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
Iranian energy exports keep flowing as Trump threatens secondary sanctions
The US has piled on designations on Iran amid the Trump administration’s ‘maximum pressure 2.0’, but these has thus far failed to dent Tehran’s exports. On Thursday, Trump threatened to ‘immediately’ impose secondary sanctions on anyone buying Iranian oil or petrochemicals
Houthis holding ships at gunpoint, UKMTO warns
The Houthis are threatening violence against ships seeking to leave the port of Ras Isa, according to the UKMTO; the port was devastated by US strikes in mid-April
US targets tankers and entities in fresh Iran sanctions
The US is continuing to blacklist operators in Iran’s oil trade amid talks over a nuclear deal with Tehran, which are set to continue for the fourth consecutive weekend on Saturday
US sanctions first vessels for trading with Houthis after Ofac deadline
The US sanctioned an LPG carrier and two tankers for discharging cargoes in Houthi-controlled ports after the April 4 deadline it announced in March
FMC awards Samsung Electronics America $3.7m in demurrage suit against Zim
‘The parties thoroughly litigated the case,’ concluded chief administrative law judge Erin Wirth in her initial decision awarding SEA $3.7m in damages in its case against Zim