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April 9, 2026
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with the?U.S. Donald Trump, the President of the United States, spoke with?Keir Starmer on Thursday about?the necessity of a plan that would restore shipping through Strait of Hormuz as quickly as possible. Downing Street announced a ceasefire with Iran.
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April 9, 2026
French Foreign Minister Jean Noel Barrot stated on Thursday that the ceasefire agreement between Iran and the United States should also cover military actions in Lebanon. He added that France had condemned Israel's "massive strikes" of Wednesday.
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March 4, 2026
Shipping sources reported that the crew of the Maltese container ship Safeen Prestige abandoned ship after it was damaged by a projectile as it sailed towards?the top of the Strait of Hormuz? on Wednesday. Vanguard, a British maritime risk management company…
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December 7, 2025
The G7 plan to ban tankers from transporting Russian oil raises the stakes in the West-Moscow economic standoff, but whether governments ratchet sanctions up on those who skirt the sanctions will determine the final outcome. The West will need to move quickly…
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March 2, 2026
Jeremy Nixon (CEO of Ocean Network Express) said that container ships accounted for about 100 of the 750 ships backed up around 'the Strait of Hormuz after U.S. Nixon told a container shipping conference in Long Beach California that "about…
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February 24, 2026
The Pentagon announced a?on?Tuesday that U.S. forces had captured an oil?tanker sanctioned in the Indian Ocean, after tracking it from Caribbean waters. It was the third such?interdiction. The U.S. Department of Defense announced in a post to X that its forces had boarded Bertha over night.
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January 16, 2026
An industry source said that oil exports via the Caspian 'Pipeline' - consortium, which transports oil from Kazakhstan to a Russian terminal in the Black Sea - plummeted 24% in December following a drone strike. Sources claim that exports fell?from November to 3.98 metric tonne…
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July 9, 2025
The operator of the port said that the poor French harvest was the reason for the 40% drop in 2024/25 cereal shipments. Haropa Port, the port operator, said that 5.2 million tons of cereals were loaded in Rouen during 2024/25 compared to 8.7 millions tons in 2023/24.
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November 10, 2024
Al Masirah TV (the main Houthi-run television news outlet) reported Sunday that the United States and Britain conducted raids in the Yemeni capital Sanaa and the Amran Governorate, among other areas. Residents and media from the Houthi group claimed that nine raids targeted Sanaa and its suburbs…
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August 12, 2024
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency (UKMTO), said Tuesday, that a ship's crew reported an explosion 63 nautical mile southwest of Yemen's Hodeidah. In a note of advice, the agency stated that the vessel and crew were safe and that the ship was proceeding to the next port.
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June 23, 2025
Oil prices dropped 1% on Monday, after reaching a five-month peak. Markets were trying to gauge the effect of U.S. airstrikes on Iran over the weekend on the transit of oil and natural gas through the Strait of Hormuz. Brent crude futures fell 70 cents or 0.9% to $76.31 per barrel at 10:46 am ET.
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July 23, 2024
Hans Grundberg, the U.N.'s Special Envoy for Yemen, told the U.N. Security Council that recent developments in the Red Sea suggest the threat of international shipping by Yemen's Houthis has grown. Grundberg, in a briefing about the situation…
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July 1, 2024
Yemen's Houthis announced on Monday they had conducted four military actions targeting four ships, including four in the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and Indian Ocean, "linked to United States, United Kingdom, and Israel". Yahya Saarea…
