I am, like most people, also on bluesky (but slightly too late to get the same handle I have here) so find me at @tomjss.bsky.social.

EXC: At least 7 vessels exported Iranian oil or related products while holding British insurance from two British shipping insurers.

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RT @e_nation: We’re in @thetimes today with Enterprise Nation member @MousCase. It’s about the scrapping of a scheme providing grants for s….

RT @KSE_Institute: AstraZeneca remained active and profitable in 🇷🇺 — and in April sponsored a Moscow forum where its Russia head joined a….

Spelthorne council, which invested over £1 billion in properties including BP's main campus, is to be taken over by government-appointed commissioners. I wrote about bad property bets made by the council and three others in London's commuter belt last year.

For the first time ever, Rolls-Royce's market cap has surpassed that of BP. The vast majority of this is down to individual performance. Though Trump factor - combination of tariffs + European rearmmament likely pushing both over the edge.

CCEP is almost guaranteed to join the FTSE 100 at the next reshuffle. Combined with the other Coca-Cola bottler already in the index, Coca-Cola HBC, it will mean nearly 2% of the entire FTSE 100 market cap is dedicated to bottling or selling Coca-Cola products.

The Times has partnered with Shadow Fleet Secrets, which shows that more than a third of the tankers in the Shadow fleet were previously owned by European and US shipping companies, producing sales of more than $6 billion. This includes ship owners from the UK:. with.

Yesterday the defence sec said that the Yantar, a known Russian intelligence ship, was spotted passing through British waters. It's not the only Russian ship with military links to pass through UK waters since Feb 2022. With @Effy_Yeomans .

RT @alexralph: AstraZeneca, Britain’s most valuable public company, has made about £45 million in payments to doctors and healthcare organi….

RT @fish_bella: Police are investigating claims of stalking and “corporate espionage” made by executives at Boohoo Group, The Times can rev….

RT @GeorgeGreenwood: The government will force a Chinese tech company to sell its majority stake in a British chipmaker a year after @tomjs….

Non-US Election News: . A year ago @GeorgeGreenwood, @ltrgoddard and I reported that a UK semiconductor manufacturer, FTDI, bought by a Chinese state-owned entity had supplied chips to Russia - at least one ending up in a Russian Tank. On the back of our reporting, today the UK.

Auspicious timing. One day off the two year anniversary of two sandwiches!.

RT @KSE_Institute: 1/4 Fears of a spill in Gibraltar grow as Russia’s shadow fleet transports oil, writes @tomjs @thetimes, featuring @KSE_….

Also, separate research has found that the number of shadow tankers passing through the Dover Strait between January and August this year increased by 355 per cent compared with the same period in 2022!.

N.B. While the Strait encompasses the waters of Spain, Morocco as well as Gibraltar there already has been at least one Shadow Fleet-related accident within the Bay of Gibraltar.

First trade-related story since taking on the beat last week:. More than half of Russian crude oil passed through the Strait of Gibraltar this year, raising fears about the possibility of an ecological disaster in British waters.

Happy to say that I've finished the graduate scheme at The Times and will now be working as a general business reporter, primarily covering trade!.