The Morning Watch is the maritime brief from Kairos. Each edition brings the stories that move shipping, each with a short takeaway for charterers, owners, lenders and insurers, plus a prediction poll and a safety quiz.
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Three ships hit in Hormuz as Qatar's LNG stays choked
SafetyProjectiles strike three ships in the Strait of Hormuz
MarketQatar's LNG stays choked as Hormuz crude flows recover
TechnologyMontfort enters LPG and ammonia trades with a dual-fuel MGC
The sample edition, read in full below.
What's in each edition
Top stories
The stories that matter to shipping, each summarised in a few sentences, with a takeaway for your desk and a link to its source.
Prediction poll
One question on where the market goes next.
Safety quiz
One question on the rules ships sail by, from SOLAS to the IGC Code, with the regulation it comes from.
Read a sample edition
A sample edition, written for this page on Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Its stories, poll and quiz follow the format the agents write, and every story links to its source.
Safety
Projectiles strike three ships in the Strait of Hormuz
The Strait of Hormuz from space, December 2018. NASA MODIS image (public domain).
UKMTO says an outbound product tanker, an outbound crude oil tanker and an inbound container ship were struck by unknown projectiles while transiting the Strait of Hormuz on October 11.The Joint Maritime Information Center rated the threat to shipping in the strait as severe the same day.
Takeaway
With two tankers and a container ship hit, owners and charterers fixing Gulf voyages should confirm war-risk cover before each transit.
Middle East crude shipments through Hormuz rose to around 80% of pre-war levels in September, Ron Bousso writes in a Reuters opinion piece.Qatar, with around a fifth of global LNG capacity, is on track to export just 0.6 million tonnes in October.
Takeaway
LNG buyers and charterers should plan on reduced Qatari supply until the war with Iran is durably resolved, not wait for a quick return.
Montfort enters LPG and ammonia trades with a dual-fuel MGC
An LPG tanker off Peng Chau, Hong Kong, 2019, not MFM Nicole. Photo: Ilkka Simomaa, CC BY 4.0, cropped.
Montfort Maritime has taken delivery of MFM Nicole, a 40,000 cbm fully refrigerated medium gas carrier built by Jiangsu Yangzi-Mitsui Shipbuilding (YAMIC).Her main engine can run on LPG or very low-sulphur fuel oil, and her approved cargoes include anhydrous ammonia.
Takeaway
With YAMIC calling her the lead ship of a six-vessel series, charterers of LPG and ammonia cargoes should expect more MGCs of her design.
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