Reports are coming in of a new vessel hijacking that happened earlier today, September 10, south of Yemen. The monitoring authorities issued alerts about a bulker that was approached and appeared to have been boarded while assets assigned to the…
On Tuesday, U.S. Southern Command carried out a coordinated strike to destroy a "floating refueling station" for drug-running boats in the Eastern Pacific. In an operational shift, Southcom tasked resources to physically interdict the vessel and remove the crew; in…
A tanker carrying about two million barrels of Iraqi fuel oil was struck by a drone in Iraqi territorial waters on Wednesday, port officials said, and British Navy-affiliated UKMTO reported that several merchant vessels in the Persian Gulf had been…
A seafarer was killed in an incident involving the Gibraltar-flagged oil products tanker Hercules Star while at anchorage off Dubai, the vessel’s charterer Peninsula said on Wednesday.
How much oil is flowing through the Strait of Hormuz? Traders, energy executives and government officials are all trying to figure it out – but are reaching wildly different conclusions.
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation is offering the option of ship-to-ship transfers of its crude oil and petroleum products outside the Strait of Hormuz to its buyers for safe transportation to final destinations, a company official said on Wednesday."We are offering the…
