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(Bloomberg) –Efforts to secure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz are ramping up as the U.K. said a second warship arrived in the area and South

By Jonathan Saul, Parisa Hafezi and Marianna Parraga LONDON/DUBAI/PANAMA CITY, July 26 (Reuters) – Somewhere on its journey from the waters off Iran,

By Leonid Bershidsky (Bloomberg Opinion) –The seizure of a number of ships in recent months tells an uncomfortable story. In today’s multi-polar world,

(Bloomberg Opinion) –Confronting the first crisis of his premiership, Boris Johnson must decide what to do about the Stena Impero, the British oil tanker

By Andrew MacAskill and Jonathan Saul LONDON, July 25 (Reuters) – Britain has started sending a warship to accompany all British-flagged vessels

By Serene Cheong and Alfred Cang (Bloomberg) –The U.S. has sanctioned a Chinese state oil trader for violating restrictions on Iranian crude, an attempt

By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS, July 23 (Reuters) – France, Italy and Denmark gave initial support for a British plan for a European-led naval mission to

Stena Bulk, the Swedish operator of the Stena Impero tanker, says it is still awaiting permission from the Iranian government to visit the ship and verify

By Alex Morales and Robert Hutton (Bloomberg) –European governments will assemble a naval mission to provide safe passage for ships through the Persian

(Bloomberg) –Escalating tensions in the Middle East’s biggest shipping chokepoint is raising speculation over who is responsible for tankers ensnared

By Julian Lee (Bloomberg Opinion) –The capture of the Stena Impero shows just how easy it is for Iran to hamper shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. At

By Michael Georgy and Kylie MacLellan DUBAI/LONDON, July 22 (Reuters) – Britain called on Monday for a European-led naval mission to ensure safe shipping

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) –Tankers are offloading millions of barrels of Iranian oil into storage tanks at Chinese ports, creating a hoard of crude

By Parisa Hafezi and Peter Graff DUBAI/LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) – Britain was weighing its next moves in the Gulf tanker crisis on Sunday, with few

By Babak Dehghanpisheh and William Schomberg GENEVA/LONDON, July 20 (Reuters) – Britain denounced the Iranian seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker in

By Golnar Motevalli, Nick Wadhams and Tim Ross (Bloomberg) –Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps seized a British oil tanker and a Liberian-flagged ship in

By Harkiran Dhillon (Bloomberg) Oil climbed after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corp said it seized a British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, raising

LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) – Britain said Iran’s seizure of a British-flagged vessel and a Liberian-flagged vessel in the Strait of Hormuz was

Stena Bulk has issued the following statement about M/V Stena Impero, the British-flagged oil tanker that Iran claims to have siezed. Stena Bulk and Northern

By Kate Holton (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Friday they had captured a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf after Britain seized