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Iranian Shadow Fleet and Greek Affiliated Ships Lead Strait of Hormuz Transits Recent vessel tracking data details the continued movements of Iranian dark vessels as well as other ships moving through the Strait of (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Report: Russia Providing Iran Targeting Data on U.S. Warships in Middle East Russia is providing Iran with targeting information that includes locations of U.S. warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the Washington Post reported on (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Four Seafarers Killed in Hormuz Attack, IMO Chief Warns of Growing Risk to Crews At least four seafarers have reportedly been killed in an attack on a tug operating near the Strait of Hormuz, prompting a warning from the head of (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Washington Moves to Break Hormuz Shipping Paralysis With $20B Maritime Insurance Plan The Trump administration on Friday unveiled a $20 billion maritime reinsurance facility aimed at restoring confidence in commercial shipping through the (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Over 270,000 TEU Stranded as Container Carriers Halt Gulf Cargo Bookings Hundreds of thousands of containers are in limbo after ocean carriers suspend cargo bookings to Arabian Container (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Container Shipping Rates Rise as Asian Factories Reopen—But Hormuz Crisis Threatens New Shock Global container shipping rates edged higher this week as Asian export activity begins to rebound following the Lunar New Year holiday, with carriers (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Trump Fires DHS Secretary Kristi Noem After Turbulent Maritime Tenure President Donald Trump has removed Kristi Noem as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, ending a tenure that reshaped several key maritime (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Defense Go to gcaptain

US Sinking of Iranian Warship Piles Pressure on India’s Modi The US sinking of an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka’s coast expands the deepening Middle East war to India’s doorstep, unsettling New Delhi’s calibrated (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

US-to-Asia Oil Shipping Hits Record $29 Million as Tanker Rates Explode It’s never been more expensive to ship crude from the US to Asia, though some deals are starting to fall through already with rates (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Trade Court Ruling Opens Door to Tariff Refunds for U.S. Importers The U.S. Court of International Trade has ordered U.S. Customs and Border Protection to begin unwinding tariffs imposed under the International Emergency (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

‘Arctic Metagaz’ Sinks Off Libya After Blast; Moscow Blames Ukrainian Drone Attack An LNG carrier central to Russia’s sanctioned Arctic gas trade was rocked by an explosion around 4 a.m. on March 3 roughly 150 nautical miles southeast of (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Incidents Go to gcaptain

Strait of Hormuz Traffic Grinds to Near Halt as Security Threat Remains ‘Critical,’ Advisory Warns Commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has slowed to a near standstill as missile attacks, drone threats, and widespread electronic interference (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Crew of Sanctioned Russian LNG Carrier Arctic Metagaz Found Alive After Fire Incident Off Malta The crew of the sanctioned Russian LNG carrier Arctic Metagaz have been located alive after abandoning ship following a reported fire in the central (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Reactive Hull Cleaning: The Hidden Cost of Abrasive Cleaning Methods on Hull Coatings In-water hull cleaning is often treated as a necessary operational response to heavy fouling. However, when cleaning is performed reactively (after (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Sponsored Go to gcaptain

Container Shipping: Gulf Booking Freeze Triggers Congestion Fears at Global Hubs By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – After ONE cancelled bookings to Middle East Gulf ports yesterday, its chief executive, Jeremy Nixon, told delegates (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

White House Weighs U.S. Backstop for Tanker Insurance Amid Gulf Shipping Crisis President Donald Trump will review a set of policy options on Tuesday aimed at controlling energy prices during the escalating Middle East conflict, (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Trump Orders Federal Insurance Backstop for Gulf Shipping, Signals Possible Navy Tanker Escorts President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has directed the U.S. government to provide political risk insurance and financial guarantees for maritime trade (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Gulf War Risk Insurance Pulled as Reinsurers Exit The global marine insurance market is rapidly retrenching from the Persian Gulf as escalating military conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Red Sea Corridor Slips Back Into Crisis as Houthi Threats Resurface The brief reprieve in Red Sea shipping attacks ended this weekend as Yemen’s Houthi movement signaled an imminent return to targeting commercial vessels, (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

CENTCOM: US Forces Struck Iranian Drone Carrier Shahid Bagheri in Opening Hours of Iran Campaign Within hours of launching Operation Epic Fury on Iran, U.S. forces struck the Shahid Bagheri, Iran’s first dedicated drone carrier, according to the (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Defense Go to gcaptain

Shipping Industry Demands Protections for Maritime Workers on Front Lines of Middle East Conflict The escalating military conflict in the Middle East has placed seafarers and port workers on the front lines of a geopolitical crisis, prompting urgent calls (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Strait of Hormuz Enters Active Crisis: Five Ships Hit, Traffic Collapses, Tanker Markets Brace for Historic Shock The Strait of Hormuz has entered its most dangerous phase in years after a concentrated wave of missile and drone attacks struck five commercial vessels across (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

The First 36 Hours: Strait of Hormuz Becomes a War Zone, Tankers Hit, Shipping Giants Halt Gulf Transits The world’s most vital energy artery is under siege. Following coordinated U.S. and Israeli strikes that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Chokepoints Under Pressure: When Geography and Conflict Strain the Arteries of Global Trade There are moments when geopolitics feels distant from daily life. This is not one of them. By Paul Morgan (gCaptain) – With confirmed US–Israeli (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Operation Epic Fury: Iranian Corvette Sunk as U.S. Reports First Fatalities in Widening Conflict U.S. Central Command has confirmed the sinking of an Iranian Jamaran-class corvette at a pier in Chah Bahar during the opening hours of Operation Epic Fury, (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Defense Go to gcaptain

Belgium Seizes Russian Shadow Fleet Tanker Linked to Iran Belgian forces have boarded and seized the shadow fleet tanker Ethera in the North Sea, escorting the vessel to the port of Zeebrugge in what officials (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

What’s at Stake for Oil Markets after Iran Strikes? Trump’s strikes on Iran threaten the Strait of Hormuz, a critical chokepoint for 20% of global oil supply. Traffic has dropped sharply as Iran’s 3.3M barrel (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Energy Go to gcaptain

Will Trump’s Iran Strikes Break the Global Oil Market? U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran and Tehran’s retaliatory attacks across the Persian Gulf are disrupting oil exports from a region that supplies 20% of global (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Maritime Security Go to gcaptain

Iran Radio Broadcast Bans Hormuz Strait Transits After US-Israel Strikes Oil and gas tankers are avoiding the Strait of Hormuz after ships received radio broadcasts purporting to ban transit following US-Israel strikes on Iran. A (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Maritime Security Go to gcaptain

Do Gulf Allies Have Enough Interceptors to Defend Their Ports and Cities? US and Gulf allies face critical missile interceptor shortages as Iran launches sustained strikes. Stocks could run dry within days while Iran maintains (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Defense Go to gcaptain

Tankers Diverting Strait of Hormuz Region as U.S./ Israel Strikes on Iran Intensify  Tankers Vessel tracking data show the magnitude in the amount of trade trying to safely navigate around the U.S./Israel strikes on Iran and Iran’s (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Shipping Go to gcaptain

Freight Rates Stall After Lunar New Year as Carriers Eye Blank Sailings Container freight spot rates on the major trades saw limited movement this week as supply chains in China slowly began to restart following the new year (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Corpus Christi Expansion Cements U.S. Position as Global LNG Export Leader U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright signed an export authorization yesterday for a 12% expansion at Cheniere Energy’s Corpus Christi liquefied natural (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Russian Oil Tanker Diverts From Cuba as Trump Naval Blockade Deters Shipments The tanker Sea Horse carrying 200,000 barrels of Russian gas oil diverted from Cuba and is now drifting in the North Atlantic. The move worsens Cuba’s fuel (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Shipping Go to gcaptain

France Says ‘Ridiculous Provocation’ if Russia Behind Drone Near Charles de Gaulle Carrier Sweden shot down an unidentified drone near France’s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier docked in Malmo. French Foreign Minister calls it a “ridiculous (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Maritime Security Go to gcaptain

Permanent Docking Pier Reaches McMurdo Station After 9,100-Nautical-Mile Tow The McMurdo Docking Pier has successfully arrived at McMurdo Station, the United States’ research station in Antarctica, after completing a 9,159-nautical-mile (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Trump Admin Launches Environmental Review for California Offshore Oil Lease Sales The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced Wednesday that it will begin preparing a programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) to (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Offshore Go to gcaptain

Russia and Iran Launch Oil Price War for Chinese Buyers as India Retreats Russian and Iranian oil producers are slashing prices in a fierce competition for Chinese buyers after India cut imports by 40%. Nearly 48 million barrels of (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Shipping Go to gcaptain

Container Spot Rates Extend Losing Streak Despite Factory Reopenings Drewry World Container Index reveals global container shipping rates fell 1% to $1,899 per 40-foot container this week, marking the seventh consecutive weekly (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Shipping Go to gcaptain

Moody’s: Port Import Gains From Supreme Court Tariff Ruling May Prove Fleeting The Supreme Court’s decision striking down sweeping tariffs imposed under emergency powers may provide a temporary lift to U.S. port volumes—but the bump (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Mercy’s AIS Track Points to Panama Canal—Not Greenland—as Hospital Ship Steams South One day after departing Alabama Shipyard, the hospital ship USNS Mercy is holding a steady southbound course through the central Gulf of Mexico — and AIS (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Florida Speedboat Incident in Cuban Waters Leaves Four Dead, Sparks Diplomatic Tensions A confrontation between Cuban Border Guard forces and a Florida-registered speedboat in Cuban territorial waters has left four people dead and six injured, (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

West Coast Gateway Ports Hold Ground Despite Tariff Turbulence and Policy Whiplash The nation’s two busiest container ports posted double-digit declines in January cargo volumes, but industry leaders say the dip reflects comparison against (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Ports Go to gcaptain

Hospital Ship USNS Mercy Departs Alabama as Greenland Mission Remains Unclear The hospital ship USNS Mercy departed Alabama Shipyard on Tuesday, transiting southbound through the Gulf of Mexico at about 10.5 knots, closing out (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Defense Go to gcaptain

Venezuela Readies Larger Oil Cargoes for Export, Targets India Trading houses and buyers of Venezuelan oil have chartered the first very large crude carriers (VLCCs) to export from the South American country since a (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Shipping Go to gcaptain

VLCC Charter Rates Top $100,000 as DHT Locks in Premium One-Year Charter VLCC charter rates have pushed back into six-figure territory, with DHT Holdings (NYSE:DHT) securing a one-year time charter at $105,000 per day for the (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Sanctions, Seizures, and the Limits of Maritime Visibility The enforcement problem has changed. Detection is no longer the constraint. Attribution is. In December 2025, a combined U.S. Coast Guard and Marine special (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Sponsored Go to gcaptain

A Decade of Dominance: How the U.S. Conquered Global LNG Export Markets Ten years ago today, the LNG carrier Asia Vision departed Louisiana’s Sabine Pass Terminal carrying 3.3 billion cubic feet of liquefied natural gas bound for (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

EU Extends Red Sea Naval Mission to 2027 The European Union is keeping its warships in the Red Sea. EU member states have agreed to extend EUNAVFOR ASPIDES through February 28, 2027, allocating (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Defense Go to gcaptain

Too Much Ice and Too Little Draft: The Harsh Reality Facing a U.S. Hospital Ship Mission to Greenland President Trump’s proposal to dispatch a U.S. hospital ship to Greenland would run into a combination of environmental and logistical hurdles that make such (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Trump Warns of Higher Tariffs for Countries That ‘Play Games’ After Court Ruling President Donald Trump on Monday said any countries that wanted to “play games” after a key U.S. Supreme Court tariff ruling that they would face much higher (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Soaring Tanker Costs Force West African Oil Price Cuts West African crude traders are slashing prices as soaring freight costs and an unfavorable Brent-Dubai spread kill Asian demand. Tanker rates to Asia hit (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Shipping News Go to gcaptain

Panama Officially Cancels CK Hutchison Port Concessions, Clearing Path for Maersk Panama on Monday published in its official gazette a Supreme Court ruling canceling key port contracts held by a subsidiary of CK Hutchison, clearing the way (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Greenland Says ‘No Thanks’ To Trump’s Hospital Ship COPENHAGEN, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said on Sunday “no thanks” to U.S. President (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Defense Go to gcaptain

Fin Whale Ship Strikes Surge In Chilean Waters Fin whales feeding in Chile’s northern bays face escalating threats from ship collisions and fishing nets, making the region a global hotspot for whale (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Shipping Go to gcaptain

Denmark Evacuates US Submarine Crew Member In Greenlandic Waters NUUK, Feb 21 (Reuters) – Denmark’s Joint Arctic Command said on Saturday it had evacuated a crew member who required urgent medical (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Incidents Go to gcaptain

Trump Announces Greenland Hospital Ship Mission as Mercy and Comfort Sit in Alabama Shipyard President Donald Trump announced on Saturday via social media that the United States will send a hospital ship to Greenland to provide medical care, posting (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Defense Go to gcaptain

Slovakia Threatens To Stop Electricity To Ukraine Unless Kyiv Resumes Piping Russian Oil Feb 21 (Reuters) – Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico threatened on Saturday to cut off emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine unless (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Energy Go to gcaptain

Cuba Bound Tanker Carrying Russian Fuels To Test Trump Blockade By Lucia Kassai Feb 20, 2026 (Bloomberg) –A ship believed to be carrying Russian fuels is on its way to Cuba, putting US President Donald Trump’s (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Energy Go to gcaptain

Trump Administration Advances Third ‘Big Beautiful’ Gulf Lease Sale as Offshore Program Gains Momentum The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced Wednesday it will auction approximately 80.4 million acres of federal waters in the Gulf of America in August, (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Trump Slaps 10% Global Tariff Using New Trade Law After Supreme Court Defeat U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would impose a 10% global tariff for 150 days to replace some of his emergency duties that were struck (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Global Tariffs in 6–3 Ruling The U.S. Supreme Court struck down on Friday President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs that he pursued under a law meant for use in national emergencies, (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Supply Chains Brace for Renewed Turbulence as Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump Tariffs The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a landmark 6-3 ruling on Friday striking down President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs imposed under the International (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

CMA CGM Strengthens India Ties with LNG Ship Order and R&D Hub CMA CGM is doubling down on India, having finalizing shipbuilding contracts with Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) for six LNG-powered containerships while (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Oil Rallies as US–Iran Tensions Flare Oil gained the most since October as traders weighed whether talks between the US and Iran will be enough to avert conflict, following a report that American (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Canadian Shipyard Turns to AI Robotics to Automate One of Shipbuilding’s Toughest Jobs Seaspan Shipyards has awarded a $1.5 million contract to Alberta-based Confined Space Robotics to develop semiautonomous systems for blast and paint (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Shipbuilding Go to gcaptain

Phillips 66, Citgo Move Toward Direct Venezuelan Crude Purchases U.S. refiners Phillips 66 and Citgo Petroleum are seeking to buy heavy crude directly from Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA starting in April to maximize (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Norwegian Locks In Three-Ship Fincantieri Deal, Secures Yard Slots Through 2037 Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings has ordered three new cruise ships from Fincantieri—one each for Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises, and Regent Seven Seas (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Cruise Ships Go to gcaptain

Blue Whales and Blue Skies 2025 Vessel Speed Reduction Season Results and Rankings Shipping Industry Rises to Challenge of Larger Zones and Higher Award Thresholds Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies (BWBS) is proud to report the 2025 (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Sponsored Go to gcaptain

Port of Los Angeles Volumes Fall 12% as Tariff Uncertainty Clouds Outlook Los Angeles processed 812,000 TEUs in January, down 12% year over year, with exports hitting their lowest monthly level in nearly three years as tariff (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Hapag-Lloyd’s $4.2 Billion ZIM Acquisition Reshapes Global Container Shipping Map Hapag-Lloyd has agreed to acquire ZIM Integrated Shipping Services for $4.2 billion in a deal that would cement its position among the world’s top five (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Salvage Crews Remove Fuel From Grounded Barge Near San Juan Harbor Salvage crews have removed roughly 1,000 gallons of residual fuel from the grounded barge Defiant near the entrance to San Juan Harbor, significantly reducing (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Grounding Incidents Go to gcaptain

Gasoline Starved California Is Turning To Fuel From the Bahamas By Will Kubzansky and Lucia Kassai Feb 15, 2026 (Bloomberg) –US supplies of gasoline are being shipped out of the country to travel thousands of (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Energy Go to gcaptain

Russian Port Hit By Ukrainian Drones Days Before Geneva Peace Talks Ukrainian drones struck Russia’s Taman seaport on the Black Sea, damaging fuel tanks and port terminals just days before Russian and Ukrainian negotiators meet (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Maritime Security Go to gcaptain

U.S. Boards Shadow Fleet Tanker ‘Veronica III’ in Indian Ocean U.S. forces have boarded the sanctioned oil tanker VERONICA III in the Indian Ocean, marking the ninth vessel seized or interdicted in an intensifying (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Hapag-Lloyd in Talks to Buy Israel’s Zim Hapag-Lloyd AG is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli competitor Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd, the German company said on (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Russia Investigates Tanker Collision At Ust-Luga Port MOSCOW, Feb 15 (Reuters) – Russian law enforcement officials said on Sunday they had begun an investigation into a collision involving a tanker at the (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Collision Go to gcaptain

US Refiner Valero Energy Set To Import 6.5 Million Barrels of Venezuelan Crude Valero Energy is set to import up to 6.5 million barrels of Venezuelan crude in March, potentially surpassing Chevron as the top U.S. refiner of Venezuelan oil (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Energy Go to gcaptain

Japan Arrest Chinese Fishing Boat Captain Japan seized a Chinese fishing vessel and arrested its captain after the ship entered Japan’s exclusive economic zone off Nagasaki and fled inspection—the (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Maritime Security Incidents Go to gcaptain

Trump Unveils White House Maritime Action Plan to Restore U.S. Seapower America builds under 1% of commercial ships. The White House Maritime Action Plan bets on vessel fees, a trust fund, and zones, but Congress is the clock.By (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Navy Go to gcaptain

Singapore Sends a Clear Signal as Gas Tanker Captain Jailed Over Fatal Cover-Up xSingapore has delivered one of the clearest warnings yet to maritime professionals about the consequences of misleading authorities after a serious onboard (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Incidents Go to gcaptain

MSC Extends Dominance as Container Fleet Surpasses 7.2 Million TEU Geneva-based Mediterranean Shipping Company has reached a new milestone, pushing its total containership capacity past 7.2 million TEU and solidifying its (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Denmark Records 292 Russian ‘Shadow Fleet’ Tankers Passing Through Danish Straits New data compiled by the Danish Maritime Authority reveals that EU-sanctioned tankers linked to Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” made 292 voyages (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Shipping Go to gcaptain

US Allows Oil Majors to Broadly Operate in Venezuela, New Energy Investments The U.S. eased sanctions on Venezuela’s energy sector on Friday, issuing two general licenses that allow global energy companies to operate oil and gas (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Energy Go to gcaptain

Maersk’s Record-Setting Dual-Fuel Containership Goes LEGO The Danish toy giant LEGO is set to launch a new collector’s set celebrating Maersk’s methanol-powered flagship, Ane Maersk. The Maersk Dual-Fuel (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Navy Collision During Replenishment Draws Attention to Complex At-Sea Operations The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Truxtun (DDG-103) and the fast combat support ship USNS Supply (T-AOE-6) collided during a (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Defense Go to gcaptain

Fatal German Bight Ship Collision Was ‘Wholly Avoidable,’ MAIB Says Five sailors are dead because no one acted in time. A final investigation into the German Bight collision that sank the cargo ship Verity finds basic collision (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Accidents Go to gcaptain

CK Hutchison Escalates Legal Battle Over Panama Ports Ruling Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison has escalated a legal fight over its Panama Canal port concessions, triggering treaty arbitration and raising uncertainty over (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Mexican Ships Deliver Food and Supplies to Cuba as Island Faces U.S. Fuel Supply Crackdown Two Mexican-flagged ships delivered 814 tons of humanitarian aid to Havana Harbor on Thursday, defying U.S. pressure after Washington threatened tariffs on (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Dubai Ports Giant DP World Loses Major Investors Over Epstein Files Link British International Investment and Canada’s La Caisse pension fund suspended new investments with DP World after CEO Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem was named in (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Ports Go to gcaptain

Hapag-Lloyd Reports Lower 2025 Profit as Gemini Network Takes Shape Hapag-Lloyd reported preliminary 2025 financial results that came in at the upper end of its guidance, even as earnings fell sharply from the prior year amid (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Shipping Go to gcaptain

U.S. Warns Peru is ‘Losing Sovereignty’ Over Chinese-Owned Chancay Port The Trump administration warned that Peru is losing sovereignty over a Chinese-owned port near its capital city, after a local judge ruled that the port is (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Saltchuk Expands Maritime Portfolio with $1.5 Billion Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Acquisition Seattle-based Saltchuk has agreed to acquire Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, the largest dredging contractor in the United States, in a $1.5 billion all-cash deal (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

NATO Launches Arctic Mission After Trump’s Greenland Threats NATO will bolster its Arctic presence with a new mission after US President Donald Trump triggered an alliance crisis over his attempts to take (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Danaos Charts Ambitious Course with $4.3 Billion Backlog and LNG Expansion Danaos reported solid fourth-quarter earnings for 2025 while locking in $4.3 billion in contracted revenue and expanding into LNG through a new partnership (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

EIA: Expanded U.S. Licenses Set Stage for Venezuela Oil Production Rebound U.S. expanded licenses for Venezuelan oil exports are expected to restore PDVSA production to pre-blockade levels of 1.2M bpd by mid-2026. Vitol and Trafigura (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Energy Go to gcaptain

The Era of Quiet Tolerance May Be Ending for Iran’s Dark Fleet Iran’s oil exports slipped modestly in January, but the data points to durability rather than decline. A mature dark fleet ecosystem continues to move crude (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Western Seizures Drive Sanctioned Tankers Back to Russian Registry Western naval interdictions are forcing sanctioned oil tankers out of fraudulent flags and back under the Russian registry, marking a major shift in how Moscow (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

Venezuela Ships First Crude Cargo to Israel as Oil Exports Reopen (Bloomberg) — Venezuela is sending its first crude oil cargo to Israel in years as the Latin American country’s exports open up following the capture (Feed generated with FetchRSS) News Go to gcaptain

From Sanctions List to Lay-Up: MOL’s ‘North’ LNG Carriers Sit Idle Months After Delisting Four MOL LNG carriers built for modern ice-strengthened operations remain idle more than six months after the European Union lifted sanctions following (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Shipping Go to gcaptain