TradeWinds Wavelength - a weekly shipping news show15 Aug 2025

Tracking the man linked to a ship registry on an uninhabited island

In this week's episode:

Eric Priante Martin has been talking to the Center for Advanced Defense Studies which has been tracking the activities of Suniel Kuma Sharma. Sharma has been travelling the world opening ship registries including one on small Pacific island inhabited only by seabirds.

False flag agent: Meet the man linked to a network of illicit ship registries

Jonas Walsgard looks into the Norwegian Sovereign wealth fund, the largest in the world, and what shipping assets it has sold or bought in the first half of this year.

Norwegian sovereign wealth fund swoops for Maersk shares as shipping book grows to $4.8bn

And Holly Birkett is on the podcast to talk about the reaction to her opinion piece on the role of shipbrokers and sanctions regimes that has got our subscribers' attention.

Producer and host: Craig Eason.

Editorial input from: Eric Priante Martin, Jonas Walsgard, Holly Birkett, Yannick Guerry.

A TradeWinds/DN Media podcast.

Other news in this episode

Short of cash: Tor Olav Troim VLCC venture pushes back shipyard payments to buy time

Blacklisted oil trader 2Rivers to wind up under ‘extraordinary’ sanctions pressure

New US-listed Latsis family vehicle pivots to product tanker investments

Torm buys 13 leased tankers and sells older vessels as profit slashed

Why tankers are to blame for jellyfish stowaways shutting down a French nuclear power station

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