Research and maritime intelligence from HUAX

1. HUAX editorial

   7 July 2026

   6 min read

   The Bosphorus: where legal status becomes vessel behaviour

   Ankara's summit will be remembered for numbers and communiques. The more durable maritime story sits in Istanbul: a 700-metre chokepoint where treaty status shapes vessel movement.

   By A. Longo

2. Report

   30 June 2026

   7 min read

   The Waiting Room off Johor: Iranian tankers and the maritime grey zone east of Singapore

   Three Iran-linked tankers moved westbound from the EOPL area within a narrow time window. The signal is not a declared crisis, but a behavioural monitoring zone where waiting, partial darkness and re-entry matter.

   By A. Longo & S. Khan · With Pole Star Global

3. Field briefing

   30 June 2026

   6 min read

   Mare Nostrum 2.0: why the Mediterranean is becoming one of the decade’s most important maritime corridors

   The Mediterranean is shifting from transit space to strategic corridor. Energy infrastructure, Balkan logistics, southern Italy's LNG role, and Otranto's rising visibility are creating new movement patterns, bottlenecks, and blind spots.

   By A. Longo

1. 2 May 2026A 47-vessel cluster in the Strait of Hormuz, and what it tells us about identity driftInvestigation · 12 min
2. 24 April 2026What an AIS gap actually means, and what it doesn’tMethodology · 7 min
3. 15 April 2026Why glass-box maritime intelligence, and why nowField briefing · 5 min

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