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At least three container ships were hit by gunfire in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, maritime security sources and the United Kingdom Maritime Trade

At least two fully laden Iranian tankers have sailed out of the Persian Gulf and past a US blockade this week, part of a flotilla that has made its way around

President Donald Trump said he will extend the current ceasefire with Iran while maintaining the U.S. maritime blockade, citing a request from

The International Maritime Organization is working on an evacuation plan for hundreds of ships that have been stuck in the Persian Gulf since US and Israeli

 Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remained broadly halted on Tuesday with only three ships passing the waterway in the past 24

Two former executives at billionaire John Fredriksen’s oil trading firm sued for about $1 billion in over allegations that the shipping tycoon’s failed

International Maritime Organization faces a defining moment next week as global shipping groups line up in rare unity behind the regulator ahead of renewed

U.S. forces have boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean, signaling a widening of Washington’s maritime enforcement campaign against Iran-linked

The U.S. Coast Guard’s sole heavy icebreaker, the Polar Star, has returned to its homeport of Seattle after completing a months-long Antarctic deployment

China on Tuesday implied energy assistance for the Philippines could be tied to Manila holding military drills with the U.S. and other allies, as its top

Three vessels — two cargo ships and a fuel tanker — appeared to be attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz early on Tuesday as US and Iranian blockades

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday escalated his rhetoric on the Iran conflict, claiming the U.S. is “winning… by a lot” while signaling

The refund system set up to allow companies to recover illegally collected tariffs from the U.S. government went live on Monday as thousands of companies

The U.S. Coast Guard and an expanding multinational task force are racing against time in the remote waters of the western Pacific after the U.S.-flagged cargo

Iran is considering attending peace talks with the United States in Pakistan, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Monday, following moves by

A wave of announcements from defense technology firms, shipbuilders, and autonomy specialists is rapidly transforming the U.S. Navy’s Medium Unmanned Surface

The European Union will expand the criteria of its Iran sanctions to include those responsible for blocking the Strait of Hormuz, which has been largely shut

The U.S. Treasury Department has quietly extended its sanctions wind-down authorization for Russian oil cargoes already at sea, issuing a new general license

A volatile weekend in the Strait of Hormuz has exposed the widening gap between political claims that the waterway is “open” and the operational reality

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A ceasefire between the United States and Iran appeared in jeopardy on Monday after the U.S. said it had seized an Iranian cargo ship that tried to run its

Commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is at a virtual standstill on Monday after a brief and confused reopening over the weekend ended with the first

By Scott Squires Apr 19, 2026 (Bloomberg) –An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that soiled beaches, killed wildlife and sparked outrage from

By Daphne Psaledakis, Trevor Hunnicutt and Saad Sayeed WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD, April 19 (Reuters) – The United States said on Sunday that it had seized