Maritime Insights
Maritime risk, translated into commercial exposure.
Analysis of commercial shipping, maritime security, energy flows, insurance exposure, ports, chokepoints and operational maritime risk.
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INSIGHTS
Longer-form Optarus analysis sits here as a separate publication stream from FA-72 Flashes, Alerts, Assessment Updates, Commercial Transit Risk Monitors and Open-Source Assessments.
Regional Insights
Regional change, interpreted for decision-makers.
Analysis of geopolitical, security, humanitarian and strategic developments across the Red Sea, Gulf, Horn of Africa and connected regions.
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Maritime Insights
Free public analysis during the Optarus launch period. Newest publications appear first.
Putting a Price on Hormuz Exposure
How the Gulf of Oman ship-to-ship transfer system is keeping oil moving — and creating new risk
Physical oil flows are being preserved through shuttle movements and ship-to-ship transfers, but the workaround consumes vessel capacity and shifts exposure into additional transfer, scheduling, insurance and contractual layers.
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Regional Insights
Longer-form analysis of connected geopolitical, security, humanitarian and strategic change.
Northern Ethiopia Reopens
The Emerging Tigray–Afar–Djibouti Pressure Corridor
Renewed conflict is concentrated in Tigray and adjacent areas. Afar now forms the key transmission geography to monitor, while disruption to the Ethiopia–Djibouti commercial corridor is not currently established.
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