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For any maritime business, a sanctions screening programme is only as good as the lists it screens against. A counterparty, a vessel, a beneficial owner or a port operator that …
The maritime risk picture for 2025 is defined less by any single flashpoint than by the way several threats now reinforce one another. State conflict, sanctions evasion, technological disruption and …
Environmental compliance used to be a back-office concern: file the right paperwork, hold the right certificates, satisfy the surveyor. That era is over. A dense and tightening web of fuel, …
A weapon most operators had filed under twentieth-century naval history has returned to one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. Across 2025, a run of unexplained explosions tore open the …
For most of the past decade, Somali piracy was treated as a solved problem. Sustained naval patrols, hardened merchant shipping and a collapse in successful hijackings pushed the threat off …
Ukraine's campaign against Russia's "shadow fleet" of sanctioned oil tankers has stopped being a Black Sea problem. In December 2025, Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) used a multi-stage long-range drone operation …
Maritime risk is no longer defined by one threat at a time. Two patterns are intensifying together: armed piracy is reasserting itself in the western Indian Ocean after years of …
The Strait of Hormuz is the most consequential stretch of water in global energy. Around 20 million barrels of oil and petroleum liquids pass through it every day, close to …
The Indian Ocean carries a large share of the world's energy and trade, and almost all of it funnels through a handful of narrow chokepoints. That geography makes the region …
Maritime risk rarely moves in isolation. This week’s Maritime Intelligence Brief tracks two very different, but strategically significant, patterns of activity affecting commercial operators. In the western Indian Ocean, Somali …
As of early June 2026, the Russia-Ukraine conflict is no longer confined to the Black Sea theatre. Reported long-range Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian port, energy and naval infrastructure around …
The latest Dryad Global Maritime Intelligence Brief examines a sharp deterioration in the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman risk environment, alongside rising cyber threats affecting maritime, …
The latest Dryad Global Maritime Intelligence Brief examines a rapidly shifting maritime security environment, with two developments standing out for commercial operators, insurers, security teams and energy-market stakeholders. In the …
The latest Dryad Global Maritime Intelligence Brief examines two fast-moving maritime risk stories with significant implications for commercial shipping, port operations and regional stability: the tightening maritime pressure around Cuba …
The Strait of Hormuz security environment remains highly volatile, with commercial shipping facing a mix of kinetic risk, collateral hazards, and pervasive electronic warfare. Iranian drone and missile activity continues …
The Strait of Hormuz is moving into a new phase of managed movement and escalation control, as the U.S. announces Project Freedom a humanitarian, freedom-of-navigation operation aimed at assisting neutral …
As London International Shipping Week 2027 builds momentum, Dryad Global will help shape the conversation around resilience, cyber risk and operational security across the maritime sector. London International Shipping Week …
Dryad Global CEO Corey Ranslem speaks to the BBC following reports that Iran seized two cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz after multiple vessels came under fire from Iranian …
The maritime sector is more connected than ever. Modern vessels now rely on networked navigation systems, satellite communications, cargo platforms, digital weather routing and constant ship-to-shore data exchange. That transformation …
The U.S.–Iran maritime picture has just crossed an important threshold: enforcement. Dryad Global’s latest Maritime Intelligence Brief (Updated 21 April 2026) tracks the seizure of the Iranian-flagged container ship M/V …
A sharp escalation in the Gulf is now moving from rhetoric into operational enforcement at sea. Following the collapse of U.S.–Iran talks, the U.S. announced a targeted naval blockade focused …
Operational risk is rising across multiple theatres and the line between security incident and commercial disruption is getting thinner. This week’s Maritime Intelligence Brief includes a Black Sea update following …
Signs of potential de-escalation are emerging in the U.S.–Iran conflict — but the operating environment for commercial shipping remains exposed to rapid reversals. In this week’s Maritime Intelligence Brief, we …
Russian shadow fleet operations continue to adapt to U.S. sanctions, especially in efforts to deliver petroleum products to Cuba amid the island’s severe fuel shortages and power blackouts. The Hong …
Persian Gulf risk is shifting not through constant vessel attacks, but through a decentralised posture, infrastructure pressure, and fast-moving uncertainty in the Strait of Hormuz. This week’s Maritime Intelligence Brief …
Dryad Global’s latest Maritime Intelligence Brief, updated 9 March 2026, highlights a risk environment that remains volatile, fast-moving and increasingly interconnected. From conflict-driven disruption in the Strait of Hormuz to …
Iran’s retaliatory activity is now creating real-world disruption across Gulf aviation and maritime infrastructure, with knock-on effects for commercial shipping planning and risk appetite in and around the Strait of …
The risk of Iranian sea mine use in the Strait of Hormuz remains elevated and should be treated as a credible escalation option, even though there have been no confirmed …
On 01 March 2026, UKMTO issued Update 002 to Advisory 003-26, highlighting a highly volatile maritime security environment in the Arabian Gulf (also known as Persian Gulf), Gulf of Oman, …
Maritime risk rarely changes in a straight line. It spikes, shifts, and clusters driven by geopolitics, cyber exposure, and on-the-ground security dynamics that can move faster than a voyage plan. …
Commercial maritime traffic in the Gulf of Oman and Strait of Hormuz is experiencing elevated risks of GPS jamming and AIS spoofing, directly linked to ongoing Iranian military exercises. These …
Alara Group Ltd, an AI-driven business development and strategic consulting firm, today announced a strategic partnership with Dryad Global Ltd, a leading provider of maritime risk intelligence and shipboard cybersecurity …
As Arctic sea ice retreats, the idea of a viable shipping corridor between Europe and Asia via the Arctic is moving from theory to operational planning. The most developed option …
This week’s Maritime Intelligence Brief (MIB) brings together the signals that matter to operators, insurers, and security teams: shifting state posture, piracy and maritime crime patterns, and the cyber campaigns …
Our Maritime Intelligence Brief distils hundreds of signals into a weekly picture built for decisions — not dashboards. It’s designed to be forwarded internally, briefed quickly, and used to adjust …
Dryad Global’s latest Weekly Maritime Intelligence Brief tracks the operational signals shaping risk across key routes from the Red Sea / Bab el-Mandeb to the Gulf, the Mediterranean, West Africa, …
Environmental exposure isn’t just a compliance issue — it can drive route decisions, reporting workloads, and reputational risk. Secure Voyager Hub includes environmental regulations and compliance-relevant data alongside incident intelligence, …
This week’s Maritime Intelligence Brief (MIB) tracks a shifting risk picture across key chokepoints and conflict-adjacent trade routes combining geopolitical warning signals, incident reporting, and cyber-physical threats affecting maritime operations. …
Maritime cyber risk isn’t confined to IT teams — it’s operational. When digital disruption hits a terminal, an agent network, a crewing pipeline, or a port community system, the outcome …
The first week of the year has delivered a familiar message to shipowners, operators and insurers: risk doesn’t reset on 1 January, it compounds. Dryad Global’s Maritime Intelligence Brief (MIB), …
As Q4 closed, three patterns stood out in operator workflows: Med migrant activity shaping port call prep, LATAM drug interdiction influencing screening and checks, and Baltic infrastructure risks focusing attention …
The recent strike on the Oman-flagged tanker Qendil (IMO: 9310525), claimed by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), marks an unprecedented extension of Ukraine's drone campaign targeting vessels associated with Russia's shadow …
Automation has changed how maritime teams consume information. It’s easier than ever to pull headlines, scrape alerts, and generate summaries. But in high-consequence environments — shipping security, LNG schedules, cruise …
Maritime risk isn’t only about where you sail — it’s increasingly about what spills over into commercial operations when states and non-state actors push boundaries. This week’s Maritime Intelligence Brief …
For more than five years, Dryad Global’s Maritime Intelligence Brief (MIB) has been produced weekly to help maritime professionals track what’s changing and what to do about it across the …
On 6 November 2025, the product tanker HELLAS APHRODITE became the first merchant vessel successfully boarded by Somali pirates in the Western Indian Ocean Basin since 2018. The incident – …
This week’s Maritime Intelligence Brief – 1 December 2025 highlights how quickly the risk picture is shifting across both traditional and emerging theatres. From Black Sea sabotage to cyber-enabled threats …
Chokepoints concentrate risk. In the Suez and Red Sea, interference can escalate quickly; in the Black Sea and Baltic, AIS/GNSS spoofing challenges navigation and compliance; in the Malacca Strait, robbery/boarding …
When most people look at a superyacht, they see the glamour: polished teak, polished steel, and polished service. What they don’t see are the systems, decisions, and regulations that keep …
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