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Saudi Pipeline Outage Threatens Loss Of 4% Of Global Oil Supply
By Alex Lawler and Dmitry Zhdannikov LONDON, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia will run out of oil stocks for exports if it doesn’t restart its major pipeline to the Red Sea within days,...

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Trump Demands Ukraine Halt Refinery Strikes As Diesel Surges
By Jennifer A. Dlouhy Sep 13, 2026, (Bloomberg) –President Donald Trump said he’d warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stop targeting oil refineries in Russia amid strikes that have shut down...

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California Gas Station With $9.99 Diesel Exemplifies Fuel Crisis
By Will Kubzansky Sep 12, 2026 (Bloomberg) –At a fuel station in San Diego where diesel is retailing for $9.99 a gallon, Californians can take solace in at least this: in...

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Carney Pushes Idea Of Making Canada ‘Associate Member’ Of EU
BRUSSELS, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney wants a closer relationship with the European Union and is exploring whether his country could become an “associate member” of the bloc,...

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Iraq Under Pressure After Drone Strikes Close Key Saudi Pipeline
By Khalid Al-Ansary and Devika Krishna Kumar Sep 12, 2026 (Bloomberg) –Iraq is moving to contain the fallout from attacks that caused the closure of Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline, after the...

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Coast Guard’s New Digital Mariner Credentialing Platform Set to Go Live
The U.S. Coast Guard is set to launch its new digital mariner credentialing system, marking a major shift in how mariners apply for Merchant Mariner Credentials and medical certificates as...

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U.S.-Facilitated Hormuz Transits Help Lift Gulf Crude Exports Above 10 Million Bpd
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is still running far below normal, but the latest UKMTO data shows a steady flow of ships continuing to move through the waterway, much...

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Yemen’s Houthis Reach Strategic Island at Mouth of Vital Shipping Lane
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis reached the strategic island of Perim in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Friday, four Yemeni government sources told Reuters, moving to tighten their grip on a vital global shipping route in the widening Middle East war.

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Mike Schuler
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Strong Imports Push Port of Long Beach to Busiest August on Record
The Port of Long Beach handled its busiest August on record as U.S. container imports remained stronger than expected through the late summer peak season. The port moved 919,992 twenty-foot...

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World Shipping Council Calls for IMO Action on Lithium Battery Cargo Safety Gap
The World Shipping Council is urging governments to close what it says is a dangerous loophole in international shipping rules that can allow containers packed with thousands of lithium batteries...

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EU Imports More Yamal LNG as Russian Arctic Trade Tilts Toward Europe
European Union spending on Russian Arctic LNG has already surpassed last year’s total, even as the bloc prepares for a broader phaseout of Russian energy imports. EU countries paid an...

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IMO Urged to Give Shipping Clear Investment Signal on Net Zero Pathway
The Getting to Zero Coalition is calling on International Maritime Organization member states to preserve a strong and predictable Net-Zero Framework as negotiations over shipping’s global emissions rules head into...