This section discusses the risk levels, security protocols, and legal context of everything from coast guard inspections and maritime law enforcement efforts to piracy threats. This helps crews and companies to avoid danger while maintaining compliance.
23 articles
Iran's Revolutionary Guard declares the Strait of Hormuz closed to shipping linked to the United States, Israel and their allies, capping a week that produced a transit permit system, an allowlist and fees reported at up to $2 million.
Kemal Can Kayar|4 min read|Mar 27, 2026
A US and Israeli air campaign against Iran has all but shut the Strait of Hormuz within a day, and the first merchant tankers have been hit off Oman and the UAE, with crews evacuated and casualties reported.
Kemal Can Kayar|4 min read|Mar 1, 2026
A DHS-led force boards and seizes the Russian-flagged tanker Marinera, formerly Bella 1, about 300 miles south of Iceland after a two-week Atlantic pursuit, extending the Venezuela quarantine to the high seas.
Kemal Can Kayar|3 min read|Jan 8, 2026
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has deployed patrol vessel BRP Cabra (MRRV-4409) to shadow the armed China Coast Guard (CCG) ship 4305 just 35 nautical miles off Subic Bay, a close patrol near the former US naval base.
Kemal Can Kayar|2 min read|Nov 23, 2025
Somalia used the 4th EU-Indo-Pacific Ministerial Forum in Brussels to elevate maritime security, promising closer cooperation and new investment in patrol capacity off the Horn of Africa.
Kemal Can Kayar|2 min read|Nov 22, 2025
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has intercepted the Marshall Islands-flagged products tanker Talara off the coast of the United Arab Emirates and diverted it toward Iranian waters, in what Western maritime authorities describe as a state-directed seizure in the approaches to the Strait of Hormuz.
Kemal Can Kayar|5 min read|Nov 14, 2025
On 18 October 2025, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported that a vessel registered under the flag of Cameroon was struck by an unknown projectile approximately 214 km (116 nautical miles) east of the port of Aden in the Gulf of Aden.
Kemal Can Kayar|2 min read|Oct 18, 2025
WASHINGTON, The U.S. military has intercepted and is holding two survivors aboard a U.S.
Kemal Can Kayar|2 min read|Oct 18, 2025
A Comoros-flagged livestock carrier sailing northward through the southern Red Sea was targeted by armed assailants operating from a wooden boat off the coast of Ahwar in southern Yemen.
Kemal Can Kayar|2 min read|Oct 18, 2025