strait of hormuz

By Sylvia Westall DUBAI, Aug 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. maritime agency has told U.S.-flagged commercial vessels they should send transit plans in advance to

CAIRO, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih met U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Tuesday in Washington and said both sides

LONDON, Aug 6 (Reuters) – The continued detention of British-flagged tanker Stena Impero is “unacceptable and unjustifiable” and there are

LONDON, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Britain said on Monday it was joining a U.S.-led maritime security mission in the Gulf to protect merchant vessels traveling

(Bloomberg) –The crews of some ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz have the right to refuse working on the vessels as they pass through the waterway

By Parisa Hafezi and Maher Chmaytelli DUBAI, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Iranian Revolutionary Guards seized a foreign oil tanker in the Gulf which they said

by Tim Kelly (Reuters) – Japan will not send warships to join a U.S.-led maritime force to guard oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz fearing a military

LONDON, Aug 1 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell is not taking any British-flagged tankers through the Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions with Iran in

By Joanna Plucinska and Paul Carrel WARSAW/BERLIN, July 31 (Reuters) – Germany will not participate in a U.S.-led naval mission in the Strait of Hormuz

LONDON, July 30 (Reuters) – BP has not taken any of its oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz since a July 10 attempt by Iran to seize one

By The Editors (Bloomberg Opinion) — European nations, alarmed by Iran’s capture of a British oil tanker, are mounting a response to protect their

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

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

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

By David Marino (Bloomberg) –Iran is capable of shutting the Strait of Hormuz — a crucial choke-point for oil flows — but doesn’t want to

By Alaric Nightingale and Firat Kayakiran (Bloomberg) –Oil tanker owners are raising the prices they charge to export Middle East crude as tensions

By Alex Longley (Bloomberg) — Not since 2005 have the world’s insurers considered shipping in the Persian Gulf so dangerous for oil tankers.

LONDON, April 23 (Reuters) – Iran has said it would block the Strait of Hormuz if it was barred from using the strategic waterway through which about a

DUBAI, April 22 (Reuters) – Tehran is prepared for a U.S. decision to end waivers granted to buyers of Iranian crude, an Iranian oil ministry source said