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 registriesJonas 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 $4.8bnAnd 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 episodeShort of cash: Tor Olav Troim VLCC venture pushes back shipyard payments to buy timeBlacklisted oil trader 2Rivers to wind up under ‘extraordinary’ sanctions pressureNew US-listed Latsis family vehicle pivots to product tanker investmentsTorm buys 13 leased tankers and sells older vessels as profit slashedWhy tankers are to blame for jellyfish stowaways shutting down a French nuclear power station Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.