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Yemen’s Houthis said on Saturday their missiles hit the Andromeda Star oil tanker in the Red Sea, as they continue attacking commercial ships in the area in a show of support for Palestinians fighting Israel in the Gaza war. US Central…
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QatarEnergy CEO Saad Al-Kaabi announced on Sunday that the company has finalized a number of charter contracts with several Asian ship owners to bolster its shipping fleet by 19 LNG vessels ahead of a massive expansion in LNG output. In…
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A Marshall Islands-flagged liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tanker reported two explosions near the ship as it traveled off the coast of Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah, the third merchant vessel attack of the past 48 hours, British security…
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seized Sunday a foreign oil tanker carrying around two million liters of “smuggled fuel” near the country’s southern coast, local media reported. “A foreign vessel with the flag of a country from Oceania was…
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US forces struck an anti-ship missile in Houthi-held Yemen that they said was ready to fire Saturday, hours after the Iran-backed rebels caused a fire on a British tanker in the Gulf of Aden with a similar munition. US and British forces…
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The UN has announced that the decaying FSO Safer tanker off the western coastlines of Yemen has been successfully emptied of its cargo and that the rescue team has departed the site, effectively neutralizing the tanker’s threat to the Red…
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The long-awaited operation to resolve the issue of the ageing tanker SFO Safer, currently decaying off the coast of Yemen, is set to end in the coming days, with over 96 percent of the ship’s oil cargo transferred to a replacement tanker,…
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A ship is enroute to Yemen to pump oil from the decaying Safer tanker, the UN’s official coordinator for Yemen said on Saturday. “The replacement vessel Nautica set sail from #Djibouti today at 09:45 en route to Yemen’s Red Sea coast to…
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The transfer of crude oil from a decaying tanker off Yemen will begin early next week, the United Nations said Monday of an operation aimed at preventing a damaging Red Sea spill. The 47-year-old FSO Safer, long used as a floating…
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Japan’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Kenji Yamada has called for urgent international action to salvage the FSO Safer, a supertanker in an advanced state of decay moored off Yemen’s Red Sea coast, in a video message statement…
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