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
Greek owner Altomare was target of Iranian hackers, tanker identity theft
Separate sets of leaked documents indicate that recently sanctioned Greek shipowner Altomare was the target of cyber attacks from Iranian hackers, while its ship, Kallista, was the subject of a complex, nascent form of maritime identity theft by a US-sanctioned, Iran-trading tanker
First a seizure, now sanctions: US designates tankers for Venezuela trade after years-long lull
US pressure on Venezuela is mounting. After unveiling the seizure of the VLCC Skipper on Wednesday, the US has announced fresh sanctions on Venezuela-trading tankers, targeting six VLCCs
‘We’ve just seized a tanker’: US forces take over sanctioned, stateless VLCC off Venezuela
The US seized a sanctioned, falsely flagged tanker off the coast of Venezuela in an escalation of the Trump administration’s pressure on the Maduro regime. US Attorney General Pamela Bondi said US forces executed a seizure warrant ‘for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran’
Ukraine reportedly strikes another shadow fleet tanker in Black Sea
Maritime security sources have received reports another shadow fleet tanker has been struck by Ukraine in the Black Sea
Suspected Iran-laden gas carrier makes Bay of Bengal U-turn
A gas carrier suspected to be laden with Iranian-origin LPG made an abrupt U-turn on its way to Chittagong, and is currently on its way back to the Middle East, still laden
Spoofing gas carrier brings first Baltic LPG cargo to China in years
A gas carrier that spoofed its loading in the Baltic in October delivered what is likely the first Russia-origin LPG cargo to China in over three years