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
OSG gifts investors with first dividend since 2016 spin-off
OSG has announced its first cash dividend since its troubled restructuring in 2016 that saw it spin off its international tanker business, International Seaways. Chief executive Ed Norton says OSG’s board ‘expects the consideration of the payment of regular quarterly dividends to be on its agenda in the future’
Oaktree offloads $84.6m of Torm shares
US private equity giant Oaktree Capital Management has sold 2.8m of Torm shares for about $84.6m, over eight months after it abandoned a planned market sale of 5m shares when the stock tanked
Genco agrees $500m RCF
Genco Shipping has closed on a $500m revolving credit facility, expanding its borrowing capacity by 46% from $156m. The facility includes a sustainability-linked feature, with interest rates rising or falling by a margin of 0.05% based on fleetwide carbon emissions targets
Port of NY & NJ banks busiest month of 2023 so far
The strong cargo volumes seen at the largest Atlantic gateway in October meant this was its busiest month of the year so far as retail demand boosted imports
Houthis escalate Red Sea attacks on commercial shipping with strikes against three vessels
The Houthis have escalated their Red Sea threat with four attacks on three commercial ships in a span of just seven hours. A spokesperson for the Houthis mentioned attacks on only two vessels, which it said were due to their links to Israel, but only one of the three appears to have any such links
US slaps sanctions on three more ships over oil price cap
Ofac is continuing its crackdown on Western-linked ships in breach of the price cap, following on from two previous announcements in October and November