Michelle Wiese Bockmann
Senior Analyst, Lloyd's List Intelligence & Markets Editor

Latest From Michelle Wiese Bockmann
Malta’s loitering sanctioned tanker is first from dark fleet to be targeted by regulators
US regulators have sanctioned eight ships in seven weeks for breaching the oil price cap on Russia, including one from the so-called dark fleet of elderly, anonymously owned sanctions circumventing tankers
Crew of Houthi-hijacked Galaxy Leader allowed ‘modest contact’ with families says vessel’s registered owner
Public relations company issues second statement on behalf of registered owner and shipmanger since car carrier was hijacked on November 19
Greek shipowners in exodus from Russian oil trades in November
Crackdown on tankers breaching G7 sanctions over October and November by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control thought to be the trigger for the Greek exit
Geopolitics and dark shipping to dominate IMO assembly
Assembly to debate a resolution to address the dangerous and illegal shipping practices of a dark fleet of sanctions-circumventing tankers and decide whether to expel Russia from of the IMO Council
First Greece-owned tankers return to load Venezuela oil since easing of US sanctions
Western-linked ships visibly return for the first time since mid-2020, when prominent Greece-based shipowners were briefly blacklisted, triggering a pledge from their lobby group to leave trades
Denmark leaves position unclear on inspecting sanctions-busting Russian tankers
The EU and US governments are reportedly in talks with Denmark to inspect and possibly block tankers without known insurance. Whether that would include those that dropped anchor at the Skagen anchorage was not spelled out