Tomer Raanan
Maritime Risk Analyst
Tomer Raanan is a maritime risk analyst at Lloyd’s List, where his reporting explores how geopolitics and regulation shape seaborne commerce, and how deceptive and high-risk practices are used to evade sanctions and facilitate illicit trade.
In 2024, Tomer was named ‘Multimedia Journalist of the Year’ by the Seahorse Freight Association for uncovering a sanctions-skirting LPG shipping network tied to the owner of a London café.
Before joining Lloyd’s List in 2022 as senior reporter, he worked for a decade in private security.
Latest From Tomer Raanan
Cameroon pledges flag crackdown amid shadow fleet surge
Cameroon’s government-run ship register has been booming as a result of other flags ejecting sanctioned tonnage under pressure from the EU. Now the Yaoundé government is under pressure to crackdown as well
EU sanctions plan will complete Russia’s shift into the shadow fleet
The EU’s shift away from an oil price cap system that allowed compliant Russian trade to a complete ban is yet to be finalised and details need to be agreed. But if it is imposed it will mean that companies with a European nexus will not be lifting oil cargoes out of Russia
US presses on with Iran sanctions amid ongoing talks in Oman
The US State Department announced fresh sanctions on Iran on Friday just hours after talks between Washington and Tehran held in Oman concluded for the day. More talks are said to be slated for next week.
No shortage of targets for French interdiction in the Mediterranean
Should France want to follow up the seizure of stateless shadow fleet tanker Grinch with more interdictions, it will have no shortage of falsely flagged vessels transiting through the Mediterranean
Tensions flare as Iranian gunboats threaten to board US-flagged tanker
Tensions in the Middle East Gulf between the US and Iran, already high, escalated on Tuesday. Iran’s armed forces harassed a US-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, while US forces shot down a drone that approached a US aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea
Malaysia releases sanctioned tankers suspected of transferring Iranian oil
Malaysia’s detention of two shadow fleet tankers performing an unlicensed ship-to-ship transfer off its coast proved to be short-lived, both tankers were released following a request from a representative for the vessels