- — Turkey Restricts Black Sea Ship Traffic After Surge In Attacks
- ByPatrick Sykes and Weilun Soon Aug 8, 2026 (Bloomberg) Turkey is restricting commercial ship traffic into the Black Sea, according to people familiar with the matter, following growing concern from...
- — UAE Says Iran Attacked Vessel With Missile In Strait of Hormuz
- Aug 8 (Reuters)The United Arab Emirates on Saturday condemned what it said was an Iranian attack on a carrier linked to its state oil company as it passed through theStrait...
- — Scientists Turn To Sharks To Improve Hurricane Predictions
- By Marta Serafinko Aug 8 (Reuters) From the killer shark of Jaws to the tornado-tossed predators of the Sharknado movies, films long have portrayed sharks as objects of summer fear. But when a shark cuts through the...
- — Australia Unions Push On With Strike At BHP’s Port Hedland
- SYDNEY, Aug 8 (Reuters) Workers will continue a two-day strike at BHPs Port Hedland operations in Western Australia as planned, a union official said on Saturday, after the start of the first major...
- — Typhoon Dolphin Hits Japan’s Okinawa, China Shuts ports Ahead Of Landfall
- By Satoshi Sugiyama and Eduardo Baptista TOKYO/BEIJING, Aug 8 (Reuters)Typhoon Dolphin lashed Japans southern Okinawa prefecture on Saturday, injuring six people and cutting power to more than 50,000 buildings, while...
- — MSC Baltic III Wreck Being Pulled Ashore in Newfoundland
- Wreck removal crews have begun the slow process of pulling the grounded containership MSC Baltic III toward shore in Newfoundland and Labrador, marking a major new phase in a salvage operation that...
- — ADNOC Says Three Vessels Attacked This Week as Hormuz Shipping Remains Severely Disrupted
- Abu Dhabi National Oil Company said three of its vessels have been attacked this week while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, highlighting the continued danger to commercial shipping as traffic...
- — Rosatom Says Seven Chinese Vessels Will Sail to Europe via Russia’s Arctic Route
- Russia's state nuclear giant Rosatom, operator of the Northern Sea Route via the Arctic, said on Friday it had issued permits for seven Chinese transit vessels to sail to Europe via the NSR.
- — Iran Debates Hormuz Wording as Trump Says Deal’s ‘Moving Along’
- (Bloomberg) Iranian lawmakers are debating the wording of a proposed deal with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz, with US President Donald Trump insisting an agreement is getting closer....
- — Transpacific Container Rates Rally as Europe’s Peak Season Fades
- European trades saw spot rates decline for a fourth consecutive week, with carriers cancelling or cutting back plans for rate boosting, but for those operating on the transpacific, the situation was far rosier, as increases were recorded for both US coasts.
- — U.S. Container Import Peak Winds Down After Tariff-Driven Rush
- The early peak season for U.S. container imports is beginning to wind down after retailers accelerated shipments to get ahead of new tariffs and supply chain uncertainty stemming from the...
- — TOTE Mobilizes U.S. Shipbuilding Base for Navy’s $2.2 Billion Landing Ship Program
- TOTE Services has begun assembling the nationwide shipbuilding and supplier network that will support the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps’ Medium Landing Ship program, bringing together more than 30 shipbuilders,...
- — Vessel Traffic Through Hormuz Dwindles This Week As Markets Watch Iran-Oman Talks
- Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has dwindled to 33 vessels from Monday to Thursday this week, data showed, versus 50 in the week-ago period, as markets watched talks between Iran and Oman for signs of progress in reopening the key waterway.
- — UAE’s Adnoc Buys $1.3 Billion of Tankers as Oil Exports Boom
- The biggest oil producer in the United Arab Emirates spent $1.3 billion to expand its tanker fleet to benefit from surging crude exports after the country left OPEC and pushed more of its oil through the contested Strait of Hormuz.
- — UK Targets Arctic LNG Carrier, Five Oil Tankers in Latest Russia Sanctions Package
- The United Kingdom has expanded its sanctions against Russia with a new package targeting shipping, banking, and industrial entities, including six vessels accused of transporting Russian energy exports and an...
- — NTSB: Pilot’s Personal Phone Call Contributed to Fatal Houston Ship Channel Collision
- A Houston ship pilot’s extended personal cell phone conversation and multiple failures to maintain a proper lookout led to the fatal 2024 collision between the bulk carrier Yangze 7 and the towing...
- — ABS and Samsung Heavy Industries Advance 50 MW and 200 MW Floating Data Center Designs
- ABS and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) have announced two milestones advancing floating data center development, part of a series of innovative agreements following the opening of the Korea-U.S. Shipbuilding Partnership...
- — RWE Reaches $1.22 Billion Deal with Trump Administration to Surrender U.S. Offshore Wind Leases
- RWE has become the latest offshore wind developer to reach a settlement with the Trump administration, agreeing to relinquish its U.S. offshore wind leases in exchange for a $1.22 billion...
- — Germany Confronts Rhine Threat to Economy After Crisis Talks
- Germany’s economy is being threatened by a chronic lack of water in the Rhine, according to Transport Minister Steffen Bilger.
- — Shipping Industry Sees Major Obstacles to Iran’s Hormuz Control Plan
- A proposed deal between Iran and Oman that would give Tehran control over ships entering the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz is not easily workable due to U.S. sanctions and restrictive insurance clauses on any payments, four industry sources said.
- — Swedish Pilot Named Suspect in Fatal Cargo Ship Collision That Killed Two
- Swedish prosecutors have expanded the criminal investigation into last months fatal collision between the Norwegian cargo shipMisje Verdeand a pleasure boat by naming the vessels pilot as a criminal suspect...
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