SAAM Towage Receives Carbon Footprint Award in Panama
SAAM Towage received the "Carbon Footprint Reduction" award from Panama's Ministry of the Environment (Level 3) as part of the national "Reduce Your Corporate Carbon Footprint" program. The award recognizes the company's efforts to reduce its carbon emissions during the 2024 and 2025 periods, certifying effective and measurable reductions in its towing operations in the country. Level 3 involves measuring…
Hormuz Traffic Dwindles As US Threatens Economic Pressure
Transit through the Strait of Hormuz appeared to grind to a near standstill on Friday after two more ships were attacked there and the United States said it could maintain a naval blockade of Iran indefinitely.A senior Iranian source said on Wednesday that there had been no progress in talks to build on a June agreement to end the war. Since the ceasefire renewed in the June deal broke down, Iran has…
Two Oil Slicks Appear in Gulf Following Oman Spill
Two slicks have appeared in Iranian waters, satellite imagery and video verified by Reuters show, as tit-for-tat attacks on oil tankers and other vessels by Iran and the United States spark concerns about environmental damage to the Gulf.A potential environmental disaster is already unfolding off Oman outside of the Strait of Hormuz where a grounded tanker, the Caroline Bezengi, is leaking Russian crude oil in a protected marine area and has created a massive slick some estimates put at 2…
Trump Orders Carriers to Retrofit Aircraft Carriers, Return to Steam Catapults
U.S. President Donald Trump has allowed the Navy to build ships overseas and ordered it to abandon a complex system for launching jet fighters from its aircraft carriers and instead return to using steam catapults, the White House said on Thursday.Trump signed a national security memorandum directing the change, which would require the fourth vessel in the Gerald R. Ford class of aircraft carriers to abandon the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) used on the first three vessels.
Drone Attack Sparks Fire at Ust-Luga Port
Firefighters were battling flames on Friday at Russia's Baltic Sea port Ust-Luga, a major energy exports hub, after a fire sparked by a drone attack, regional governor Aleksander Drozdenko said on messaging app Telegram.More than fifty drones were downed in the Leningrad region, he added, as the region around Ust-Luga, a centre for exports of oil and oil products, kept up efforts to repel the attack.The scale of damage was not immediately clear in the attack, which continues Ukraine's tactics of
