Press Conference by Arsenio Dominguez, Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), on the Strait of Hormuz.
Following an attack on a vessel in the Gulf of Oman, IMO has dec...
Captain Raman Kapoor for Day of the Seafarer 2026
#underseacables carry roughly 99% of global internet traffic — enabling everything from digital payments to video calls and online shopping.
In our latest webinar, Mathieu Boulègue explained why t...
Moskau verdient trotz internationaler Sanktionen weiterhin Milliarden mit Ölexporten. Die russische Schattenflotte transportiert nicht nur Rohöl nach Indien und China. Die Tanker bedrohen auch die ...
Russia’s shadow fleet — a network of over 1,000 aged tankers moving sanctioned oil through the world’s busiest shipping lanes — is no longer just a compliance problem. It has become an active hybri...
The World Health Organization is supporting the response to a hantavirus outbreak aboard a passenger ship after its arrival in Tenerife, Canary Islands. Passengers and crew are disembarking under h...
Co-Hosts Tess Bridgeman and Rachel Goldbrenner are joined by Rebecca Ingber and Brian Finucane to examine the escalating U.S. campaign of killings of suspected drug traffickers at sea under “Operat...
Co-Hosts Tess Bridgeman and Rachel Goldbrenner are joined by Rebecca Ingber and Brian Finucane to examine the escalating U.S. campaign of killings of suspected drug traffickers at sea under “Operat...
“I am deeply concerned about the curtailment of navigational rights and freedoms in the area of the Strait of Hormuz,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said.
Briefing reporters in ...
Het hoeft niet zes maanden te duren voordat een schip veilig door de Straat van Hormuz kan varen, zegt vice-admiraal buiten dienst Ben Bekkering in het radioprogramma Sven op 1.
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged Member States to support the emergency evacuation framework prepared by the International Maritime Organization (IOM) to securely evacuate ships and seaf...
Wat gebeurde er de afgelopen dagen precies in de Straat van Hormuz? Bij Eva Jinek vertelt viceadmiraal buiten dienst en Clingendael-onderzoeker Ben Bekkering wat hem opviel.
Uitzending van 20 apri...
Jennifer Parker is a Lowy Institute Nonresident Fellow and a former Royal Australian Navy warfare officer. Speaking with her Lowy Institute colleague Charles Lyons-Jones, she explains the condition...
Crises colliding: the impact of dark fleets and conflict on seafarers
IHRB’s Francesca Fairbairn speaks to Mark Dickinson, outgoing General Secretary of Nautilus International, and Nathan Smith, a ship inspector with the International Transport Workers' Federation, t...
After Hormuz: Will the Houthis Block Another Chokepoint?
On March 28th, Iran's Yemeni proxy joined the war in the Middle East, firing missiles at Israel. But they have not yet played one of the most important cards still at their disposal – attacking shi...
On 26 March, ASPI and the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS) hosted a public panel event exploring how China is deploying maritime coercion in the Indo-Pacific, how open-source methods can...
Read more: https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/23/iran-deliberate-attacks-on-civilian-ships-apparent-war-crimes
For more on war crimes by US and Israeli forces in Iran, visit https://www.hrw.org/news...
Tracking Russia's Ghost Fleet
Since late 2025, the US has seized ten sanctioned oil tankers tied to Russia, Venezuela, and Iran. Now, other countries are taking similar actions. CSIS experts, Max Bergmann and Jose Macias III, e...
The major commercial shipping crisis caused by the war which has practically halted all vessel movement in the Strait of Hormuz south of Iran is already impacting UN agencies and partners seeking t...