The Waiting Room off Johor: Iranian tankers and the maritime grey zone east of Singapore

By Arsenio Longo, HUAX, and Saleem Khan, Pole Star Global The location 45 miles off the coast of Johor, Malaysia, often referred to as the Eastern Outer Ports Limits (EOPL) anchorage, does not look like a crisis zone. It sits around Malaysia and Singapore’s eastern approaches, off Johor, in one of the busiest maritime theatres […]