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By Jonathan Saul, Humeyra Pamuk and Timothy Gardner LONDON/WASHINGTON, May 27 (Reuters) – Ship owners and insurers say it may be impossible for the

By Tibisay Romero and Deisy Buitrago VALENCIA, Venezuela/CARACAS May 25 (Reuters) – The first of five Iranian tankers carrying fuel to Venezuela has

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) – In an alert that appeared aimed squarely at Iran, the U.S. Navy issued a warning on Tuesday

By Golnar Motevalli (Bloomberg) –Iran has sent an official warning to the U.S. against making threats to Iranian fuel tankers bound for Venezuela, the

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, May 11 (Reuters) – One Iranian warship accidentally struck another with a missile during an exercise, killing 19 sailors and

WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had instructed the U.S.Navy to fire on any Iranian ships that harass it at

Eleven Irananian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) harrassed U.S. military vessels in international waters in the North Arabian Gulf, the U.S.

LONDON, April 15 (Reuters) – A Hong Kong-flagged tanker was briefly detained in Iran before being freed after armed Iranian guards in speedboats directed

DUBAI, April 14 (Reuters) – Armed men boarded a vessel at anchor in the Gulf of Oman on Tuesday but the ship was later released, the United Kingdom

By Luke Baker LONDON, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Iran is unlikely to block the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s busiest oil-shipping channel, in reprisal for

By Jessica Jaganathan and Koustav Samanta SINGAPORE, Jan 9 (Reuters) – Even as the United States and Iran appear to signal a keenness to avoid further

The United States has reissued an alert to commercial vessels in the Middle East to the maritime threat from the Iranian military and its proxies following the

By Serene Cheong, Sharon Cho and Ann Koh (Bloomberg) –Owners of oil tankers are boosting their rates to haul crude on a key route from the Middle East as

LONDON, Jan 4 (Reuters) – Britain’s navy will accompany UK-flagged ships through the Strait of Hormuz to provide protection after the U.S. killing

By Yasna Haghdoost (Bloomberg) –Iran has detained a ship carrying smuggled fuel near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz, state-run Islamic Republic

The joint venture operating icebreaking LNG carriers for Yamal LNG have been exempted from U.S. sanctions against COSCO tanker units, Russian natural gas

By Timothy Gardner and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (Reuters) – The White House is warning Chinese shipping companies against turning off their

By Olivia Konotey-Ahulu and Firat Kayakiran (Bloomberg) –Nothing right now is stopping a surge in oil tanker rates that’s given owners of the vessels

By Olivia Konotey-Ahulu and Firat Kayakiran (Bloomberg) –Nothing right now is stopping a surge in oil tanker rates that’s given owners of the vessels

By Brian Wingfield and Firat Kayakiran (Bloomberg) –Supertankers hauling oil on some of the world’s longest trade trade routes had already been