Ukraine War

Last week’s Capital Link online Shipping Forum was organized well before the crisis in the Ukraine unfolded. An important observation that emerged from

By Issam Abdallah ODESA, Ukraine, April 3 (Reuters) – Russian attacks have destroyed an oil refinery in the central Poltava region and struck

By K. Oanh Ha Apr 3, 2022, (Bloomberg) –Many more Russian-flagged vessels than usual switched their flags to other countries in March, possibly to

(Bloomberg) –Russia boosted wheat shipments by about 60% in March, despite that being the first month of its invasion of Ukraine. The country

By Cagan Koc (Bloomberg) — In normal times, the Dutch port of Rotterdam is like a machine: hundreds of ships come and go each day, and tens of

LONDON, March 31 (Reuters) – Russia accused Ukraine on Thursday of laying hundreds of mines near its coast and said some were drifting into open waters

LVIV, Ukraine, March 30 (Reuters) – Ukraine is in talks with Romania on shipping its farming exports via the Romanian Black Sea port

By Benjamin Robertson (Bloomberg) — The Ukrainian government has asked international marine insurers to stop all dealings with shipping companies

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, March 30 (Reuters) – Ukraine accused Russia on Wednesday of planting mines in the Black Sea and said some of those

By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) — Global supply strains that started to ease in early 2022 are worsening again as headwinds strengthen from the war in

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, March 29 (Reuters) – With more than 1,000 seafarers stranded on ships in Ukrainian ports and food supplies running

ISTANBUL, March 28 (Reuters) – A military diving team deactivated a stray naval mine off Turkey’s northwest coast on Monday, Turkey’s

By Volodymyr Verbyany (Bloomberg) — Ukraine may ease wheat-export curbs as soon as next month, once it is confident that spring sowing is

By K. Oanh Ha, Mar 27, 2022 (Bloomberg) –Russian tankers carrying oil chemicals and products are increasingly concealing their movements, a phenomenon

By Yoruk Isik and Azra Ceylan RUMELIFENERI, Turkey, March 26 (Reuters) – Turkey’s military deactivated a mine on Saturday that had

Russian exports of crude oil and refined products—what the major flows are (that’s the easy part), and also the geopolitics that attach to them (that’s

Ship manager V.Group has joined together with a group of maritime unions to coordinate the evacuation of seafarers and their families from the Ukrainian port

By Tarso Veloso (Bloomberg) Russian attacks on some of Ukraine’s key export hubs are damaging commodities infrastructure and mean it could be a long road

VIV, Ukraine, March 24 (Reuters) – Ukraine said on Thursday it had destroyed a large Russian landing support ship, the Orsk, at the

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, March 23 (Reuters) – Food and medical supplies onboard over 100 foreign flagged ships stuck in Ukraine due to the