With Purge, Xi's Military Control Rises - And So Do Regional Risks

Published Feb 4, 2026 2:48 PM by The Strategist

Posted in: Government

By decisively consolidating his personal power, President Xi Jinping’s latest purge of senior military leadership increases strate...

Op-Ed: Seafarer Recruitment Should Never Be a Gamble

Published Feb 4, 2026 7:35 AM by Josephine Le

Posted in: Shipping

Recent reports concerning Chinese seafarers who traveled overseas for what they believed were legitimate job opportunities, only t...

Op-Ed: The Navy Is America’s First Line of Economic Defense

When the container ship Ever Given grounded itself across the Suez Canal in 2021, the economic shock spread far beyond the Middle...

Tanker Orders: Too Much, or Not Enough?

Last week, in our annual forecasting opinion ("A Fool's Game?"), we prognosticated that the tanker orderbook will decline in 2026....

Op-Ed: Fully-Compliant Fire Systems May Fall Short Against Modern Risks

Published Feb 1, 2026 3:20 PM by John Nicholson

Posted in: Shipping

Inspection reports across much of the commercial fleet paint a reassuring picture. Fire detection systems are operational, fixed f...

China Wants to Host the High Seas Secretariat

Published Feb 1, 2026 2:46 PM by Dialogue Earth

Posted in: Government

[By Jiang Mengnan] China has joined Chile and Belgium in competing to host the secretariat of the High Seas Treaty. The landmark U...

An Armada May Be On the Way to Iran, But It Has Not Yet Arrived

Published Jan 28, 2026 9:43 PM by The Maritime Executive

Posted in: Government

President Trump has told an audience that "there's another beautiful armada floating beautifully toward Iran right now." Some comm...

Op-Ed: Baltimore's Bridge Collapse and the Making of a P&I Super Loss

On a calm March night in 2024, a containership outbound from Baltimore lost electrical power, struck a main pier of the Francis Sc...

Geopolitics Has Moved From the Margins to the Engine Room of Shipping

Published Jan 26, 2026 2:59 PM by Irene Rosberg

Posted in: Business

For much of its modern history, the maritime industry treated geopolitics as background noise. Today, that is no longer possible....