Operation Begins to Remove Oil From Rusting Yemen Tanker to ‘Avoid Catastrophe’: UN July 27, 2023 By Samy Magdy An international team began siphoning oil out of a decrepit oil tanker off the coast of Yemen on Tuesday, the...
Update: Ship Carrying 3,000 Cars Ablaze off Dutch Coast, One Crewmember Dead July 26, 2023 By Charlotte Van Campenhout and Rishabh Jaiswal A fire blazed on a ship off the Dutch coast with nearly 3,000 vehicles on board on Wednesday, killing one...
UN Could Start Removing Oil This Week From Decaying Yemen Tanker July 20, 2023 By Michelle Nichols An operation to start removing some 1.1 million barrels of oil from a decaying tanker moored off Yemen’s coast could...
Indonesia Seizes Iranian-Flagged Tanker Suspected of Illegal Oil Transfer July 11, 2023 By Stefanno Sulaiman and Fransiska Nangoy Indonesia’s coast guard said on Tuesday it seized an Iranian-flagged supertanker suspected of involvement in the illegal transshipment of crude...
Russia-Linked Oil Tanker Fleet Vanishes Even Faster Than It Grew July 11, 2023 By Julian Lee and Alex Longley A fleet of tankers that sprouted up out of nowhere to keep Russia’s oil moving has disbanded even faster than...
Russia’s Aging, Dark Fleet of Oil Tankers Gets Infusion of Newer Ships July 3, 2023 By Alex Longley and Serene Cheong An armada of tankers ferrying sanctioned oil around the globe is starting to get younger, bucking a months-long trend of...
UN Secures Insurance Coverage to Salvage Rusting Oil Tanker off Coast of Yemen June 14, 2023 By Samy Magdy The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced the successful binding of insurance coverage for the mission coordinated by the United...
The Dangerous $140M Mission to Defuse an Oil Tanker Ready to Explode June 14, 2023 An operation is finally underway to transfer the oil from a stricken tanker off the coast of Yemen that maritime...
Venezuela’s Oil Tankers at Risk of Spills, Sinking, Fires, Collisions: Report May 5, 2023 By Mircely Guanipa More than half of the 22 oil tankers in Venezuela’s fleet are so run down that they should be immediately...
Shipping Industry Intensifies Calls to Free Seafarers Still Trapped by Russia-Ukraine War February 24, 2023 By Brendan Murray The global shipping industry is stepping up calls for the United Nations and aid groups to help evacuate hundreds of...