Crooked Bough News Round-up

+ COSCO Denies Its Ships Collected Intelligence for Beijing—China's state-owned shipping giant COSCO rejected allegations it used ...

+ ‘We Are Stalled’: US-Iran War Stuck With No End in Sight—The US and Iran have intensified tit-for-tat military strikes in recen...

+ Diana Shipping Cuts Genco Stake Below 10% Weeks After Abandoning Takeover Bid—Diana Shipping has begun selling down its stake in Genco Shipping Tra...

+ Port of Oakland Advances $642 Million Harbor Widening Project for Larger Ships—The Port of Oakland and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have signed a des...

+ IMO Net-Zero Framework Holds Ground After Latest Round of Climate Talks—The International Maritime Organization’s Net-Zero Framework emerged l...

+ China-Russia Arctic Shipping Push Accelerates With New Ice-Class Container Ships—China’s NewNew Shipping Line and Russia’s state nuclear corporation Ro...

+ Korea Paving Way to Send Naval Ship to Hormuz, Reports Say—South Korea has begun preparations for a possible deployment of a nava...

+ Gulf Shipping Traffic Via Hormuz Keeps Below 10-day Average, Data Shows—Four commodity vessels transited the key waterway of the Strait of Hor...

+ ‘Pink Corridor’ Project to Study Nuclear-Powered Container Route Across Atlantic—Lloyd’s Register, A.P. Moller-Maersk and two major container ports are...

+ ABS and JB Energy Sign MOU to Support Floating Offshore Wind Development in Brazil—ABS and JB Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to c...

+ Alternative-Fuel Ship Orders Surge in August as LNG Drives Strongest Month Since 2024—Alternative-fueled ship ordering accelerated sharply over the summer, ...

+ War Risk Claims Top $2 Billion as Shipping Attacks Spread Beyond Hormuz—By Lori-Ann LaRocco The payout to vessel owners damaged in the Iran W...

+ Ukraine Attacks Ship Used to Repair Key Black Sea Oil Moorings—Ukraine attacked a small service ship involved in planned  repair work...

+ Dry Bulk Shipping Rates Surge on Tight Capesize Vessel Supply—A key measure of bulk-shipping rates has touched a two-year high and r...

+ Container Spot Rates Hold Steady as Transpacific Gains Offset Asia-Europe Declines—Global container shipping rates held steady this week as stronger pric...

+ Global Containership Fleet Set to Hit Record 34 Million TEU—The global containership fleet is about to cross another major milesto...

+ REGENT Seaglider Takes First Crewed Flight in Major Step Toward Commercial Service—REGENT Craft has completed the first human-crewed flight of its full-s...

+ Turkish Rescue Teams Search For 10 Missing After Cargo Ship Sinks Off Istanbul—Turkish authorities continued searching on Thursday for 10 crew member...

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+ The Commodities Feed: Oil maintains gains amid Persian Gulf escalation—Energy Iraq oil exports pick up in August Oil prices remain elevated,...

+ US fuel production rose in August—The US produced 13% more fuel oil per day on average in August compare...

+ Europe’s LNG Stockpiling Drives South Korea Electricity Cost Surge—Domestic natural gas prices for power generation have surged nearly 40...

+ US Natural Gas Prices Increase—US natural gas futures rose to $2.92 per MMBtu on Friday after sliding...

+ US crude oil production and demand increase in June—US crude oil production reached 13.79 million barrels per day in June,...

+ APPEC: Energy security takes center stage as Asia confronts shifting oil, shipping flows—Asias push for energy security amid evolving oil flows, shipping disru...

+ US confident Venezuela oil deal will attract investors: Wright—US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sept. 2 he was confident that No...

+ Chevron Expands Position in Venezuela—Chevron Corporation announced agreements with Venezuela that establish...

+ Eni, Chevron sign major upstream oil field development deals with PDVS—Italys Eni signed a strategic contract with Venezuelas state-owned PDV...

+ Oil slips after three-session rally as Trump downplays Iran war, Hormuz flows rise—Oil prices slipped in Asian trading on Thursday after three consecutiv...

+ US has few options to boost refining amid global diesel shortage: analysts—Despite US Energy Secretary Chris Wrights suggestion that Washington c...

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+ U.S. Nonfarm Payrolls Surge Past Expectations, Indicating Economic Strength—In a surprising turn of events, the latest U.S. nonfarm payrolls data ...

+ Carsten: Weathering the shocks—Several heatwaves and a long drought. A trade war between the US and C...

+ US trade deficit widens to $88.6 billion in July—The US trade deficit expanded in July to $88.6 billion, marking the wi...

+ Europe’s search for a new growth model—Why change a winning team? Europes economic model worked so well for s...

+ Industrial producer prices up by 1.6% in the euro area and by 1.4% in the EU—Overview In July 2026, compared with June 2026, industrial producer pr...

+ Eurozone business activity holds steady in August—The eurozone private sector maintained its growth pace in August, matc...

+ U.S. Services Sector Growth Slows Slightly, PMI Falls Short of Forecast—The latest release of the Services Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) by...

+ India Private Sector Growth Revised Lower—India’s HSBC Composite PMI stood at 54.3 in August 2026, down slightly...

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