By The Maritime Executive 2026-10-07 15:04:45 U.S. maritime conglomerate TOTE has accepted a contract with MARAD to manage the Missile Range Instrumentation Vessel (MRIV) project, a three-ship series for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and immediately awarded a subcontract to…
By The Maritime Executive 2026-10-07 17:10:49 Germany’s federal government made official the decision to block the acquisition of a domestic freight forwarder and logistics company by the Chinese state-controlled COSCO Group.
By The Maritime Executive 2026-10-07 14:21:36 The crew of a small Turkish cargo ship struck early Tuesday morning, October 6, off the coast of Bulgaria has not been located, and based on the results of the search, Bulgaria ended the…
By The Maritime Executive 2026-10-07 18:35:45 Smoke from the burning tanker off the resort town of Sochi, Russia petered out on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after the vessel was hit by one or more Ukrainian drones.
The US naval blockade has prevented any Iranian or dark fleet tanker from leaving the Gulf, and this 100 percent effective blockade has now been in place for 10 weeks.
Iran has added to a rapidly-expanding list of strikes on energy shipping in the Strait of Hormuz with another attack on a tanker off the Musandam Peninsula. On Monday evening at about 1637 UTC, the master of a tanker informed…
