Commercial Disruption Alert - 10 Sept 2026 - East Asian Ports
Repeated typhoons disrupt East Asian ports, delaying vessels and weakening schedule reliability.
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Maritime
Analysis, reports and commentary from Power & Corridors connected to this topic.
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
Somali Piracy Is No Longer a Coastal Problem
Somali piracy expands offshore as hijackings, motherships and hostage-taking intensify across region.
Maritime
The Bottleneck Has Moved Ashore: Why Port Congestion Is Becoming Structural
Container shipping has added ships. The harder problem is increasingly what happens when they reach land
Maritime
Canada’s Arctic Exercises Point to a Wider Contest Over Northern Corridors
Canada’s Arctic exercises highlight growing strategic competition as Russia and China expand Northern Sea Route activity.
Defence & Security
The Bear Gap Is Becoming a Real Arctic Security Problem
From Barentsburg to Severomorsk, surveillance, submarines and undersea infrastructure are converging around one of the North Atlantic’s least understood strategic passages
Analysis
From Maritime Passport to Houthi Clearance: AIS Enters Its Next Phase
The passage of Chinese-owned tankers through Bab el-Mandeb suggests that political identity, cargo declarations and direct clearance are becoming part of an informal maritime access system.
Strategic Reads
The Treaty That Still Controls the Black Sea
At 90, the Montreux Convention remains the legal architecture behind Türkiye’s maritime power—and a constraint on both Russia and NATO.
Defence & Security
From Bandar Abbas to Brownsville: America Is Building the Shipyard for Autonomous War
The US Navy spent years testing unmanned systems in Middle Eastern waters. The attack on Iran’s submarine facilities showed what that experimentation was preparing to deliver.
Maritime
Beyond the Hormuz Paradox: Strategic Redundancy in an Era of Interconnected Chokepoints
ASTRA offers strategic redundancy beyond Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb through Arabian Sea connectivity.