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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....
...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...
...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...
...The US and UK point to Iran for a drone attack on an oil tanker. “Greenflation” may stall the clean energy transition....
...Cobham, she argued, was about to “enter a golden age for air-to-air refuelling, with air forces around the world looking to recapitalise or replace ageing air tanker fleets in a potential expansion of demand...
...Sure, prices briefly went negative last year and even now the coast of Shetland is littered with unwanted tankers....
...Tanker tracking data shows the vessel arrived at the port on Thursday, which lies in the east of the country....
...In late May, they traced back to the Greek shipping magnate two of several tankers they located carrying Iranian petrol bound for Venezuela....
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