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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has initiated the process for a potential mineral lease sale in federal waters off the coast of Virginia, marking only

The grounded container ship MSC Baltic III has sustained significant additional structural damage following severe weather that battered its position in

The International Transport Workers’ Federation has condemned recent attacks on vessels operating in the Black Sea following the third Ukrainian sea

U.S. supply chains are showing early signs of recovery after a year of unprecedented tariff-driven disruption, according to project44’s December Tariff

The seizure of an enormous oil supertanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday is just the beginning of a new phase in the Trump administration’s

The oil supertanker Skipper that was seized by the U.S. near Venezuela this week as part of an increased pressure strategy against President Nicolas Maduro, is

The National Transportation Safety Board has concluded that the March 2024 collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge—which killed six highway

A five-year legal battle in the UK against major shipping companies involved in a car carrier cartel has concluded with a proposed £54 million (USD 72

Venezuela faces a fresh financial shock after the US seized a sanctioned oil tanker off its coast, a move that could choke off one of the few remaining

 A U.S. move this week to seize an oil tanker out of Venezuela is poised to make a bad situation worse for a crisis-stricken Cuba already struggling to

Editor’s Note: This is the longest piece gCaptain has ever published. 13,000 words. It’s messy in places, uneven in tone, and intentionally

The U.S. Coast Guard seized the very large oil tanker SKIPPER off Venezuela’s coast on Wednesday, culminating a three-year enforcement saga involving

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced sweeping sanctions Thursday targeting three nephews of Venezuelan

The U.S. is preparing to intercept more ships transporting Venezuelan oil following the seizure of a tanker this week, as it increases pressure on Venezuelan

Dec 11 (Reuters) – Germany’s top fiscal court has ruled that authorities cannot for now sell or otherwise use an oil

United Against Nuclear Iran, a U.S.-based advocacy group that tracks Tehran-linked shipping and sanctions evasion, has praised the Trump administration’s

The Drewry World Container Index rose 2% to $1,957 per 40-foot container this week, marking the second consecutive weekly increase driven by strengthening

More than 30 U.S.-sanctioned oil vessels doing business in Venezuela could face punishment by Washington after the Coast Guard seized a supertanker carrying

A shortage of oil tankers is becoming so acute that newly built vessels, which usually carry refined fuels on their maiden voyages, are instead racing empty

Ukrainian aerial drones struck a Russian oil platform in the Caspian Sea for the first time on Thursday, halting production at the facility owned by

The U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, a move that raised oil prices and is likely to further

In an unprecedented appeal to the private shipping sector, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) asking commercial-vessel

The Department of the Interior announced today that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has conducted Lease Sale Big Beautiful Gulf 1, generating $279.4

Ukraine has carried out a third sea drone attack on a Russian shadow fleet tanker in the Black Sea, marking an escalation in Kyiv’s campaign to disrupt

The European Commission has launched an in-depth investigation into the proposed acquisition of joint control over Terminal Catalunya (TERCAT) by Terminal