Chinese buyers shunned offers for Venezuelan crude this week, as a US blockade on the South American producer constrains exports and pushes up prices.

The newly delivered Arc7 ice-class liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier Alexey Kosygin has departed the Russian Far East on its maiden voyage and is heading… Weiterlesen »Russia’s New Arc7 LNG Carrier ‘Alexey Kosygin’ Steams North Toward Arctic LNG 2

A catastrophic collision between two tankers in the South China Sea in 2024 has revealed a troubling chain of failures involving crew fatigue, disabled safety… Weiterlesen »Fatal South China Sea Collision: Fatigue and Disabled Alarms Behind Deadly Tanker Crash

Over a weekend that will reshape the southern Caribbean for years to come, commercial shipping in the region entered uncharted waters.  Paul Morgan (gCaptain) –… Weiterlesen »Caribbean Shipping Confronts New Era of Risk After U.S. Raid in Venezuela

The Trump administration is revamping how offshore oil and gas export terminals are approved, handing control of the deepwater port licensing process from the U.S.… Weiterlesen »White House Shifts Deepwater Port Licensing to MARAD in Bid to Accelerate Energy Exports

OSLO, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Latvian police have found no evidence linking a ship docked in the port of Liepaja to damage to an underwater telecoms cable running in the Baltic… Weiterlesen »Latvia Finds No Link Between Ship and Baltic Cable Breach, Probe Goes On

Russia has used a single icebreaker ship to continue exporting liquefied natural gas from a US-sanctioned project in the Arctic through the winter, highlighting Moscow’s… Weiterlesen »Russia Leans on Lone Ice-Class LNG Carrier to Keep Sanctioned Arctic Project Alive

About a dozen tankers loaded with Venezuelan crude oil and fuel have left the country’s waters in dark mode since the start of the year,… Weiterlesen »About a Dozen Oil Tankers Have Left Venezuela Despite Trump Blockade, Data Shows and Sources Say

Venezuelan oil exports — measure by ship loadings — fell to a 17-month low in December amid a US naval blockade designed to bring the… Weiterlesen »Venezuela Oil Ship Logjam Highlights Deeper US Blockade Pain

By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS, Jan 4 (Reuters) – An underseatelecoms cable was damaged in the Baltic Sea on Friday and Latvian investigators on Sunday boarded a ship in connection with the incident,… Weiterlesen »Latvia Police Board Vessel After Baltic Sea Telecom Cable Breach