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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...

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...

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...

The Trump administration has taken another step toward launching a U.S. offshore critical minerals industry, with the newly created Marine Minerals Administration (MMA) releasing a proposed leasing notice that could...

Ukrainian naval drones hit two large Russia-linked oil tankers in the Black Sea as Moscow and Kyiv expand the scope of their mutual maritime strikes.

Iran has asked Yemen’s Houthi movement to stand ready to close the Red Sea oil route if the United States strikes Iranian power infrastructure, three sources told Reuters on Thursday, posing a potent new threat to global energy supplies.

Autonomous vessel developer Saronic has selected Brownsville, Texas, as the site of a planned $3 billion shipyard that the company says will dramatically expand U.S. capacity to build autonomous vessels...

SEA-LNG says liquefied natural gas continues to dominate orders for alternatively fueled ships, while biomethane production and bunkering infrastructure are expanding as the shipping industry searches for practical pathways to...

Ukraine says its expanding drone campaign against Russia’s maritime logistics has now struck 147 vessels in just 11 days, extending operations from the Sea of Azov deeper into the Black...

Greece has thrown the European Union’s proposed 21st sanctions package against Russia into limbo, demanding exemptions for a domestic shipping company whose specialized Arctic liquefied natural gas carriers could become stranded assets under new restrictions aimed at tightening pressure on Moscow’s energy exports.

The US struck Iran for a fifth straight day overnight and hit a sanctioned oil tanker near the country’s main export terminal, as tensions between the warring sides show little sign of abating.

India has ordered shipowners, ship managers and recruitment companies not to deploy the country's seafarers on vessels undertaking trips through the Strait of Hormuz amid renewed fighting in the region.

The nation’s two busiest container gateways continued to benefit from an early peak shipping season in June as importers rushed cargo into the United States ahead of potential new tariffs,...

By Lori Ann LaRocco – The Port of Los Angeles, the nation’s busiest container seaport, processed more than 1 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in June, making it the busiest...

Iran has warned that its campaign to throttle global energy markets could be expanded from the Strait of Hormuz to the vital Red Sea route if U.S. attacks continue, a threat that depends on its Houthi allies in Yemen.

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) opened its 137th Council session in London on Monday with maritime security at the forefront, as Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez highlighted continued instability around the Strait of Hormuz, a...

Every year, Allianz Commercial publishes its Safety and Shipping Review, and every year the shipping industry's commentators reach for the same headline: the long-term decline in total losses, the improving safety record, the falling incident numbers. 

Lockheed Martin has agreed to acquire undersea warfare technology company Ultra Maritime from private equity firm Advent in a deal valued at $3.45 billion, expanding its capabilities in anti-submarine warfare...

The head of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has called for urgent international action to secure the release of 44 seafarers being held captive by pirates in Somali waters, warning...

Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd are taking another cautious step toward restoring container shipping through the Suez Canal, announcing that their AE15 service will transition from the Cape of Good Hope back...