The Houthi threats to shipping in the Red Sea and its chokepoint, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, have forced at least one oil tanker carrying Saudi crude to Asia to choose the much longer route through the Suez Canal, the Mediterranean,…
Two tankers managed by Greek operator Dynacom were reportedly struck in separate incidents in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, according to naval and maritime security sources.
A Kuwaiti product tanker has become the latest merchant vessel apparently struck in the Strait of Hormuz, forcing its crew to abandon ship off the eastern coast of Oman's Musandam Peninsula.
The United States has carried out its first enforcement action under the newly reinstated naval blockade of Iran's seaports, disabling an Iran-linked crude oil tanker as it neared the country's main export terminal. U.S.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has widened its campaign of maritime pressure in the Gulf region, striking a chemical product tanker off Oman's Qalhat liquefied natural gas terminal near Sur late on 13 July.
A Filipino seafarer has admitted to smuggling narcotics aboard a commercial tanker on behalf of a Mexican drug cartel, entering a guilty plea before a Los Angeles district court on 13 July.
