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Sweden Fits Guns To Coast Guard Vessels As Baltic Tensions Rise
By Charlie Duxbury Jun 27, 2026 (Bloomberg) –Sweden is fitting machine guns to its civilian coast guard vessels to better counter what it views as an intensifying threat from Russia-linked vessels...
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A Super Yacht Armada Came To Miami, Leaving A Marine Graveyard In Its Wake
By Michael Smith Jun 27, 2026 (Bloomberg) –Not far from the super yachts docked outside the island palaces of Miami’s new billionaire class, smaller boats abandoned by people who couldn’t afford...
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Second Tanker Struck in Strait of Hormuz as U.S.-Iran Shipping Crisis Deepens
A second merchant vessel has been struck while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, underscoring the rapidly deteriorating security situation despite efforts to keep commercial shipping moving through the strategic waterway....
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Tanker Struck In Hormuz As Navies Raise Threat Level To Ships
By Sara Gharaibeh and Alex Longley Jun 27, 2026 (Bloomberg) –A ship was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz and naval authorities increased the threat level to shipping in the area,...
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Saudi Arabia Is Ramping Up Oil Exports As Gulf Ports Restart
By Julian Lee and Priyanjana Bengani Jun 26, 2026 (Bloomberg) –Saudi Arabia is boosting crude shipments, opening up its Persian Gulf ports that were shuttered by the Iran war while also...
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Vitol Sails Stranded Aluminum Cargo Out Of Strait Of Hormuz
By Mark Burton Jun 26, 2026 (Bloomberg) –Vitol Group has shipped a stranded cargo of aluminum out of the Strait of Hormuz, in an early sign of supply relief for buyers...
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Shipping’s Aging Global Fleet Is Raising Safety Risks
The world’s merchant fleet is getting older, and according to Allianz Commercial, that trend is creating mounting safety risks as shipowners struggle to renew fleets amid shipyard shortages, geopolitical disruption...
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UK Boards Russian Shadow Fleet Tanker in First Direct Interdiction Operation
The United Kingdom has boarded a sanctioned Russian shadow fleet tanker in what officials described as the first UK-led operation of its kind, marking a significant escalation in efforts to...
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Rubio Defends Hormuz Enforcement After India Protests Seafarer Deaths
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has defended Washington’s blockade enforcement operations in the Strait of Hormuz after India lodged a formal protest over attacks that killed three Indian mariners...
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British Forces Intercept Russian Shadow Fleet Tanker
LONDON, June 14 (Reuters) – British armed forces intercepted a sanctioned Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in the Channel on Sunday, leading for the first time an operation to disrupt the oil...
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Trump Says He’ll Sign Deal With Iran To Reopen Hormuz Sunday
By Arsalan Shahla and María Paula Mijares Torres Jun 13, 2026 (Bloomberg) –President Donald Trump said an interim deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the conflict with Iran...
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US Refiners Can Still Absorb More Venezuelan Oil
By Marianna Parraga HOUSTON, June 12 (Reuters) – U.S. refiners can still absorb more Venezuelan crude, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Friday, as the South American country’s output bounces following the...
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Ukraine Drone Strikes Sparks Fire At Russian Port
MOSCOW, June 13 (Reuters) – A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and sparked a fire at a sea terminal in the southern Russian port of Temryuk, in the Krasnodar region, governor Veniamin Kondratiev...
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Tanker Attack Raises New Questions About U.S. ‘Secret Mission’ in Hormuz
A commercial tanker was struck by an unidentified projectile near the Strait of Hormuz overnight while transiting an area associated with a covert U.S.-coordinated shipping corridor that has been used...
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Shadow Fleet Tanker Captain Pleads Guilty After Weeks-Long Atlantic Chase by U.S. Coast Guard
The former master of a tanker linked to Iran and Venezuela’s shadow oil trade has pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court after leading the U.S. Coast Guard on a weeks-long...
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Port of Long Beach Posts Third-Busiest May on Record as Imports Surge 40%
The Port of Long Beach handled 842,030 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in May, marking its third-busiest May on record and a sharp rebound from the tariff-driven slowdown that weighed on...
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U.S., Iran Near Deal to Reopen Strait of Hormuz After Months of War
The United States and Iran signaled on Friday that an agreement to end their war was close, with a senior U.S. administration official saying both sides had agreed on a text and that Washington expects to sign an initial deal in the coming days.
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Shipowners Owners Brace for Hormuz Reopening as Peace Deal Nears
Shipowners are watching warily for a peace deal between the US and Iran and what it would mean for the Strait of Hormuz, with some tanker owners expressing caution, while others were already predicting a frantic free-for-all if the waterway opens in earnest.
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Lost Gulf Oil Exports Far Smaller Than Thought, Traders and Shippers Say
Since the start of the Iran war and Tehran's announcement that the Strait of Hormuz was "closed," the market has grappled to put a figure on lost crude supply and to predict the price of oil.