Commercial Disruption Alert - 10 Sept 2026 - East Asian Ports
Repeated typhoons disrupt East Asian ports, delaying vessels and weakening schedule reliability.
Topic
Geopolitics
Analysis, reports and commentary from Power & Corridors connected to this topic.
Analysis
From Crimea to Svalbard: Why Norway Seized a Russian State Vessel
A Russian research vessel was not seized for sanctions violations. Its detention in Svalbard points to a different maritime risk: ships becoming recoverable assets in the enforcement of international judgments.
Intelligence
Regional Security Alert - 01 Sept 2026 - Southern Iran
US strikes across southern Iran raise risks to Hormuz shipping and trade.
Maritime Security
When a Ship’s Flag Becomes an Intelligence Question
The boarding of the tanker SUN shows why following maritime movement is no longer enough. Increasingly, analysts also need to establish whether the legal identity moving across the map is real.
Intelligence
Situation Report - 01 Sept 2026 - Gulf Security
Hormuz disruption is widening into a broader regional maritime and security risk.
Intelligence Alert
Regional Security Alert – 31 August 2026 – UAE / Jordan
UAE Air Force Responds to UAV Approaching from Iran as Regional Escalation Widens
Monitoring Indicators
US-Iran-Hormuz Monitoring & Indicators - 31 August 2026
US strikes and Iranian retaliation raise maritime and regional escalation risks around Hormuz.
Maritime
The Great Port Decoupling That Isn't Happening
As Europe and North America scrutinise Chinese involvement in strategic infrastructure, CMA CGM's new partnership with CCCC points towards a more complicated future: not global decoupling, but the geographic fragmentation of port and logistics investment.
Analysis
When Ships Stop Moving: The Growing Intelligence Value of Maritime Anomalies
Maritime anomalies reveal how vessel behaviour increasingly exposes sanctions evasion, trafficking, surveillance and strategic coercion.
Analysis
Yemen, Bab el-Mandeb and the Red Sea: Recovering the Strategic Initiative and Curtailing Iran’s Regional Hegemony
Restoring Yemen’s western coastline could constrain Houthi maritime coercion and weaken Iran’s double-chokepoint regional leverage.
Analysis
Bypassing Hormuz Does Not Mean Escaping Geography
Complementing MEIS analysis, this examines how energy redundancy shifts risk across wider maritime corridors.
Analysis
The Makkah Pact: Building Security Around the New Geography of Trade
Makkah links collective defence with trade corridors, infrastructure, industry and regional power.
Analysis
From Strategic Redundancy to Systemic Resilience: Rethinking the Economics of Energy Security
Energy security requires strategic redundancy, diversified corridors and shared infrastructure to withstand interconnected maritime disruption.