Few Foreign Ships Seen in Hormuz Amid Reports of Iran’s Insurance Plan May 19, 2026 By Prejula Prem and Julian Lee The Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed to commercial shipping, with maritime traffic reduced to a trickle and dominated by...
Iran Starts Bitcoin-Backed Shipping Insurance for Hormuz Strait May 18, 2026 By Golnar Motevalli Iran has started a Bitcoin-backed insurance service for Iranian shipping companies that want to transit the Strait of Hormuz, the...
Iran War Saddles Global Companies With $25 Billion Bill – and Counting May 18, 2026 By Medha Singh, Deborah Mary Sophia and Bernadette Hogg The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has already cost companies around the world at least $25 billion – and the bill...
Oil Tankers Transiting Strait of Hormuz Since Start of Iran War May 15, 2026 By Ruth Chai and Florence Tan The U.S. has maintained a blockade of Iranian ports, while Iran lifted and then reimposed its own blockade on marine...
Iran’s Threats to Hormuz Undersea Cables Highlight Vulnerabilites of Data Chokepoints May 15, 2026 By Meredith Primrose Jones Early this week, Iranian state-linked media floated a plan to charge the operators of undersea internet cables in the Strait...
US Efforts to End Iran War Stumble as Ship Seized Near UAE May 14, 2026 By Omar Tamo, Eltaf Najafizada and Alex Longley US efforts to end the war with Iran were dealt a setback after a commercial vessel was apparently seized by...
UAE-Owned Tanker Leaks Some Fuel off Oman Following Iranian Strike May 13, 2026 A unit of state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company said on Wednesday that one of its tankers struck by Iranian...
Supply-Chain Stress That Peaked in COVID Heads Higher Again May 13, 2026 By Brendan Murray The impact of the energy crisis on the global economy in recent months is showing up in gauges of supply-chain...
Hopes Fade for Iran Peace Deal as Trump Says Ceasefire on ‘Life Support’ May 12, 2026 By Nandita Bose and Nayera Abdallah Hopes for a peace deal on Iran faded on Tuesday after Donald Trump said a ceasefire with Iran was “on...
Iran Says It’s Deployed Mini Subs in Contest to Control Hormuz May 12, 2026 By Gerry Doyle and Golnar Motevalli Iran says it’s deployed small submarines to act as an “invisible guardian” of the Strait of Hormuz amid a series...