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@mercoglianos Avatar @mercoglianos Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️

Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️ posts on X about sea, pearl harbor, insurance, marshall the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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Social category influence countries XXXXX% finance #3195 technology brands XXXX% travel destinations XXXX% currencies XXXX% social networks XXXX%

Social topic influence sea #840, pearl harbor #63, insurance #53, marshall #849, marshall islands #23, guyana #70, japan 3.41%, ukraine #495, has been #1333, panama #177

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"Today's World Maritime History class @campbelledu pitted half the class (the British Grand & Battlecruiser Fleets) against the German (High Seas Fleet and Scouting Group). Interesting decisions made by the students assuming the roles of Hipper Scheer Jellicoe and Beatty"
X Link 2025-11-19T17:15Z 63.9K followers, 3209 engagements

"The crew from Gambia-flagged tanker MT Kairos make preparations to abandon ship following Ukranian sea drone attack in the southwestern Black Sea on November XX 2025"
X Link 2025-11-30T16:26Z 63.9K followers, 228.1K engagements

"1/Investigations Show Failures Behind Carrier Harry S. Truman Collision Loss of X Super Hornets Working on a video breakdown of the collision between USS Harry S Truman vs Besiktas-M off the Suez Canal on Feb XX 2025"
X Link 2025-12-05T14:52Z 63.9K followers, 20.5K engagements

"@Herewar66545077 @grok Midway would have still happened. What would not have happened was some of the raids but the US was sending in huge convoys of tankers to offload in the months after Pearl Harbor"
X Link 2025-12-07T17:52Z 63.9K followers, 1461 engagements

"@Robertwaldeck @TheNextJebBush The US war gamed twice raids on Pearl Harbor but they were by single carriers. The Japanese it was expected could not mount such a raid unless it came from the Marshall Islands. The US had air patrols to the south and had Enterprise and Lexington out in that area"
X Link 2025-12-07T22:31Z 64K followers, XX engagements

"American intelligence had the Japanese carriers in Hawaii and not the Marshall Islands. Lexington and Enterprise were scouting toward the west of Pearl and they had PBYs forward based at Midway and Johnson Is. The US war planned attacks from the Marshall Is but that was after the start of a war. Even with the Japanese attack on Port Arthur the US did not foresee an attack without a declaration of war or that the war would start to the east of the date line"
X Link 2025-12-08T02:24Z 64K followers, XX engagements

"@CourtneyRigo The bigger issues was the loss of training and logistic shortages. There would not be enough fuel; morale would decline with crews away from their families; lack of maintenance and overhaul capability; and the wear and tear on the ships"
X Link 2025-12-08T02:30Z 63.9K followers, 4861 engagements

"@GV7693071132234 The fleet problems of 1933 and 1938 all assumed the US to be in a state of war and in the first had the Japanese controlling Pearl Harbor"
X Link 2025-12-08T16:45Z 64K followers, 1367 engagements

"@SternabR6 According to H.P. Wilmott's Pearl Harbor: Out of XXX planes: XX lost XXX damaged Pretty sure that is 1/3"
X Link 2025-12-09T02:46Z 64K followers, XXX engagements

"@dgreen7230 @SanDad002 @JustInF75983016 I would add Rana Mitter's Forgotten Ally"
X Link 2025-12-09T02:46Z 63.9K followers, XX engagements

"No. 4.5M barrels of oil in the farm. The XX oilers available to the Pacific Fleet could move 750k bbls. Consumption for the first nine days of operations was 750k bbls - per Admiral Calhoun in the Pearl Harbor Attack Hearings in 1946. Admiral King allocated XX commercial tankers in January to provide the necessary transport of oil to the Pacific Fleet. Any tank would have a hard time destroying all the tanks in a 3rd wave due to AAA smoke from the fires and fighter defense. Even if Japan managed to destroy half of the available fuel; the US would have curtailed its early raids but it was"
X Link 2025-12-09T02:58Z 63.9K followers, XX engagements

"5The infamous 3rd Wave. Japan commenced launching at 0610 hours. Fuchdia broadcast 'Tora Tora Tora' at 0749. By 1000 the last Japanese aircraft depart. The roughly X hour flight back to the Japanese carriers put them all back on deck by 1200. The Japanese lose XX aircraft with XX damaged out of XXX. That is approximately 1/3 of their aircraft. They would need to prepare the 3rd Wave to strike the fuel tanks and navy yard; but also a 4th Wave to prepare to hit any US naval forces at sea - particularly the X US carriers that were missing. A 3rd Wave would also encounter prepared defenses both"
X Link 2025-12-07T15:50Z 64.1K followers, 77.7K engagements

"True. It is not if the ships are insured in London there are XX international P&I clubs that have refused to insure ships carrying Russian oil and gas over a set price cap. What Russia has done is find other groups to insure or no insurance at all. The avoid issues by not sailing into waters that would trigger a Port State Control inspection and instead do ship to ship transfers in international waters"
X Link 2025-12-11T20:04Z 64.1K followers, 1911 engagements

"@cpgrabow And when those capable friends and allies are run out of business by the Chinese what is your answer Because at the rate of Chinese growth.that should be in a few years"
X Link 2025-12-10T19:54Z 64.1K followers, XXX engagements

"@MatthewMcCrac18 @ricwe123 The Turks are not checking this as evidenr by the ships sailing through the Straits"
X Link 2025-12-12T03:27Z 64.1K followers, XXX engagements

"@AGPamBondi That is the Guyana flagged tanker MT Skipper. She had been sitting at anchor since the end of October"
X Link 2025-12-12T03:56Z 64.1K followers, 1187 engagements

"The grounding of tanker Kairos off the coast of Bulgaria highlights the danger of the Russia shadow fleet. 1No registry or insurance 2Ship now becomes the problem of Bulgaria 3Impending environmental disaster as the ship breaks up 4Increase in War Risk across the Black Sea"
X Link 2025-12-06T15:48Z 64.1K followers, 41.3K engagements

"Third Gambia-flagged tanker Dashan in Black Sea was hit by Ukranian Sea Baby drones. The vessel is sanctioned by UK and EU. These is a question whether it has insurance coverage and has carried sanctioned cargos in the past"
X Link 2025-12-12T03:56Z 64.1K followers, 5799 engagements

"@Civixplorer Europe is substantially further North than most people believe"
X Link 2025-12-07T02:41Z 64.1K followers, 229K engagements

"Looks like it was MT Skipper; Guyana-flagged that may have been grabbed by the US"
X Link 2025-12-10T21:51Z 64.1K followers, 17.2K engagements

"Ukraine Strikes a 3rd Shadow Fleet Tanker in the Black Sea MT Dashan Struck Multiple Times Video:"
X Link 2025-12-11T01:16Z 64.1K followers, 5740 engagements

"I think I have figured out what is President Trump's PLAN B for rebuilding the US Merchant Marine. If we cant build them.seize them"
X Link 2025-12-11T02:10Z 64.1K followers, 13.8K engagements

"Let's take a moment and discuss the US seizure of MT Skipper off the coast of Venezuela. This ship sounds off several alarms for its past actions including ship-to-ship transfers of sanctioned cargo; sanctioned cargo movements; sailing into contested areas and no clear insurance and flag of registry. What promoted the seizure specifically for the US was two loads of Iranian oil shipped to China in the first half of the year. The US issues an arrest order for the ship (yes ships can be arrested). To execute this order it has to be done by law enforcement hence the US Coast Guard participation."
X Link 2025-12-11T13:09Z 64.1K followers, 71.1K engagements

"@Glenn_Diesen Steal The ship was in violation of UNCLOS Art 110(d) which means it could be boarded. The DOJ obtained an arrest warrant for the ship. Also how is this ship Venezuelan"
X Link 2025-12-12T03:34Z 64.1K followers, 8207 engagements

"@sentdefender U.S. Seizes A Shadow Fleet Super Tanker off Venezuela The Skipper Has Been Arrested Video:"
X Link 2025-12-12T03:45Z 64.1K followers, 1567 engagements

"@ogresonionsdon1 @Glenn_Diesen The US has not ratified UNCLOS but it abides by the treaty"
X Link 2025-12-12T04:00Z 64.1K followers, XXX engagements

"The reason is the tanker is owned by a Nigerian firm in the Marshall Islands. It's part of a network led by Ukrainian Viktor Artemov linked to Iran's IRGC and Hezbollah who has litigation pending in the US. Again you dont have to like it but that is the US reason for the seizure"
X Link 2025-12-12T12:28Z 64.1K followers, XX engagements

"@georgegalloway Skipper is a stateless ship and subject to boarding. A US Court issued a warrant to arrest the ship for transporting Iranian oil which is used to find the IRGC which is a designated terrorist organization"
X Link 2025-12-12T13:00Z 64.1K followers, 4060 engagements

"Today's #sealift moment Six @MSCSealift oilers out of eighteen in Norfolk. Kaiser class: USNS John Lenthall Leroy Grumman & Joshua Humphreys Lewis class: USNS Robert F Kennedy & Oscar V Peterson USNS Supply Meanwhile Kanawha is in the Caribbean Patuxent transited the Panama Canal into the Pacific and Arctic and Laramie are in the yard in Charleston"
X Link 2025-12-02T15:50Z 64K followers, 7549 engagements

"Davie Defense Closes Gulf Copper Acquisition Joining U.S. Arctic Shipbuilding Ranks"
X Link 2025-12-03T18:53Z 64K followers, 10.2K engagements

"Packed house at WorkBoat to hear a discussion on Revitalizing U.S. Icebreakers Power for the Arctic Frontier"
X Link 2025-12-03T19:23Z 64K followers, 4490 engagements

"@MatthewMcCrac18 Gambia purged the ships off their register. A nation can remove any nation off its register if it is not meeting the requirements set out by it. A ship that is not registered can be stopped as a stateless vessel if it enters its waters"
X Link 2025-12-06T23:17Z 64K followers, XXX engagements

"China Signs the Largest Commercial Ship Contract in its History XX Ships for $XXX Billion (USD) Video:"
X Link 2025-12-09T18:56Z 64K followers, 12.4K engagements

"@exit266 Wait.you are asking a nation to enforce IMO maritime rules and regulations"
X Link 2025-12-11T02:12Z 64K followers, XXX engagements

"The war games that were played in 1932 and again in 1938 had the two opponents at war and in one case had the US sailing from the West Coast to bomb a Japanese held Hawaii. No one questioned that Pearl Harbor could be a target during a war. The issue was if Japan could bomb it with a force sailing from the Home Islands and if they would do it as the opening act to a war"
X Link 2025-12-11T12:44Z 64K followers, XX engagements

"Cosco-CSSC unveil record Yuan50bn mega order of up to XX ships: The deal involves bulkers tankers containerships and ro-pax vessels"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:38Z 64K followers, 2320 engagements

"@MatthewMcCrac18 This is why you don't register your ships with FoC. There issue is that they cannot get registration through the standard open registries like Liberia Panama or Marshall Islands"
X Link 2025-12-07T00:48Z 64K followers, XXX engagements

"3When the Japanese attacked the Pacific Fleet a portion of the Atlantic Fleet was equally vulnerable and exposed. Battleships Idaho & Mississippi and heavy cruisers Tuscaloosa & Wichita were at anchorHvalfjordur Iceland; with others in Newfoundland and Bermuda. This forward deployment allowed Britain to detach Force Z and the R-class battleships to form the Eastern Fleet. Fortunately Japan did not coordinate with Germany for a strike against these ships"
X Link 2025-12-07T15:26Z 64.1K followers, 100.3K engagements

"Those fleet problems were raids by individual carriers and that assumed if the Japanese were going to strike they would approach from the Marshall Islands. No one foresaw a massed attack by six carriers and striking from the North. There was a crash program to fortify Pearl Harbor Midway Wake Guam and the Philippines. See Glen Williford's Racing the Sunrise for the details"
X Link 2025-12-07T19:36Z 64K followers, 5509 engagements

"Still just a trickle of US soyabeans to China despite trade deal US-China trade deal called for China to purchase 12m tonnes of US soyabeans by year-end; it has purchased less than a quarter of that with just three weeks to go US soyabean exports usually peak in October-November; they were down XX% year on year during these two months Year to date US crop exports are still up versus 2024 as soaring corn volumes have offset loss of soyabean cargoes"
X Link 2025-12-08T20:48Z 64K followers, 10.5K engagements

"@sx200ii @TapeesaSablin @deadhardware @Peter05122415 @LovelyRottie I am not clear in what you are saying is the lie"
X Link 2025-12-12T12:54Z 64.1K followers, XX engagements

"2The US forward deployment was part of a combined plan set forth with the British to place two fleets on Japan's flanks. The US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor along with the British Eastern Fleet at Singapore was to deter any Japanese action into SE Asia. However the Japanese attacked before the full Eastern Fleet could be assembled with only Force Z in place"
X Link 2025-12-07T15:19Z 64K followers, 115.2K engagements

"This is good news but in the present a forward deployed aircraft carrier had only XX% of the staffing for its deck and XX% of its navigation department"
X Link 2025-12-07T02:40Z 64.1K followers, 20.9K engagements

"Five things most people don't know about the Attack on Pearl Harbor. 1The US did not consider Pearl Harbor to be a target as they were unaware that Japan had developed the ability to refuel their ships at sea. At a distance of 4000 nautical miles this was about 1500 miles further than the estimated range of Japanese ships"
X Link 2025-12-07T15:16Z 64.1K followers, 1.4M engagements

"4 The Japanese went to war over oil and had to develop the means to refuel at sea to conduct this operation. Yet they failed to strike at the two oilers in port or the XXX million of barrels of oil in the tanks. Why The main reason is that the Japanese knew that US oil production was of such a level that the loss of a portion (as they could not destroy it all) would only be an inconvenience to the US. They looked at their own reserves consumption and production and knew they had to act quickly due to American naval ship production that would overwhelm them by 1944. Plus the US was having"
X Link 2025-12-07T15:33Z 64.1K followers, 84.9K engagements

"MT Skipper is now underway and heading northeast just south of Grenada. The ship has been operating over the past year from Guyana to Oman Malaysia Hong Kong Sri Lanka Iraq (not Iran) and the UAE"
X Link 2025-12-11T00:58Z 64.1K followers, 7886 engagements

"Ukraine Hits Russian Oil Rig in Caspian Sea for First Time Official Says"
X Link 2025-12-11T14:41Z 64.1K followers, 2293 engagements

"@IO_Leo_mmg Admiralty Law"
X Link 2025-12-11T15:05Z 64.1K followers, XXX engagements

"International rules-based order requires ships to have a proper registry with a nation insurance and classification society under the United Nation's International Maritime Organization and several international treaties. This ship had none of those plus it had been sanctioned by OFAC in 2022 for its links to Viktor Sergiyovich Artemov who supplies the IRGC. The ship had carried two loads of Iranian oil to China earlier this year and had just conducted a ship-to-ship transfer with another tanker to move oil to Cuba. It is unclear where Skipper was heading with approximately XXX million"
X Link 2025-12-11T17:10Z 64.1K followers, 48.1K engagements

"It seems old Richard here @ricwe123 has some pretty thin skin as he has blocked me from explaining the "international rules based order" he quoted. If you can tweet him my best"
X Link 2025-12-12T02:01Z 64.1K followers, 10.7K engagements

"Fact: Skipper was stateless and therefore under international law could be boarded Fact: The US sanctioned the ship in 2022. Fact: Dept of Justice received a court order to arrest the vessel Fact: They executed that order and are now sailing the stateless ship to Houston for adjudication"
X Link 2025-12-12T11:59Z 64.1K followers, XXX engagements

"Your wrong. UNCLOS is the recognized law of the Sea even though the US and Venezuela have both failed to ratify it. Ships are required to be registered and Skipper was not. She had been registered in Panama until XX Feb 2023 then she flew a false flag - Guyana. That exposed the ships to boarding and subsequently seizure under US law. You may not like it but it is legal. If the ship was properly registered then the US would need the agreement of the flag state to board it. I dont make the rules just let you know what they are. Nations and groups dont always abide by them. But in this case it"
X Link 2025-12-12T12:23Z 64.1K followers, XXX engagements

"@BenniKim A stateless ship that had a US Court issue an arrest warrant against for transporting Iranian oil to fund the terrorism through the IRGC"
X Link 2025-12-12T12:55Z 64.1K followers, 11.2K engagements

"Remember Eventin seized by the Germans for drifting off its coast GermanCourtBlocks Authorities From Selling Suspected Russian Oil Tanker Cargo"
X Link 2025-12-12T13:16Z 64.1K followers, 3570 engagements

"@dsracoon @BenniKim She showed a Guyana flag on AIS but Guyana denied she was registered"
X Link 2025-12-12T14:34Z 64.1K followers, XXX engagements

"Russian attack on the port of Odesa struck the Panamian flagged Ro-Ro/Passenger ship Cenk T pierside. The ship has been shuttling between Turkey to the anchorage off the Danube and then going dark on AIS before running into Ukranian waters and ports. Not clear if this is a response to the attack on three tankers in the Black Sea conducted by Ukraine or part of the campaign to interdict ports being conducted by both sides in the war"
X Link 2025-12-12T16:44Z 64.1K followers, 22.3K engagements

"@USAMaritimeX It failed Port Royal from hitting a reef right outside of Pearl Harbor. But the bottom looked beautiful out of the water"
X Link 2025-12-12T16:52Z 64.1K followers, XX engagements