Crooked Bough News Round-up

+ Shipping Magnate Worth $13.5 Billion Rides AI Boom With Nvidia—Maria Angelicoussis, the magnate behind Greece’s biggest shipping fort...

+ Zelenskiy Says Ukraine Ready for Maritime Truce if Russia Agrees—resident Volodymyr Zelenskiy told leaders at the United Nations on Wed...

+ Container Shipping Faces 2027 Pressure as Huge Orderbook Hits the Water—The container shipping market is still benefiting from geopolitical di...

+ Trump Takes Aim at Shipping’s Net-Zero Plan at UN—President Donald Trump used his address to the United Nations General ...

+ Seafarer Killed in Hormuz Attack as Trump Pushes Iran Deal at UN—An Indian seafarer has been killed and another crew member injured aft...

+ Transforming the River Port, LLC Shipyard – Expanding What’s Possible—Bardex to deliver new 25,000Te OmniLift® Shiplift for River Port, LLC....

+ US, Korea Hail ‘Significant Progress’ on $350 Billion Trade Deal—Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung hailed “signific...

+ Death Toll from Capsized Ship in Indonesia Rises to 20 as Search Continues for 115 Missing Passengers—The official death toll from a passenger ship that capsized and sank i...

+ IMO Uncertainty Puts Shipping’s 2030 Fuel Target at Risk—Shipping is running out of time to meet a key 2030 target for zero-emi...

+ New York Leads Lawsuits Challenging $1.4 Billion Offshore Wind Buyouts—New York is leading a coalition of states in two new lawsuits challeng...

+ Trump Pushing for Diesel Export Ban Amid Surging Fuel Prices—By Josh Wingrove and Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) President Donald ...

+ Russia’s Arctic Port Murmansk to Use Fertilizer Equipment to Start Shipping Grain—Russia's Arctic port of Murmansk will use equipment typically used to ...

+ The Other Hormuz: Black Sea Blockade Threatens a Food Supply Shock—Tue Vuong had secured four cargoes of wheat harvested from fertile lan...

+ FMC Change Could Revive Older Detention and Demurrage Claims—A potentially significant change at the US Federal Maritime Commission...

+ France Mulls New UN Security Council Resolution on Hormuz—France has started drafting a UN Security Council resolution in coordi...

+ Trump Calls for Iran’s Economic Isolation at UN as Tehran Offers Hormuz Reopening—US President Donald Trump on Tuesday called for complete economic isol...

+ The Wartime Secretary of the Navy—What Hung Caos First Five Months Tell Us About the Job Ahead By Bruce ...

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+ Oil hovers below $100 as Trump signals progress in Iran talks—Oil prices sat below the $100-a-barrel level on Wednesday, as investor...

+ Crude Stock Surprises with Unexpected Increase, Defying Forecasts—The American Petroleum Institute (API) has released its latest report ...

+ War is reshaping LNG beyond winter—If LNG leaders went to Gastech 2026 in Bangkok looking for signs of di...

+ US refiners may maximize distillate output at expense of petchems—US production of aromatics from refineries could get squeezed as refin...

+ US Natgas Prices Hit 11-Week High—US natural gas prices climbed above $3.0/MMBtu, reaching their highest...

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+ Japan secures crude supply through Nov; Dec uncertain – PAJ chair: report—Japan has secured sufficient crude oil supplies for its domestic marke...

+ EU oil imports value up by 56%, volume stable in Q2 2026—In the second quarter of 2026, the value of the EU’s petroleum oil imp...

+ Saudi Aramco boosts crude loadings after pipeline disruption—Saudi Aramco loaded approximately 14 million barrels of crude oil on s...

+ India’s crude import bill rises 48% to $74.8 bn in Apr-Aug amid high costs—India’s crude oil import bill rose 48.4 per cent year-on-year to $74.8...

+ China’s soybean buying revival boosts US export outlook; tariffs cloud prospects—Chinas aggressive purchases of US soybeans for the marketing year 2026...

+ Russia set to extend diesel export ban past September—Russia plans to extend its ban on most diesel exports beyond the end o...

+ Saudi Arabia is running out of options to export oil. What does that mean for global energy?—Saudi Arabias ability to export oil is under severe strain as disrupti...

+ Saudi revives Hormuz shuttle to sustain exports amid rising risk and costs—Saudi Arabia found a new route for crude exports after halting operati...

+ Australia’s iron ore exports are about more than tonnage—Australia can remain indispensable to steelmaking while making less mo...

+ Saudi Aramco halts crude oil supply to European customers—Saudi Aramco has informed at least two oil refining customers in Europ...

+ IEA’s Birol urges South Korea, other Asian LNG importers to diversify supply amid conflict—South Korea and other Asian LNG importers need to step up their effort...

+ Singapore Aug petrochemical exports fall 21.8%; NODX growth at 46.2%—Singapore’s petrochemical exports in August fell by 21.8% year on year...

+ Govt okays LNG import at nearly $30/MMBtu, 3 times pre-Mideast war level—The government is importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) at nearly thre...

+ China’s crude purchase priority in a highfreight environment—As China’s refinery strategy has shifted towards revenue recovery foll...

+ Kingdom assures Asia of uninterrupted oil supply—We are ready to supply oil requirements of South Korea and other Asian...

+ No comment from Riyadh on oil delivery cancellations as scale of disruption remains unclear—The pipeline shutdown has put pressure on Saudi oil supplies to Europe...

+ Saudi Arabia’s oil export lifeline severed indefinitely – analysts—Crude oil supply concerns have mounted this week, after Yemen’s Iran-a...

+ Argentina soybean oil gains as Brazil premium narrows amid fresh supply data—South American soybean oil markets diverged in the week to Sept. 15, w...

+ Saudi Arabia crude exports face 4% global supply risk as Houthis tighten Red Sea grip—Saudi Arabia could run out of export stocks within days if the east-we...

+ Haldia Petrochemicals eyes LPG, new supply sources to reduce Middle East dependence—Indias Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd. will increasingly diversify its feed...

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+ Trump says Iran deal close, held ‘very good’ UN talks—U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that a peace agreement wit...

+ Chief Economists Expect Global Economy to Stabilize, but Fiscal Constraints, Rising Living Costs and AI Investment Uncertainty Threaten Growth—The global economy is stabilizing, but the fiscal support that cushion...

+ Goldman Sachs sees a surprising twist in the global inflation picture—The United States may actually have less of a persistent inflation pro...

+ US open to Iran talks at UN General Assembly, Rubio says—Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that the United States rem...

+ Fed’s Jefferson says discount window upgrades aid stability—Federal Reserve Vice Chair Philip Jefferson said Tuesday that recent i...

+ UK August borrowing hits highest non-pandemic level at £18.3 billion—Britain’s public borrowing rose to £18.3 billion in August, nearly a f...

+ India: Core industries growth eases to 4.8% in August on iron ore, coal drag—Output growth in Indias nine core industries slowed to a three-month l...

+ Europe’s Pitch Book: Energy goals all point in the same direction—Europe faces a fundamental constraint: an over-reliance on imported fo...

+ Eurozone Consumer Confidence Weaker than Expected—Consumer confidence in the Euro Area fell to -16.5 in September 2026 f...

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