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
MSC linked to trio of secondhand boxships buys
World’s largest operator of containerships is said to have purchased a fourth Evergreen ‘U-type’ post-panamax and a pair of 4,600 teu ships from South Korea’s Kmarin
Italy’s d’Amico exercises option on MR tanker at ‘attractive’ price
Milan-listed d’Amico International Shipping has exercised a purchase option on a 2017-built MR tanker at an attractive price of $31m, which it said was ‘substantially’ below its market value. Athens-based brokers Xclusive assessed the price of a five-year-old MR at $48.2m
FAO Notifications: using NORMAL republish; US Coast Guard moves forward with acquisition of commercial icebreaker Aiviq
The US Coast Guard is set to purchase the commercial icebreaker Aiviq from a division of Edison Chouest and modify it for deployment as a polar icebreaker. The move comes amid delays and cost overruns in the USCG’s plans to construct new icebreakers
Year-to-date stock gains for bulk commodity shipping are evaporating TEST for immediate notification send
Losses for shipping equities piled up again on Monday. Container shipping shares are holding up much better than shares of bulk commodity shipping owners amid the global sell-off
Israel’s entry to sanctions game further complicates shipping’s compliance conundrum
Israel’s entry into the world of maritime sanctions adds further challenges to the shipping industry, even if the sanction’s ‘bite’ will not be the same as their Western counterparts
US slaps sanctions on Iranian commodity sellers and Burmese shipping line
The US has announced fresh sanctions under separate programmes. The two initiatives place shipping enterprises supporting Burma’s military and sellers of Iranian commodities facilitating the IRGC and Hezbollah in the sanctions spotlight