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Articles, briefs and dossiers across 5 desks. Every piece opens on the reading surface — type size and the Paper theme are one tap from the header.
Thud Ridge: how a nuclear bomber became the workhorse of Rolling Thunder
The F-105 was designed to run a single tactical nuke to a Soviet target at low level. Instead it flew three-quarters of the strike missions against North Vietnam — and lost nearly half its production run doing it.
- NRG·brief·1 min·demo content17 Sept
TTF: storage is full, the risk is in the flow
European storage entered autumn above the five-year average. That is a cushion, not a hedge — a cold winter and a supply interruption together would still drain it by February.
- SHP·brief·1 min·demo content15 Sept
VLCC: the premium is in the ballast leg
TD3C has firmed without a matching move in cargo volumes. Owners are pricing the risk of waiting empty inside the Gulf — the ballast leg — rather than the laden transit out.
- GEO·dossier·1 min·demo content14 Sept
Strait of Hormuz
The 21-nautical-mile gap between Iran and the Musandam peninsula through which roughly a fifth of the world's traded oil and LNG passes. The single most consequential chokepoint for the energy and freight desks.
- SHP·article·1 min·demo content12 Sept
The long way round: what the Red Sea diversions did to the box market
When container lines stopped transiting Bab el-Mandeb, they did not lose ships — they lost weeks. The maths of a 10-to-14-day detour explains almost everything that followed in rates, schedules and port congestion.
- AIR·dossier·1 min·demo content10 Sept
Republic F-105 Thunderchief
Single-seat supersonic strike fighter; the USAF's primary conventional bomber over North Vietnam and the origin of the Wild Weasel SEAD mission.
- SHP·article·2 min·demo content08 Sept
Every ro-ro is a sealift ship
Strategic sealift is not a navy. It is a car carrier under charter, a ferry with a strengthened deck, an LNG tanker whose route is a matter of state. Reading the merchant fleet as a military asset is the habit this journal exists to teach.
- SHP·dossier·1 min·demo content06 Sept
Pure car and truck carrier (PCTC)
The ro-ro that moves the world's cars is also the ro-ro that would move an armoured brigade. A vessel class whose civilian and military readings are almost the same ship.
- NRG·article·1 min·demo content04 Sept
The gas price is a geopolitical price
Oil has a hundred sellers and a global tanker fleet. Gas has pipelines, a handful of LNG exporters, and a shipping leg that runs through the same chokepoints as everything else. That is why TTF moves on headlines that Brent ignores.