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By Bloomberg News Jan 2, 2026 (Bloomberg) –More oil tankers are turning away from Venezuela as the US threatens to seize vessels transporting oil

A rusting oil tanker and a can of paint have just sparked the most surreal maritime standoff of the decade. Paul Morgan (gCaptain) – For nearly two

The U.S. in 2025 became the first country to export more than 100 million metric tons (mmt) of liquefied natural gas in a single year, powered by the startup

Russia has formally requested that the United States cease its pursuit of an oil tanker fleeing Coast Guard vessels in the Atlantic Ocean, according to the New

Finnish commandos seize cargo ship Fitburg after suspected sabotage of Baltic data cable — then uncover a hidden cargo of sanctioned Russian

The U.S. Treasury Department this week imposed sanctions on four companies and identified four oil tankers as blocked property in the latest escalation of

Finnish authorities boarded and seized a cargo vessel called Fitburg on Wednesday, after it was suspected of having damaged underwater cables in the Baltic

When historians chronicle 2025, they won’t remember it as the year shipping got more efficient or cleaner. They’ll remember it as the year the

India just threw down $5.4 billion to crash the global shipbuilding party. For Western yards already struggling against Asian dominance, it's another wake-up

Global exports of liquefied natural gas in 2025 likely saw the biggest jump in three years, as new supply came online in North

 At least two oil tankers have made their way to Venezuela in recent days and others are navigating towards the country, a sign of state-run PDVSA's effort to

Russia’s Arctic shipping lanes have become a corridor for the global shadow fleet of sanctioned oil and LNG tankers, raising safety, environmental, and

By Baudelaire Mieu Dec 24, 2025 (Bloomberg) – French crop trader Sucres et Denrees SA, a major cocoa buyer, has closed its operations in Ivory Coast’s

Global container shipping rates climbed 1% this week to $2,213 per 40-foot container, marking the fourth consecutive weekly increase as carriers capitalized on

A 27-year-old crude tanker that was supposedly scrapped in 2021 is due to reach Venezuela late this week, according to ship-tracking data, in the latest

The global trading system, which is finishing up one of its most transformational years of the past century, heads into another facing more challenges to

The White House has ordered U.S. military forces to focus almost exclusively on enforcing a "quarantine" of Venezuelan oil for at least the next two months, a

Venezuela's ruling-party controlled National Assembly unanimously approved a law on Tuesday that allows prison sentences of up to 20 years for anyone who

Ukraine's food exports have already been harmed by intensified Russian attacks on ports this month, which could lead to a significant drop in trade despite

Sovcomflot PJSC, Russia’s largest shipping company, received the first domestically built ice-class tanker to expand the fleet of ships hauling super-chilled