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Covert Mideast Oil Flows Are Keeping Global Prices in Check
By Alex Longley, Anthony Di Paola, Grant Smith and Weilun Soon Aug 16, 2026(Bloomberg) –Middle Eastern oil producers are pressing ahead with shuttling large volumes of crude out of the Persian...
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Shell Loses Lengthy Legal Fight With South African Activists
By Paul Burkhardt Aug 16, 2026 (Bloomberg) –Shell Plc lost the latest round of a five-year legal fight with environmental activists over a South African oil-exploration campaign that went all the...
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Smart Tugs And Trucks That Don’t Sleep. Automation Rewires US Transport
By Gavin Maguire LITTLETON, Colorado, Aug 14 (Reuters) – U.S. transportation has steadily become more efficient through advances in engine technology, infrastructure upgrades and increasingly sophisticated logistics networks. The next wave is...
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Hormuz Ship Attacks Mount As US Vows To Cripple Iran Economy
By Arsalan Shahla, Catherine Lucey and Sara Gharaibeh Aug 15, 2026 (Bloomberg) –More ships have come under attack in the Strait of Hormuz as talks to end the war in the...
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Hawaii Faces Rare Hurricane Strike Threatening Flooding Rain
By Brian K. Sullivan Aug 15, 2026 (Bloomberg) –Pacific storm Lala strengthened into a hurricane as it edged closer to Hawaii’s Big Island, where it will make possible landfall on Saturday,...
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Between Cartel Threats And US Airstrikes, Ecuador Fishermen Have Nowhere To Hide
By Alexandra Valencia and Yury Garcia JARAMIJO/SAN MATEO, Ecuador, August 15 (Reuters) – At first light on Ecuador’s Pacific coast, small fishing boats fan out from the villages of San Mateo and...
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UAE Says Iran Attacked Another ADNOC Vessel In Hormuz
CAIRO, Aug 15 (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates said on Saturday Iran had attacked an Abu Dhabi National Oil Company vessel while it was transiting the Strait of Hormuz a day...
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Sanctioned Heavy-Lift Ships Deliver Key Arctic LNG 2 Modules to Russia, Pointing to Construction Restart
Two sanctioned heavy-lift vessels carrying key top-side modules for Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 project have arrived at Novatek’s Belokamenka construction yard after a journey of nearly 2½ months from eastern China, offering the clearest indication yet that work on the project’s long-stalled third production train could be resuming despite Western sanctions.
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America Is Finally Remembering the Merchant Mariners Who Carry Its Power
The Ugly Ducklings of American Power By Bruce Kimbrell (Policy Op-Ed) On July 17, history quietly turned on the waterfront. Admiral Karl Thomas, Commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command,...
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Caspian Pipeline Consortium Oil Loadings Suspended After Drone Attacks On Tankers
MOSCOW, July 19 (Reuters) – Two oil tankers were attacked at the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminal off Russia’s Black Sea coast, CPC said on Sunday, adding that oil loadings were suspended....
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Greece Offers Bounty To Catch Ravenous Fish Lured By Warming Seas
By Paul Tugwell Jul 19, 2026 (Bloomberg) –Stavros Moraitis has spent more than three decades fishing in the azure waters off the Greek island of Milos. He’s used to competition from...
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Iran’s Guards Say Two Ships Involved In ‘Accident’ After Defying Hormuz Warnings
DUBAI, July 19 (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday that two ships were involved in an “accident” after attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz via an “unsafe route,” while...
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TOTE, Hanwha Philly Shipyard Selected to Build New U.S. Missile Defense Vessels
TOTE Services and Hanwha Philly Shipyard have been selected to deliver the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s next-generation Missile Range Instrumentation Vessels (MRIV), extending the commercial shipbuilding model that has already...
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US Strikes Iran To ‘Punish’ It for Attack That Killed 2 Troops
By María Paula Mijares Torres and Patrick Sykes Jul 18, 2026 (Bloomberg) –The US launched fresh strikes on Iran Saturday, a day after two American service members were killed in Jordan...
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Sanctioned Tanker Is Leaking Oil Near Oman
By Catherine Cartier and Jonathan Saul July 17 (Reuters) – A vessel under sanctions for moving Russian fuel is likely leaking oil in a protected marine area off the coast of Oman,...
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Venice Protests Greet U.S. Ambassador Fertitta’s Arrival On Superyacht
By Manuel Silvestri VENICE, July 17 (Reuters) – A few hundred people in Venice protested on Friday against U.S. Ambassador to Italy Tilman Fertitta as he arrived in the lagoon city aboard...
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Exxon-Chartered Oil Tanker Attacked By Drones Near Black Sea Terminal
MOSCOW, July 18 (Reuters) – An oil tanker chartered for loading oil at the Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminal off Russia’s Black Sea coast was attacked and damaged by two drones on Friday, CPC...
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Thousands Of Trucks Haul Iraq’s Oil Through Syria In Sign Of Hormuz Legacy
By Archie Hunter, Anthony Di Paola, Khalid Al-Ansary and Nicholas Lua Jul 18, 2026 (Bloomberg) –Iraq is using a vast fleet of trucks to carry fuel oil through Syria and reroute...
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Former Ship Captain Pleads Guilty to Drugging, Raping U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Cadet at Sea
A former U.S. merchant ship captain has pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from the drugging and sexual assault of a U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) cadet aboard a commercial...