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Sales of Venezuelan oil for loading in October stalled after a surge in shipping costs muddled negotiations between the country’s state oil company and

A Bahrain-led group backed by 80 countries has called for the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, demanding safe and unimpeded passage for commercial

The global maritime industry is marking World Maritime Day on Thursday with an unusually immediate backdrop: merchant ships under attack, seafarers being

The Drewry World Container Index edged lower this week as falling Asia-Europe rates outweighed firmer pricing on the Transpacific, with carriers preparing

Taiwan has upgraded its maritime patrol capacity around the Pratas Islands in the disputed South China Sea, including regularly sending larger ships there, the

A supercharged rally in tanker earnings is attracting new investors to the global shipping industry, as the war in Iran points to how geopolitical crises can

The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded a $315 million contract to Tutor Perini Corp. to build a new fuel pier and major cutter mooring at Base Kodiak, Alaska, as

Global oil trading firms Vitol and Trafigura are pushing for steeper discounts on Venezuelan crude oil as rising freight rates shrink their margins, five

Maria Angelicoussis, the magnate behind Greece’s biggest shipping fortune, has scored big gains outside her maritime empire with a bet on technology giant

resident Volodymyr Zelenskiy told leaders at the United Nations on Wednesday that Ukraine was ready for a maritime truce in the Black Sea based on proposals

The container shipping market is still benefiting from geopolitical disruption and longer sailing distances in 2026, but a rapidly expanding fleet could turn

President Donald Trump used his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to renew his attack on the International Maritime Organization’s

An Indian seafarer has been killed after the Antigua and Barbuda-flagged bulk carrier Cape Dao was attacked and abandoned near the Strait of Hormuz,

Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung hailed “significant progress” on implementing the two countries’ long-stalled investment deal, with

The official death toll from a passenger ship that capsized and sank in Indonesia's Java Sea rose to 20 on Wednesday, up from the previous

Shipping is running out of time to meet a key 2030 target for zero-emission fuels, even as methanol infrastructure and alternative-fuel vessel capacity

New York is leading a coalition of states in two new lawsuits challenging Trump administration agreements that would cancel offshore wind leases and redirect

By Josh Wingrove and Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump said he’s encouraged his advisers to support a ban on US diesel exports,

Russia's Arctic port of Murmansk will use equipment typically used to load fertilizer when it ships its first grain from southern Russia for export as early

Tue Vuong had secured four cargoes of wheat harvested from fertile lands around the Black Sea, roughly a fifth of what his milling company 5,000 miles away in

A potentially significant change at the US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has gone largely under the radar, after the regulator confirmed there is no

France has started drafting a UN Security Council resolution in coordination with the United States on setting up ?an international mission to restore

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday called for complete economic isolation of Iran, showing no intention to resume talks at the UN General Assembly but saying

What (Acting) Secretary Hung Cao’s First Five Months Tell Us About the Job Ahead By Bruce Kimbrell (Policy Op-Ed) President Trump has nominated the

The European Union’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, called for member states to send more naval vessels to protect commercial shipping in the Red