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...The US blamed Iran for attacks on tankers in the Gulf and a missile and drone assault on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure that temporarily knocked out half the kingdom’s output....
...In 2019, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps sparked a diplomatic and maritime security crisis in the world’s busiest energy waterway....
...It is also sanctioning Turkey’s Ice Pearl Navigation Corp, whose Yasa Golden Bosphorus ship handled Russian crude bought for more than $80 a barrel....
...The Niovi, a Panama-flagged oil tanker, was sailing from Dubai towards the port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates when it was commandeered by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, the US Navy...
...The 135,500-tonne Adora Magic City, commissioned by a joint venture between the China State Shipbuilding Corp and US-based Carnival Corp, set sail on Monday from Shanghai for South Korea and Japan before...
...One of the defendants is Behnam Shahriyari, a senior official of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Qods Force, who has been placed under sanctions by the US....
...The Marshall Islands-flagged Suezmax tanker, the Advantaged Sweet, was taken by members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, Centcom said in a statement....
...A Marshall Islands-flagged tanker, the Advantage Sweet, was taken by members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, Centcom said in a statement on Thursday....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Rupert Murdoch: The News Corp chair will step down following today’s annual shareholders’ meeting, becoming chair emeritus....
...“The designers Hannah and James went for a walk around Dover and came up with the idea of something inspired by Victorian bathing tents,” he says....
...Centcom originally placed the blame on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy but later updated its statement to say the action had been taken by Iran’s regular navy....
...The Niovi, a Panama-flagged oil tanker, was sailing from Dubai towards the United Arab Emirates port of Fujairah in the Gulf of Oman when it was seized by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, the...
...It introduced a freshwater surcharge in 2020, and in 2021 hired the US Army Corps of Engineers to advise on its water supply programme....
...And it's continued to do it from the waters of Taiwan, where it meets intermediary tankers, tankers that load oil from those ports....
...The 120,000-strong Revolutionary Guards Corps was established after the 1979 Islamic revolution in parallel to the conventional army to protect the republic from domestic and foreign threats....
...The statement came after Iran’s Tasnim News Agency, affiliated to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said on Friday that 17 other Greek tankers were in the Gulf waters, which could be seized by the elite...
...It has also been accused of attacking tankers and oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia....
...A shipyard subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corp, the world’s largest commercial shipbuilder, produced the Fujian....
...“That solution is unleashing US LNG,” Rice said, referring to liquefied natural gas, the chilled, condensed form of gas that can be funnelled into tankers and shipped overseas....
...Two things to start: Russia has positioned a liquefied natural gas tanker next to its Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, a possible contingency move in case energy supplies are interrupted during any conflict...
...This is somewhat ironic, not least because the economic impact of the UK leaving the EU is now obvious from the queues of lorries at Dover, but also because the UK’s election day is shared with a very European...
...Andrew Hill’s Management Challenge The UK government’s request to the army to help plug an avoidable shortfall in petrol-tanker drivers is a reminder that the military possesses plenty of qualities that...
...Tankers and cargo carriers are bound for Brazil, Cork and Gdansk. We surge through the sea’s anthologies of work, trade and travel....
...The US and UK point to Iran for a drone attack on an oil tanker. “Greenflation” may stall the clean energy transition....
...In the week to January 17, there were an average of 88 daily visits of cargo and tanker vessels to UK ports, lower than the 103 in the same period in November and down from 125 in the same week a year ago...
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