microblog · @hull_and_wake · osint · 2 February 2026, 12:30
Annex I is out. 42 firms designated across Panama, the Marshalls, Singapore, Canada. Seven ice-class hulls named.
Polar Starling and Nordic Trader are both mid-ocean, Halifax to Nuuk, and their Scandinavian underwriters have just pulled their P&I certificates. Those crews are at sea, uninsured, and legally entitled to refuse to continue.
Sixty-four pages designate forty-two logistics firms and pull the insurance out from under the Arctic sealift. Two chartered freighters bound for Nuuk lose their indemnity certificates at sea.
the thing nobody tells you about living through history is how much of it is just checking your phone at work and going "oh no" and then serving the next customer