As the US-Israel-Iran conflict continues, all eyes are on international shipping and crude oil markets as critical markers of global economic stability. Given current geopolitical uncertainty, we analyse a paper that explores how volatility spreads between geopolitical conflict risks, shipping markets and the global crude oil market. We discuss the findings and implications for investors and highlight datasets in the commodity flows, oil production, news and geopolitical risk space, which can be used to make sense of volatility spillovers during times of conflict.