Maritime News & Industry Headlines

The oil tanker  Hyperion  has reflagged to the Russian registry in what analysts say is a calculated move to shield the vessel from potential U.S. seizure, marking the second known case of a shadow...

Jan 4 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA is asking some joint ventures to cut back crude production amid an export paralysis, three sources close to the decision said on Sunday, ad...

Jan 3, 2026 (Bloomberg) –President Donald Trump said US oil companies will spend billions of dollars to rebuild Venezuela’s crumbling energy infrastructure after a military operation that led to th...

The U.S. Treasury Department this week imposed sanctions on four companies and identified four oil tankers as blocked property in the latest escalation of pressure on Venezuela’s Maduro regime, mar...

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — Russia and Ukraine struck each other’s Black Sea ports overnight, damaging infrastructure including an oil refinery. A drone attack on the Russian coastal city of Tu...

When historians chronicle 2025, they won’t remember it as the year shipping got more efficient or cleaner. They’ll remember it as the year the world’s oceans became a battlefield for national ambit...

BEIJING/TAIPEI, Dec 29 (Reuters) – China launched its most extensive war games around Taiwan on Monday to showcase Beijing’s ability to cut off the island from outside support in a conflict, testin...

BEIJING, Dec 29 (Reuters) – China’s military moved army, naval, air force and rocket force units around Taiwan on Monday for its “Just Mission 2025” drills, aimed at testing combat readiness and de...

Dec 26, 2025 (Bloomberg) -After the US warned that more strikes may follow its surprise Christmas Day attack on suspected terrorist targets in Nigeria, officials in the West African nation suggeste...

By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) — The global trading system, which is finishing up one of its most transformational years of the past century, heads into another facing more challenges to stability a...

Venezuela’s ruling-party controlled National Assembly unanimously approved a law on Tuesday that allows prison sentences of up to 20 years for anyone who promotes or finances what it describes as p...

WASHINGTON/LONDON, Dec 23 (Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard is waiting for additional forces to arrive before potentially attempting to board and seize a Venezuela-linked oil tanker it has been purs...