look like? Lloyd’s List shows you

UK expands sanctions on Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ and targets trader | Baltic countries to check dark fleet insurance | Commodity shipping rates sink to new 2024 lows in ‘winter of discontent’

Fears grow over future abandonment — not scrapping — of dark fleet tankers | Iran oil exports to China snarled by US sanctions on tankers | EU blacklists a further 52 ships in latest sanctions crackdown

Ten trends that will shape the shipping industry in 2025 and beyond | Containers: Trump tariffs, strike potential and alliance shake-up feeds anxiety | Dry bulk: Tighter supply to balance demand drop-offs

If stocks keep sinking, should owners keep buying back their own shares? | ACL’s Abbott confident of ILA deal as transatlantic box trade stabilises | Regulation: Shipping will get a global carbon price

US senators tell Treasury to ratchet up Iran sanctions | What Assad’s downfall means for the Red Sea shipping crisis | RightShip revises timing for younger vessel inspections after industry pushback

Transpacific spot rates hit by combo of lower US imports and higher vessel supply | Barbados will keep Qualship 21 status despite flagging US-sanctioned vessels | FuelEU and ETS changes in 2025 could benefit dry bulk sector