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IIn this episode:

Eric Priante Martin takes a peek into the tanker markets that have begun to react to the impact of Donald Trump’s moves on Venezuelan crude and Iran.

Read more: US-seized tanker emerges off Venezuela as two sit in Texas waters. Where will the latest land?

Paul Peachey has been in the UK courts listening to the trial of Captain Vladimir Motin, charged with manslaughter after his boxship, the Solong, rammed into an anchored laden tanker, creating a fireball.

Read more: Jury shown moment of fiery collision in North Sea that killed seafarer

Huaqing Ma followed the case of a missing seafarer who thought he had a job offer to join a ship, only to disappear, believed to have been abducted to work in an illegal call centre compound in Cambodia.

Read more: Are criminal syndicates kidnapping seafarers to work in scam call centres? The wife of a missing Chinese sailor believes so

Host and producer: Craig Eason

Additional reporting: Huaqing Ma, Eric Priante Martin, Paul Peachey, Yannick Guerry

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