Date | Title | Description |
24.06.2025 | Cargo ship carrying new vehicles to Mexico sinks in the North Pacific weeks after catching fire | A salvage crew arrived days after the fire disabled the vehicle.
Two salvage tugs containing pollution control equipment will remain on scene to monitor for any signs of pollution or debris, the company said. The crew members of those two s... |
18.06.2025 | The Rising Tide of Conflict: Israel and Iran in the Crosshairs | The Middle East is a powder keg. Tensions between Israel and Iran have reached a boiling point. The world watches as these two nations clash, each strike echoing like thunder across the region. Iran has called on Gulf states to mediate a ce... |
18.06.2025 | Two oil tankers collide, catch fire near Strait of Hormuz | DUBAI/COPENHAGEN: Two oil tankers collided and caught fire on Tuesday (Jun 17) near the Strait of Hormuz, where electronic interference has surged during conflict between Iran and Israel, but there were no injuries to crew or spillage repor... |
17.06.2025 | War insurance costs to Israel soar after Iranian attacks, sources say | War insurance costs to Israel soar after Iranian attacks, sources say
By Jonathan SaulJune 17, 20255:46 PM UTCUpdated ago
Text
Small Text
Medium Text
Large Text
Share
X
Facebook
Linkedin
Email
Link
General view of Ashdod port, Israel Octobe... |
17.06.2025 | US military boosts Middle East 'capabilities' amid Israel-Iran conflict | WASHINGTON: The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz was leaving Southeast Asia on Monday (Jun 16) after cancelling a Vietnam visit, as the Pentagon announced it was sending "additional capabilities" to the Middle East amid a ramp-up of th... |
16.06.2025 | Iran asks Gulf states to mediate for ceasefire with Israel: Sources | Tehran has asked Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman to press US President Donald Trump to use his influence on Israel to agree to an immediate ceasefire, two Iranian and three regional sources told Reuters on Monday (Jun 16).
In return, Iran will... |
27.12.2024 | Finland boards oil tanker suspected of causing internet, power cable outages | HELSINKI: Finnish authorities on Thursday (Dec 26) seized a ship carrying Russian oil in the Baltic Sea on suspicion it caused the outage of an undersea power cable connecting Finland and Estonia a day earlier, and that it also damaged or b... |
16.10.2024 | The Silent Crisis: Trees and Oceans Under Siege | In the vast tapestry of life on Earth, trees and oceans play pivotal roles. Yet, both are facing silent crises that threaten not just their existence but the very fabric of our ecosystems. The world is witnessing a catastrophic decline in t... |
15.10.2024 | Использование OSINT для выявления невидимых угроз нашим океанам | Наши океаны огромны, и по мере удаления от суши вопрос о владении водами становится всё менее прозрачным, что упрощает сокрытие множества угроз — от разливов нефти и химических веществ до демонтажа судов и незаконного рыболовства. Эти виды ... |
02.10.2024 | Методика и инструменты для идентификации и отслеживания судов | В этом материале речь пойдёт о методике и наборе инструментов для определения местонахождения, маршрутов, владельца и проверок торгового судна за четыре простых шага.
16 января 2024 года сухогруз Zografia подвергся ракетному обстрелу в Крас... |
16.08.2024 | Retired state ferries sold for $100,000 each | SEATTLE – Two vessels that each spent more than 50 years as part of the Washington State Ferries fleet are heading to South America.
WSF has entered into purchase and sales agreements with Nelson Armas of Ecuador for Elwha and Klahowya. The... |
22.06.2024 | Старт китайского аппарата «Чанъэ́-6» с космодрома Вэньчан на Луну — опыт космодромного туризма | В декабре 2019 я посетил о.Хайнань и своими глазами (с расстояния около 4.5 км, прямо с балкона своего номера отеля) наблюдал запуск китайской ракеты SZ-5, как и описано тут: https://habr.com/ru/articles/483650/
Увиденное в Вэньчане мне пон... |
07.06.2024 | В помощь радиолюбителю: принимаем сигналы AIS морских судов | Морские суда непрерывно передают о себе информацию при помощи автоматической системы идентификации (AIS, Automatic Identification System). Она помогает уменьшить риск столкновения судов друг с другом, а также дать возможность капитанам имет... |
14.05.2024 | Repair ship sets sail to fix cable breaks impacting East Africa | The Léon Thévenin in Cape Town in an undated file photo
The Léon Thévenin, a cable repair ship, has been kept busy lately. Soon after returning to dock in Cape Town after attending to broken subsea broadband cables near Ivory Coast, the shi... |
30.04.2024 | Severed West African internet cables repaired | The Wacs cable, which was severed off the west coast of Africa in mid-March — along with three other submarine internet cables — is expected to be repaired by today (Tuesday, 30 April 2024).
Wacs and the other cables – Sat-3, Ace and MainOn... |
09.04.2024 | 90+ дашбордов для OSINT и глобального мониторинга | Наблюдение за тем, какие изменения происходят на планете в масштабах стран и континентов — настоящий источник вдохновения для OSINT-аналитиков. Специалисты Бастиона поделились актуальным списком интерактивных дашбордов, которые они держат в... |
20.03.2024 | How African ISPs routed around broken subsea cables | Paratus Group CEO Barney Harmse assists with the recent landing of Google’s Equiano cable in Swakopmund, Namibia in 2022. Image: Desert Pearl Photography
Internet service providers serving Africa have been forced to send their traffic via e... |
30.11.2023 | Две метеостанции в Санкт-Петербурге: наблюдаем взрыв вулкана Хунга-Тонга-Хунга-Хаапай и не только | Наверное, каждый, кто начинал осваивать микроконтроллеры, после мигания диодиком собирал метеостанцию или, по крайней мере, задумывался об этом. Сравнительно простое устройство позволяет отработать взаимодействие контроллера и датчиков, про... |
20.09.2023 | All broken subsea cables now repaired, including Sat-3 | The Léon Thévenin in Cape Town in an undated file photo
Telkom subsidiary Openserve confirmed on Wednesday that repairs to the Sat-3 cable system are complete, marking the end of repair work on three broken subsea cables.
“Openserve is plea... |
11.09.2023 | Work begins on fixing snapped Ace cable | The Léon Thévenin in Cape Town in an updated file photo
Repairs to the Africa Coast to Europe (Ace) subsea cable, one of three cables scheduled for repair by the crew of French cable-laying vessel Léon Thévenin, have started.
This is accord... |
05.09.2023 | Wacs cable to be returned to service on Wednesday | Openserve CEO Althon Beukes
There’s good news for South African internet users: Telkom subsidiary Openserve has told TechCentral that repairs to the Wacs and Sat-3 subsea cables are officially under way.
The cables broke on 6 August in a de... |
24.08.2023 | Léon Thévenin sets sail to fix broken subsea cables | The Léon Thévenin in Cape Town in an undated file photo
Fibre-optic cables that were damaged by a rockfall in an undersea canyon, resulting in slow internet connections in South Africa, should be repaired next month by a specialised vessel,... |
13.08.2023 | Expect internet disruptions in SA as two undersea cables snapped | Expect internet disruptions in SA as two undersea cables snapped Photos: Stock/Canva
You can expect internet disruptions as two undersea communication cables snapped.
While the cable-laying ship Léon Thévenin has been mobilised for deep wat... |
29.06.2023 | Titan investigators will try to find out why sub imploded. Here's what they'll do. | As pieces of debris from the Titan submersible began to be recovered from the ocean's depths on Wednesday, investigators are hoping they might provide answers about what happened in the fateful moments after the sub lost contact with its su... |
25.05.2023 | Судно село на мель в Суэцком канале | Сухогруз Xin Hai Tong сел на мель в Суэцком канале около 4:00 по местному времени (совпадает с мск). Об этом сообщила пресс-служба судоходной компании Leth Shipping в Twitter.
Буксиры пытаются поднять его на воду. По информации компании, в ... |
23.05.2023 | China Eyes New Provocations As Super Typhoon Mawar Targets Guam Bases | As Coast Guard Cutters sortie from Guam on May 21, a mission-critical sub tender still sits pier ... [+] side.U.S. Coast Guard |
23.02.2023 | How to make the most of maps on a Chromebook | Image: Andy Wolber/TechRepublic
If you’ve ever used a map on a Chromebook, you’ve likely used Google Maps. Fans of satellite imagery may also have explored Google Earth. Both of these apps are obvious map options for people who use a Chrome... |
16.02.2023 | Kpler Acquires MarineTraffic and FleetMon | Kpler, a Brussels, Belgium-based provider of commodities data, analytics, and market insight, acquired MarineTraffic, an Athens, Greece-based provider of ship tracking and maritime intelligence, and FleetMon, a Rostock, Germany-based provid... |
15.02.2023 | Commodities data firm Kpler hauls a pair of marine freight trackers: MarineTraffic and FleetMon | Kpler's commodity intelligence platform will be expanded following its acquisition of the marine vessel tracker MarineTraffic and the latter's subsidiary FleetMon. (source).
It's the fifth acquisition for the Brussels-HQed company in the sp... |
09.01.2023 | How Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich fell from grace after Putin's invasion of Ukraine | Russian billionaire and businessman Roman Abramovich attends meeting at the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, on December, 19, 2016. Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images
Before Russia's invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, businessman Roman Abramovich ... |
26.10.2022 | South Africa will allow a Russian oligarch to moor his superyacht in Cape Town as it continues on epic global cruise avoiding Western sanctions | The $500 million superyacht anchored in Hong Kong in September. Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images
Redeem now
A $500 million oligarch-owned superyacht has cruised between the Seychelles, Russia, and Hong Kong.
The yacht, owned by sanctione... |
24.10.2022 | 20 crew members supply Roman Abramovich's $600 million superyacht with provisions, electricity, and water every day as the Ukraine war wages on, report says | Roman Abramovich next to a picture of his superyacht, Solaris, in Porto Montenegro on March 12. Marc Atkins/Filip Filipovic/Getty Images
Redeem now
A crew supplies Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich's yacht on a daily basis, a worker told... |
08.10.2022 | US warned Hong Kong against providing a 'safe haven' for sanctioned oligarchs after a $500 million superyacht docked in the city's harbor | Pavel Korolyov/AFP via Getty Images
Redeem now
The US has warned Hong Kong against becoming a "safe haven" for sanctioned oligarchs, per the FT.
Sanctioned billionaire Alexei Mordashov's $500 million yacht moored in a Hong Kong ha... |
07.10.2022 | Sanctioned Russian billionaire's $500 million superyacht leaves Russia after 7 months to sail to Hong Kong | Nord, a luxury yacht believed to be owned by Russian billionaire Alexei Mordashov, has sailed from Russia to Hong Kong. Getty Images/PAVEL KOROLYOV/AFP via Getty Images
Redeem now
A superyacht owned by a sanctioned Russian billionaire left ... |
20.07.2022 | The unsinkable potential of autonomous boats | The Mayflower Autonomous Ship finally arrived on the coast of Nova Scotia last month, marking the end of its long trek across the Atlantic. While the modern Mayflower is far from the first vessel to make that voyage, this small robotic boat... |
05.07.2022 | The fight against inflation starts at sea | Everything from children’s toys and furniture to guacamole has gotten more expensive, so it’s not surprising that inflation is top of mind for many Americans. But with the midterm elections drawing closer — and Republicans hammering the Whi... |
22.05.2022 | OSINT самолетов, пароходов и поездов | Предлагаем вашему вниманию набор инструментов от мировых профессионалов в области OSINT, которые помогут в ваших поисках информации, связанных с транспортом. Если вы решили заняться автостопом, авиастопом или хотите поймать попутный грузово... |
04.04.2022 | Roman Abramovich’s $600M superyacht leaves Turkish port as scrutiny mounts | More On: roman abramovich
Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich’s secretive $1B superyacht fleet revealed What it’s really like to be poisoned in Russia — and survive ‘Are we dying?’ Roman Abramovich feared for his life after apparent poisoning... |
04.04.2022 | Roman Abramovich’s $600M superyacht leaves Turkish port as scrutiny mounts | More On: roman abramovich
Russian oligarch pushes new Ukraine peace talks after assets frozen: report Cubs owners drop Chelsea bid after fury over Islamophobic comments Roman Abramovich-linked assets worth $7B seized in tax haven island of ... |
21.03.2022 | Meet Vladimir Potanin, the richest man in Russia. He's worth R371 billion, plays ice hockey with Putin | Potanin reportedly has close ties with Vladimir Putin.
Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images
Vladimir Potanin is the richest man in Russia, worth an estimated R371 billion.
He's been known to vacation on yachts and play ice hockey with Russian Presi... |
12.03.2022 | Who is Alisher Usmanov, the sanctioned Russian billionaire said to be one of Putin's 'favourite oligarchs'? | The EU said Alisher Usmanov has "particularly close ties" to the Kremlin, calling him one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's "favorite oligarchs."
Both images: Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images
Alisher Usmanov is among the... |
11.03.2022 | Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s superyachts flee to sea as sanctions hit | More On: roman abramovich
How NYC’s most successful art tycoon courted Russian oligarchs to build gallery empire Chelsea soccer team’s assets frozen as UK sanctions owner UK imposes asset freezes on Abramovich, Rosneft boss Sechin Video: Co... |
11.03.2022 | Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s superyachts flee to sea as sanctions hit | More On: roman abramovich
Russian oligarch pushes new Ukraine peace talks after assets frozen: report Cubs owners drop Chelsea bid after fury over Islamophobic comments Roman Abramovich-linked assets worth $7B seized in tax haven island of ... |
10.03.2022 | Russian billionaire's superyacht has stopped sending its tracking signal after leaving port in Montenegro, report says | The Galactica Super Nova yacht owned by Vagit Alekperov. Heesen Yachts
Tracking signals from a yacht owned by Vagit Alekperov stopped last week, per The Daily Beast.
The Galactica Super Nova was last detected after leaving Montenegro, Marin... |
03.03.2022 | At least 5 superyachts belonging to Russian billionaires are anchored in or cruising around the Maldives | Russians own about 7% to 10% of all superyachts in the world, according to Superyacht News.
Christopher Pike/Reuters.
More Russian-owned superyachts are making their way to the Maldives amid sweeping Western sanctions.
The Maldives does not... |
02.03.2022 | Hackers changed call sign of a Putin-linked superyacht to 'FCKPTN' and set its destination as 'hell' | Russian President Vladimir Putin's superyacht seen moored at the port of Sochi, Russia, in 2015.
Marcus Brandt/picture alliance via Getty Images
Members of the "hacktivist" collective Anonymous have messed with a superyacht believ... |
23.01.2022 | How Venezuela’s Socialists United Is Finding Ways Around Oil Sanctions | Russia, China, Indonesia and European oil traders continue helping sanctioned Venezuelan oil find ... [+] its way through the Malacca Strait in Asia.KMR Images |
06.12.2021 | Trident acquires new 300-foot at-sea processing vessel | Trident Seafoods announced it has acquired a 300-foot at-sea processing vessel from Aleutian Spray Fisheries Inc., along with two other vessels, for an undisclosed sum.
The largest vessel, Starbound, was originally built in 1989 as a 240-fo... |
25.11.2021 | Необыкновенные приключения AIS в Китае, или как найти корабль в море | Необыкновенные приключения AIS в Китае, или как найти корабль в море
Во многих сообществах, интересующихся движением кораблей по морям, недавно появилась новость, что “в Китае запретили AIS” и всё в таком духе. Как обычно, в заголовках боль... |
23.11.2021 | Wärtsilä partners with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore to co-develop next-generation safer and greener smart port solutions | Wärtsilä partners with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore to co-develop next-generation safer and greener smart port solutions Tue, Nov 23, 2021 11:00 CET
Wärtsilä Corporation, Trade press release, 23 November 2021 at 12 pm EET Wä... |
23.11.2021 | Wärtsilä Oyj : Wärtsilä partners with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore to co-develop next-generation safer and greener smart port solutions | Wärtsilä Voyage has signed a strategic partnership with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA).
Working together, the two will identify synergies between Wärtsilä's Navi-Port solution and MPA's maritime digital platforms and shi... |
24.08.2021 | AFP charge container ship master over Vocus subsea cable damage | The Australian Federal Police has laid charges against the 59-year-old master of container ship Maersk Surabaya for allegedly damaging Vocus’ Australia-Singapore Cable at the start of August.
As reported by iTnews, police opened an investig... |
07.07.2021 | The Ever Given has been released, more than 3 months after it first got stuck, following a protracted fight for compensation with Egypt | The Ever Given sailing down the Suez Canal near Ismailia, Egypt, on July 7, 2021. Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
The Ever Given has been released by the Suez Canal Authority is – slowly -resuming its journey.
It spent months in custody while Eg... |
10.06.2021 | A cargo ship from Durban to Asia is now headed to Italy - after two months and a dead captain | The Ever Given blocking the Suez Canal.
Container ship Ital Libera left Durban on 1 April on its "express" route to ports in Asia.
Two months later, it is now in the Red Sea, headed for Italy, for the repatriation of the remains o... |
29.03.2021 | Suez Canal blockage: What does this mean for global trade? | This satellite image from Maxar Technologies shows the cargo ship MV Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal near Suez, Egypt, Sunday, March 28, 2021. Source: ©Maxar Technologies via AP.
In the early hours of March 23, the container ship Ever Gi... |
26.02.2021 | Explosion strikes Israeli-owned ship in Mideast amid tension | DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An explosion struck an Israeli-owned cargo ship sailing out of the Middle East on Friday, an unexplained blast renewing concerns about ship security in the region amid escalating tensions between the U.S. ... |
05.01.2021 | Iran seizes a South Korean ship after the USS Nimitz does a U-turn | A U.S. Air Force B-52 from Minot Air Force Base is aerial refueled by a KC-135 Stratotanker over the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility Dec. 30, 2020. The B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range, heavy bomber that is capable of flying ... |
11.08.2020 | Galápagos: The Reality Of Our Insatiable Demand For Seafood | 2
2
Shares
12 Mins Read
This article is republished with permission from OceansAsia, a Hong Kong-based nonprofit organisation dedicated to ocean conservation and exposing wildlife crimes and activities that are polluting our marine ecosyste... |
21.01.2020 | SA internet update: Repair ship departure pushed to Wednesday evening, says Openserve | Source: Marine Traffic
The expected time of departure of the Leon Thevenin has been pushed back to Wednesday 22 January at 6pm.
We now know the repair ship is commissioned to fix both undersea cables that broke and brought about SA’s slow i... |
20.01.2020 | Slow internet in SA: Still no end in sight, Openserve admits, as cable repair ship gets ready to leave Cape Town | Source: Marine Traffic
Before it can give an accurate estimate when South Africa’s slowed internet will be back up to speed, a repair crew will need to reach the broken undersea cables that caused the trouble, Openserve said.
It could take ... |
16.12.2019 | An Aggressive Turkey Is Raising Risks Of Conflict In The Mediterranean Sea | The Turkish Navy supports Turkish drill ships in the Eastern Mediterranean. (Photo by ... [+] Turkish National Defence Ministry / Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)Getty Images |
29.08.2019 | Apostolos Apostolakis: Five Years Ago In Greece There Was More Funding Than Eligible Entrepreneurs To Claim It. There’s Balance Today. | Trending Topics has started a series of interviews with venture capital, private equity, and angel investors from Bulgaria and Eastern Europe, to better understand their mindset, strategies, and put together a well-rounded picture of the in... |
11.04.2014 | Trade’s influence on the two Koreas in one dramatic map | |
30.07.2013 | Professor fools $80M superyacht’s GPS receiver on the high seas | A team from the University of Texas spoofed the GPS receiver on a live superyacht in the Ionian Sea.
Todd Humphreys reader comments 97 with 61 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
One of ... |
- | A $325 million superyacht linked to a sanctioned Russian oligarch has docked in Fiji after an 18-day voyage across the Pacific | Russian billionaire Suleyman Kerimov. AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko
A luxury yacht linked to sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleyman Kerimov moored in Fiji, tracking data shows.
The $325 million vessel, Amadea, sailed for 18 days across th... |
- | A $500 million superyacht thought to belong to a Russian oligarch has docked back in Russia after he was sanctioned | Alexei Mordashov is believed to be the owner of Nord, a 465-foot vessel. Axel Heimken/Picture Alliance via Getty Images, Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images
A superyacht said to belong to Alexei Mordashov has returned to Russia after he was sancti... |
- | Multiple people injured after ship dislodged at Scottish dry dock | Multiple people suffered injuries after a large ship tipped over in a dry dock in Leith, near Edinburgh, Scotland.
The Scottish Ambulance Service said that 15 patients were transported to the hospital, with a further 10 people treated and d... |
- | Gibraltar seized a $75 million superyacht owned by a sanctioned Russian oligarch, the local government said | Dmitry Pumpyansky's superyacht Axioma. Gerard Bottino/Shutterstock
Gibraltar's government said on Monday it seized a $75 million yacht owned by a Russian oligarch.
The government told Insider that the yacht, Axioma, was owned by the billion... |
- | France seizes superyacht linked to Russia’s Sechin as oligarch assets get targeted | According to a translation of a letter shared in the tweet, French authorities seized the Amore Velo yacht on March 2, after a check that took several hours.
The 280-foot yacht was seized in the La Ciotat shipyards, on the south coast of Fr... |
- | Ukraine’s first grain shipment in months leaves port; Putin says navy will be armed with hypersonic missiles | This is CNBC’s live blog tracking developments on the war in Ukraine. See below for the latest updates. |
- | Russian oligarch's $300 million superyacht hides in plain sight in UAE's neutral waters, avoiding sanctions | Andrey Melnichenko. Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images
The 390ft superyacht has been anchored in the United Arab Emirates for weeks. The vessel belongs to Russian oligarch Andrey Melnichenko, worth an estimated $23 billion. Italian authorities se... |
- | Meet the world’s first electric autonomous container ship | The Yara Birkeland, the world’s first net-zero, battery-powered autonomous container ship, was delivered to Norwegian fertilizer company Yara Norge AS in November 2020. It’s currently in the Norwegian port of Horten, where it’s undergoing f... |
- | Who is Alisher Usmanov, the sanctioned Russian billionaire said to be one of Putin's 'favorite oligarchs'? | The EU said Alisher Usmanov has "particularly close ties" to the Kremlin, calling him one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's "favorite oligarchs." Both images: Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images
Alisher Usmanov is among the... |
- | 5 трендовых сайтов марта | В рамках проекта «Parser.Click» я постоянно анализирую сайты, показавшие резкий рост за последние 30 дней, и самые интересные примеры детально описываю. Для чего? Чтобы искать идеи для новых направлений, следить за рабочими методами продвиж... |
- | Incident with multiple tankers in Gulf of Oman raises concerns in oil market | The status of at least four tankers in the Gulf of Oman is uncertain and another was reportedly hijacked by gunman believed to be from Iran.
Oil prices were weaker Tuesday on concerns about Covid affecting demand, and were not being impacte... |
- | As it happened: Cities pulverized and thousands dead in first 3 weeks of Russia's invasion of Ukraine | A firefighter comforts a woman outside a destroyed apartment building after a bombing in a residential area in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 15, 2022. AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda
Key Updates
This post is no longer live
Since Feb. 24, Russian troops hav... |
- | Greenpeace activists chained themselves to a tanker carrying Russian oil in a failed attempt to keep it from docking in Norway | Greenpeace activists tried to block tanker Ust Luga from unloading Russian oil in the harbor of Aasgaardstrand, Norway on Monday. Ole Berg-Rusten/NTB/AFP/Getty Images
Redeem now
Greenpeace activists attempted to block a tanker carrying Russ... |
- | A $325 million superyacht linked to a sanctioned Russian oligarch is on an epic journey west across the Pacific Ocean | Suleyman Kerimov, thought to be Russia's ninth-richest person. Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images
A superyacht linked to a sanctioned Russian oligarch is on an epic journey across the Pacific. The $325 million, 350-foot Amadea is heading to Fiji ... |
- | Lebanon to invite US to mediate Israel maritime border talks | Beirut, Lebanon – Lebanon has agreed to call on the United States to resume mediating indirect maritime border talks, after a ship arrived in disputed waters to produce gas for Israel.
President Michel Aoun and caretaker Prime Minister Naji... |
- | A sanctioned Russian oligarch's $65 million superyacht is on its way to Turkey | "Clio" - previously dubbed "Queen K" - is believed to belong to sanctioned Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska. Ali Balli/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.
A superyacht believed to belong to Oleg Deripaska is on its way to Tur... |
- | Sanctioned Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich tried to offload his vast assets amid clampdowns on the country's oligarchs. Take a look at his luxury empire, including the 3rd-largest yacht in the wo... | In 2008, Abramovich's net worth peaked at a reported $23.5 billion. Reuters
Billionaire Roman Abramovich was once the richest known man in Russia.
He was one of seven Russian oligarchs sanctioned by the UK government on March 10.
Before bei... |
- | Greece seized a Russian oil tanker with 19 crew on board under Ukraine sanctions, reports say | The Russia-flagged oil tanker Pegas at a port in western Turkey on January 16, 2022. REUTERS/Yoruk Isik
Greece said it seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker under Ukraine sanctions, per Reuters.
The tanker, Pegas, was forced to moor off the G... |
- | Tesla Model 3 comes to Europe with first massive shipment arriving at Zeebrugge port | As of writing this, there are hundreds of millions of dollars/euros worth of Tesla Model 3 vehicles on several giant ships in the Atlantic ocean heading to European ports. The first one has arrived in Belgium as Tesla prepares deliveries.
L... |
- | Russian oligarch Abramovich’s two superyachts worth a combined $1 billion are escaping sanctions — for now | Two superyachts belonging to Russian oligarch docked in Turkey this week, avoiding seizure by Western authorities.
The Chelsea FC owner is subject to EU and U.K. sanctions.
Turkey, a non-EU country but a NATO member, is opposed to sanctions... |
- | At least 5 superyachts belonging to Russian billionaires are anchored or cruising around the Maldives amid sweeping sanctions: report | Russians own about 7% to 10% of all superyachts in the world, according to Superyacht News. Christopher Pike/Reuters.
More Russian-owned superyachts are making their way to the Maldives amid sweeping Western sanctions.
The Maldives does not... |
- | Meet Tinkoff Bank, one of the only major Russian banks to avoid Western sanctions, and the last reliable link tech companies have to pay workers abroad | Oleg Tinkov, the Russian founder of Tinkoff Bank. Donat Sorokin/TASS via Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Founded by a wealthy Russian, Tinkoff is said to be g... |