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Drones make the Black Sea a harder sell than the Gulf

More than 570 merchant ships have been hit in the Black Sea this year, according to figures reported by the Financial Times, with attacks in the third quarter six times the Persian Gulf's rate. Insurers and port operators are pricing the drone war faster than navies can answer it.

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This summer a Russian-flagged tanker, the Khrizopraz, crossed the Black Sea with tyres slung over its hull. Another tanker went through the Bosphorus with water tanks hanging off its stern, and two more were fitted with netting, Reuters reported. The improvised armour belongs to the age of the cutlass rather than the drone, but it tells you what shipowners have concluded. In the Black Sea, nobody else is going to protect the ship.

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