The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has just announced that Russian-flagged vessels have been approved to use Admiralty digital charts and publications. The UKHO notes that over 75% of the world’s vessels over 2,000 gross tonnes now permitted to carry digital nautical publications such as lights lists, radio signals lists and tide tables.
With 2,322 vessels, the Russian Federation is the world’s eighth largest flag state and now joins a group of 69 flag states including Panama, Marshall Islands, Liberia, Singapore and Greece.
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The firm building what will become the largest port in India plans to raise as much as 300 billion rupees ($3.5 billion) of debt, giving lenders an opportunity to invest in one of the cornerstones of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s infrastructure overhaul.
China’s largest shipping company is among the firms in talks to invest in a multinational consortium seeking to buy billionaire Li Ka-shing’s global ports, according to people familiar with the matter, in an effort to ease Beijing’s concerns over the controversial deal.
While global energy markets are not yet pricing in worst-case scenarios for the Israel-Iran war, oil tanker rates are providing a good real-time gauge of the escalating risks.
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