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May 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM

coffeetest somewhat dsylexic

@coffeetest.bsky.social

The What's Going on With Shipping? YT channel cover this sort of stuff really well.

www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping

What's Going on With Shipping focuses on Maritime Industry Policy, and current events in the Maritime Sector, along with Maritime History. The channel features videos that examine the world's mercha...

April 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM

Hugh Mann

@normalhughmann.bsky.social

Adding I stole it from www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping, a great source of unfiltered news about the strait.

What's Going on With Shipping focuses on Maritime Industry Policy, and current events in the Maritime Sector, along with Maritime History. The channel features videos that examine the world's mercha...

What is the Dark Fleet? | Shipping 101 | How Russia, Venezuela and Iran are Shipping Sanctioned Oil

April 8, 2026 at 2:04 PM

PKs Powerfromspace1 🚀 Last Angry Bernie Brother cast adrift 😒

@powerfromspace1.bsky.social

@wgowshipping

What is the Dark Fleet? | Shipping 101 | How #Russia, #Venezuela and #Iran are Shipping Sanctioned Oil

youtu.be/2DYtu7h2m4w?...

January 10, 2026 at 5:35 AM

MTN/LAF/UNFTR--Greed for money & power is killing America

@1of81million-kc.bsky.social

Watch Independent Reporters who have left CNN/MSNOW etc...
or Meidas Touch Network, Legal AF, (What's Going on With Shipping? @wgowshipping if you want to know how many ships are really going through the Strait of Hormuz and/or PBS/NPR

Briana @neverstopthefight.bsky.social · 14d

Hey good people, is the ban still on for @msnowevents.bsky.social @cnn.com from the Whitehouse?? Again I refuse to watch FOXX news ever. If so this is highly alarming, Fascism in real time.

September 20, 2026 at 8:53 PM

Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️

@amwclark.bsky.social

Sal is @mercoglianos.bsky.social on bluesky.
Or see his channel What's Going on With Shipping? where he posts frequently.
www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping

David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · Feb 23

From Sal Mercogliano on X, who has good merchant marine sources. Apparently we are ordering USNS Mercy to leave needed maintenance early to send the non-ice rated ship to Greenland with no planning or Arctic outfitting. (personal post only)

February 24, 2026 at 2:39 AM

karlhungus19.bsky.social

@karlhungus19.bsky.social

I hope everyone is paying attention to What's Going on with Shipping (www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping). Prof. Mercogliano posts lots of great stuff about the shipping industry, including the current status ship building by countries and questionable excuse to resume bombing Yemen.

What's Going on With Shipping focuses on Maritime Industry Policy, and current events in the Maritime Sector, along with Maritime History. The channel features videos that examine the world's mercha...

April 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM

European Angie, Earth Carer

@lifelearner47.bsky.social

Trump is sending hospital ships to Greenland ?
How, they are both in dry dock in Mobile, Alabama!
Yet another ignorant lie from the ignorant liar.
(thanks @wgowshipping for info)

February 22, 2026 at 8:33 AM

Caio Almendra

@caioalmendra.bsky.social

Exactly the one I'm talking about!

I think it's a little bit on the hawkish side, specially on matters of China, which sometimes blind them to a lot of stuff. However, it is soooooo informative!

www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping

What's Going on With Shipping focuses on Maritime Industry Policy, and current events in the Maritime Sector, along with Maritime History. The channel features videos that examine the world's mercha...

Tankers of the Caribbean - December 22, 2025, Edition

April 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM

rogue_corq

@corq.bsky.social

Tankers of the Caribbean December 22, 2025 In this episode, Sal Mercogliano — a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner — discusses the latest in tanker seizures in the Caribbean, as of December 22, 2025. #Caribbean #centruies #venezuela #blockade #embargo Support What's Going on With Shipping via: Patreon: www.patreon.com/wgowshipping Twitter: @mercoglianos Bluesky: @mercoglianos.bsky.social Facebook: @wgowshipping Email: mercoglianosal@gmail.com U.S. Pursuit of Third Oil Tanker Deepens Venezuela Blockade https://gcaptain.com/u-s-pursuit-of-third-oil-tanker-deepens-venezuela-blockade/ U.S.-Panama Supplementary Arrangement on U.S. Coast Guard Assistance https://2009-2017.state.gov/t/isn/trty/32859.htm Blacklisted Tanker ‘Bella 1’ Has a Sanctions Past Linked to Terror Financing https://gcaptain.com/tanker-bella-1-linked-to-terror-financing-and-sanctioned-oil/ Tanker Trackers on X https://x.com/TankerTrackers Tankers Make U-Turns as U.S. Pressure Chokes Venezuela Oil Loadings https://gcaptain.com/tankers-make-u-turns-as-u-s-pressure-chokes-venezuela-oil-loadings/ China Says US Seizure of Ships ‘Serious Violation’ of International Law https://gcaptain.com/china-says-us-seizure-of-ships-serious-violation-of-international-law/ SECNAV: New Frigate will be Based on National Security Cutter, First FF(X) to be Built at Ingalls https://news.usni.org/2025/12/19/secnav-new-frigate-will-be-based-on-national-security-cutter-first-ffx-to-be-built-at-ingalls

December 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM

Tomi McCluskey

@tomi-mcc.bsky.social

@mercoglianos.bsky.social hope you cover this important article on www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping when time allows!

And hope you give Christian Panton a shoutout ( @pa.nton.cx ) Bluesky Boat Crew / Ship Squad needs to celebrate each others wins!

What's Going on With Shipping focuses on Maritime Industry Policy, and current events in the Maritime Sector, along with Maritime History. The channel features videos that examine the world's mercha...

Strait of Hormuz and Dueling Blockades - The United States and Iran Block Access to the Persian Gulf

July 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM

rogue_corq

@corq.bsky.social

The United States issues its official Notice to Mariners on the blockade of Iran going into effect on April 13, 2026. What are the major issues facing the US blockade and how will it differ from the Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Contact What's Going on With Shipping via: Patreon: www.patreon.com/wgowshipping Twitter: @mercoglianos Bluesky: @mercoglianos.bsky.social Facebook: @wgowshipping Email: mercoglianosal@gmail.com Marine Traffic www.marinetraffic.com Double blockade piles more uncertainty on to shipowners https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1156891/Double-blockade-piles-more-uncertainty-on-to-shipowners Newport Manual on the Law of Naval Warfare, Second Edition https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/ils/vol105/iss1/1/ Repeating Venezuela-Blockade Move Is Far Riskier Bet in Hormuz https://gcaptain.com/repeating-venezuela-blockade-move-is-far-riskier-bet-in-hormuz/

April 13, 2026 at 10:13 PM

cherrycapital.bsky.social

@cherrycapital.bsky.social

An expert on maritime matters who runs a channel called What's Going on With Shipping. He's here on BSky too, @mercoglianos.bsky.social.

www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping

What's Going on With Shipping focuses on Maritime Industry Policy, and current events in the Maritime Sector, along with Maritime History. The channel features videos that examine the world's mercha...

It Was A Bad Day for Merchant Mariners in the Strait of Hormuz | March 11, 2026

April 12, 2026 at 3:08 PM

Eileen Clancy 🧿

@clancyny.bsky.social

Since a few people are interested, a maritime expert made a video showing the track of the boat that hit the bridge in Baltimore. He made it the afternoon of the same day (Tuesday). See his Twitter for more up-to-date info. [@]mercoglianos

[Judge me if you must. I need news I can't get here.]

March 29, 2024 at 12:40 AM

PKs Powerfromspace1 🚀 Last Angry Bernie Brother cast adrift 😒

@powerfromspace1.bsky.social

@wgowshipping

It Was A Bad Day for Merchant Mariners 🛳️ in the Strait of Hormuz | March 11, 2026

youtu.be/sXNHYWyRAl0?...

#whatsgoingonwithshipping
#hormuz
#iran
#usa
#shipping
3/12/2026

March 12, 2026 at 5:58 AM

Jasper 'Lope

@jasperlope.bsky.social

(Grain of salt: everything I know about shipping I learned from this channel in the last six weeks: youtube.com/@wgowshipping)

What's Going on With Shipping focuses on Maritime Industry Policy, and current events in the Maritime Sector, along with Maritime History. The channel features videos that examine the world's mercha...

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May 4, 2026 at 3:19 AM

Gaby

@gabyblanco.bsky.social

#WGOWShipping #SalMercogliano

youtu.be/5Mfj2JSpng4?...

Russian Shadow Tanker Blocked from Sailing to Venezuela from Cuba | USS Stockdale vs MT Seahorse

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November 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM

Nate Cochrane

@natecochrane.bsky.social

Sal’s shipping channel WGOWShipping is still the best insight for a lay audience into global shipping but he’s 100% wrong on this point.

ALT: a man in a blue shirt with a star trek logo on the front

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December 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM

PKs Powerfromspace1

@powerfromspace1.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy

@wgowshipping

What is the Dark Fleet? | Shipping 101 | How #Russia, #Venezuela and #Iran are Shipping Sanctioned Oil

https://youtu.be/2DYtu7h2m4w?si=D4_49F-RobqapqUW

January 10, 2026 at 5:36 AM

Duncan Jones

@manmademoon.bsky.social

Fair. I will be watching Whats Going on With Shipping when they update to see what the host has to say about it-
www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping

What's Going on With Shipping focuses on Maritime Industry Policy, and current events in the Maritime Sector, along with Maritime History. The channel features videos that examine the world's mercha...

May 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM

mr natural

@dempr.bsky.social

This is an excellent non-partisan YouTube channel to follow regarding shipping and port activity. Offers a lot of information on how to track what is coming and going in US ports.

www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping

What's Going on With Shipping focuses on Maritime Industry Policy, and current events in the Maritime Sector, along with Maritime History. The channel features videos that examine the world's mercha...

Should the United States Authorize Privateers | The Historical Case of Privateering

April 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM

rogue_corq

@corq.bsky.social

Should the US Authorize Privateers? January 22, 2026 In this episode, Sal Mercogliano — a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner — discusses Senator Mike Lee's and Congressman's Tim Burchett Cartel Marque and Reprisal Authorization Act of 2025. #supplychain #privateer #shipping Support What's Going on With Shipping via: Patreon: www.patreon.com/wgowshipping Twitter: @mercoglianos Bluesky: @mercoglianos.bsky.social Facebook: @wgowshipping Email: mercoglianosal@gmail.com Patriots of the Caribbean: Lee Bill Authorizes American Privateers to Seize Cartel Assets with President’s Approval https://www.lee.senate.gov/2025/12/patriots-of-the-caribbean-lee-bill-authorizes-american-privateers-to-seize-cartel-assets-with-president-s-approval/6ed7fad5-5b91-47c0-aa8a-4b64ece3d16d H.R.1238 - Cartel Marque and Reprisal Authorization Act of 2025 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1238 S.3567 - Cartel Marque and Reprisal Authorization Act of 2025 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3567/text Report to Congress on Letters of Marque and Reprisal https://news.usni.org/2025/02/27/report-to-congress-on-letters-of-marque-and-reprisal U.S. Forces Seize Sanctioned Tanker ‘Sagitta’ in Caribbean, Marking Seventh Vessel Captured https://gcaptain.com/u-s-forces-seize-sanctioned-tanker-sagitta-in-caribbean-marking-seventh-vessel-captured/ Could Ukraine Recruit Privateers? https://gcaptain.com/ukraine-privateers/ Small Boats and Daring Men: Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy (Volume 66) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41585981-small-boats-and-daring-men Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58999174-rebels-at-sea

#WGOWShipping
#SalMercogliano

youtu.be/th66D6t0Rt0?...

January 22, 2026 at 8:35 PM

Gaby

@gabyblanco.bsky.social

What the Ship (Ep137) | Top 5 Viewer Topics for 2025 | Sal's Top 5 Moments for 2025

#WGOWShipping #SalMercogliano

youtu.be/s-XPJsB53CU?...

January 1, 2026 at 12:34 AM

Gaby

@gabyblanco.bsky.social

Sanctioned Tanker Marinera (the former Bella 1) - Russian-flagged and Heading Eastbound and Down!

China Update provides viewers with the most up to date political, economic, and geostrategic analysis on China - so that you are on top of the world's number 2 economy. I am originally a lawyer who l...

January 4, 2026 at 1:05 AM

John

@juanvaldes.bsky.social

If you are interested in this stuff I highly recommend www.youtube.com/@ChinaUpdate and www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping

Please ignore the clickbait titles for CU but both are excellent grounded actors with deep knowledge in their respective areas.

China Update