Tomer Raanan
Tomer Raanan is Lloyd’s List’s senior maritime reporter in the US. He is based in New York, where he enjoyed a decade-long career in private security before joining Lloyd’s List in 2022. Tomer Raanan has a background as a writer, researcher and analyst who has written for the South China Morning Post and Nikkei, publishers of the Financial Times, and has written, edited and translated for the Asia Policy Program in the Abba Eban Institute. He is experienced in trade & investment data analysis, in addition to FDI, security and technology issues. A graduate of SUNY Empire State College with a degree in Public Affairs, majoring in political science and economics, Tomer is also a military veteran and a devout Liverpool fan.
Latest From Tomer Raanan
D’Amico family sells $43.7m of shares in tanker outfit
Italy’s d’Amico International, a holding company that owns the majority of Milan-listed d’Amico Shipping, sold $43.7m of shares in the tanker outfit to increase trading liquidity. The move reduced its holding by 5% to 60.65%
Avance Gas generously rewards shareholders in ‘blockbusting’ quarter
Oslo-listed Avance Gas reported a record quarter that was driven by sales of three ships, but also strong freight earnings. The company announced a $2.15 per share dividend, of which $0.99 is structured as reduction in par value of the share, and the remaining $1.16 is a regular dividend
TMX pipeline an ‘interesting addition’ to VLCC market, says DHT chief
Pure play, very large crude carrier DHT is in discussions with Chinese state-owned oil companies over transhipments of TMX exports to China, DHT chief executive Svein Moxnes Harfjeld said. The company reported earning per share of $0.29, in line with analysts expectations’
NTSB says Dali suffered two blackouts before leaving port
The 9,900 teu Dali suffered several blackouts in the hours before hitting the Francis Key Scott Bridge in Baltimore, according to the preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board, including two within ten hours before it left the port
Resurgent US-China trade tiff could bring more pain to ocean shipping
US President Joe Biden announced new tariffs on $18bn of Chinese goods, ranging from electric vehicles to ship-to-shore cranes. China swiftly blasted the move and promised to retaliate, raising the prospect of escalating tariffs
Baltimore channel reopening remains on track as salvors detonate bridge truss
Salvors successfully used explosive charges to remove parts of the bridge’s wreckage from the 9,900 teu Dali, a significant step in the efforts to refloat the vessel and reopen the channel. Baltimore’s federal channel remains on track to reopen by month’s end, Maryland Governor Wes Moore told reporters on Monday ahead of the controlled detonations