The US military chased a tanker across the world – from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean – intercepting it on Monday in Washington’s ongoing crackdown on Venezuelan oil exports. 

Vanuatu warned of a fraudulent website impersonating its registry. The unauthorised website, operating under the domain registervu.com, copied content from Vanuatu’s own registry site.  In related news, Cameroon’s government finally started to clamp down on shadow ships using its register. Cameroon has suspended new registrations of ships thought to be part of the shadow fleet, as well as setting out to deregister shadow ships that are already on its books.

In tech, Australian supply chain technology solutions provider WiseTech Global partnered with Hapag-Lloyd to trial the integration of Internet of Things (IoT) technology across the German liner’s 2 m-strong smart container fleet to create real-time global container visibility, tracking and data collection, bridging the gap between raw IoT data and actionable supply chain intelligence.

Henrik Hyldahn, group CEO of Marcura, one of shipping’s top digital solutions providers, had some candid advice for those in the ship tech space, discussing with Maritime CEO in this week’s big interview what it takes to be a winner in this hugely competitive arena.

Splash has published many Contributions lately debating the PR surrounding a seafaring career, something that has engendered much reader feedback and forms the basis for this week’s Splash Wrap podcast, carried below.