IRGC Claims That Oman and Iran Have Reached Deal on Hormuz Transit Fees

Published Aug 26, 2026 4:10 PM by The Maritime Executive

One day after Omani and Iranian negotiators hinted at an approaching agreement for a "temporary" Hormuz transit corridor, the Isla...

Spanish Police Arrest Smugglers Who Opened Fire on Patrol Vessel

Published Aug 25, 2026 8:11 PM by The Maritime Executive

Spanish forces have intercepted and arrested ten smugglers who allegedly opened fire on a patrol vessel off Huelva. It is the late...

Published Aug 25, 2026 7:17 PM by The Maritime Executive

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...

Published Aug 24, 2026 12:18 PM by The Maritime Executive

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...

Published Aug 23, 2026 10:49 PM by Lukas Leppert

The shipping sector makes up 2-3% of global greenhouse gas emissions - about the same as the world’s fifth biggest emitting countr...

Published Aug 23, 2026 8:46 PM by The Maritime Executive

Chile has achieved a significant milestone in a project likely to see Antarctica get connected to the global fiber-optic network....

Published Aug 23, 2026 6:38 PM by The Maritime Executive

Russia’s Pacific Fleet has followed up the provocative visit by President Putin on August 13 to one of the Kuril Islands (disputed...

Published Aug 23, 2026 6:18 PM by CIMSEC

[By Francis J. Bell] Abu Musa, Greater Tunb, and Lesser Tunb occupy positions of strategic importance disproportionate to their si...

Published Aug 20, 2026 8:35 PM by The Strategist

In six months of on-again, off-again fighting with Iran, the United States has effectively exhausted its supply of heavy air defen...

Published Aug 20, 2026 8:34 PM by The Maritime Executive

California-based USV builder Saildrone says that it successfully test-fired small missiles from its larger Surveyor sail-powered d...