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DNV: Efficiency Measures Are Shipping's Best Bet for GHG Reduction
The delay in adoption of the IMO's Net Zero Framework (NZF) has changed the outlook for low-emissions shipping, and DNV's annual F...
Read More >>Iran's Floating Oil Storage Shrinks to Five-Month Supply
Analyst and media commentary on Operation Economic Outcast, US Treasury Secretary Bessent’s plan to squeeze Iran financially, has...
Read More >>Iran's Strait of Hormuz Deal With Oman Would Ban All Warships
Iran and Oman have been negotiating a deal on joint control of the Strait of Hormuz for weeks, and both sides say that they are ge...
Read More >>Spanish Police Arrest Smugglers Who Opened Fire on Patrol Vessel
Spanish forces have intercepted and arrested ten smugglers who allegedly opened fire on a patrol vessel off Huelva. It is the late...
Read More >>MARAD Takes Delivery of Fourth Training Ship, TS Lone Star State
The fourth of the new series of training ships being built for the U.S.’s state maritime academies, the TS Lone Star State, was ha...
Read More >>What Happens Next After the Expiration of the Hormuz MoU?
The maritime community, as it has had to for much of the last six months, is having to work out for itself what is happening in th...
Read More >>Op-Ed: "Alternative" GHG Proposals Would Derail IMO's Climate Progress
The shipping sector makes up 2-3% of global greenhouse gas emissions - about the same as the world’s fifth biggest emitting countr...
Read More >>Antarctica Could Get its First Subsea Data Cable
Chile has achieved a significant milestone in a project likely to see Antarctica get connected to the global fiber-optic network....
Read More >>Russia Launches Oniks Cruise Missile from Disputed Kuril Islands
Russia’s Pacific Fleet has followed up the provocative visit by President Putin on August 13 to one of the Kuril Islands (disputed...
Read More >>Stepping Stones to Security: Pacifying the Iranian-Held Tunb Islands
[By Francis J. Bell] Abu Musa, Greater Tunb, and Lesser Tunb occupy positions of strategic importance disproportionate to their si...
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