Tanker

The European Union’s mission in the Red Sea said on Wednesday there was no oil spill in the waters near the Greek-flagged tanker hit by a fiery Houthi militant attack off Yemen’s coast. The mission, called Aspides, added that the Sounion…
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Traffic was temporarily suspended in both directions in Turkiye’s Bosphorus on Sunday after a tanker had an machinery failure, the Transportation and Infrastructure Ministry said. The tanker passing the strait that runs through Istanbul…
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The US on Thursday announced sanctions against shipping companies for transporting Iranian oil, saying it was a response to Tehran’s nuclear “escalation,” on the eve of presidential elections in the Islamic republic. “Over the past…
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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 Panamanian-flagged tanker carrying crude oil bound for India was struck with a missile in the Red Sea, the US State Department said on Friday. The missile launched from Yemen hit the M/T Pollux on its port side, according to the State…
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Iran was “deeply involved” in planning operations against commercial vessels in the Red Sea and its intelligence was critical to enable Yemen’s Houthi movement’s targeting of maritime vessels, the White House alleged on Friday. “We have…
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The five armed assailants captured by US forces after seizing a commercial ship near Yemen over the weekend were likely Somali and not Iranian-backed Houthis, the Pentagon said Monday. Recent attacks on commercial vessels have been…
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A US Navy warship responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker in the Gulf of Aden that had been seized by armed individuals and the vessel is now safe, US officials said on Sunday. The tanker, which had been carrying a cargo of…
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An American-owned oil tanker long suspected of carrying sanctioned Iranian crude oil began offloading its cargo near Texas late Saturday, tracking data showed, even as Tehran has threatened to target shipping in the Arabian Gulf over it.…
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A Suez Canal tugboat has sunk after colliding with a Hong Kong-flagged LPG tanker in the strategically important waterway, the canal authority said on Saturday, without saying if shipping traffic had been disrupted. The tanker, Chinagas…
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