The Liberia-flagged LNG carrier Vivit Africa LNG (IMO 9950105, MMSI 636022258, call sign 5LHX8) diverted from its Italian discharge after…
Category: Maritime Security
Turkey Says Black Sea Positions Remain Hard to Reconcile as Grain Ships Keep Taking Fire
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Russia and Ukraine have answered Ankara's draft memorandum on civilian Black Sea shipping, but…
CENTCOM Says One Billion Barrels Crossed Hormuz as AIS Still Shows Four-Ship Days
CENTCOM said more than one billion barrels of Gulf crude moved through Hormuz under coordinated protection, while Kpler still shows…
Joint War Committee Lists Almost the Entire Black Sea as War-Risk Area
Reuters reported on Thursday, 18 September 2026, that London’s marine insurance market has widened the Black Sea area it treats…
VLCC China Earnings Top $1.2 Million a Day as Hormuz Shuttles Absorb Extra Hulls
The Baltic Exchange’s weekly tanker wrap dated 18 September 2026 put the standard VLCC on TD3C, the 270,000-tonne Middle East…
UN Secretary-General Says Conflicts Are Infringing Navigation as World Maritime Day Falls on 24 September
The IMO has posted António Guterres’s World Maritime Day 2026 message, warning that conflicts are infringing navigational rights and threatening…
Russia Claims Geran Hits on an Odesa-Bound Cargo Ship and a Port Tanker as Hulls Stay Unnamed
Interfax reported on Saturday that Russia’s Defence Ministry said Geran-4 Seeker UAVs had struck a dry-cargo ship inbound to Odesa…
UN Security Council Condemns Houthi Threats to Red Sea Shipping as August Bab el-Mandeb Traffic Halves
The 15 members of the United Nations Security Council issued a statement on Friday, 18 September 2026, condemning Houthi attacks…
IRGC Claims a Strike on Togo-Flagged Tanker Trend as UKMTO Leaves the Hull Unnamed
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said in an early-Friday statement that it had struck the Togo-flagged products tanker Trend…
Aramco Moves 60 Million Barrels Through Hormuz for STS Off Sohar as Yanbu Stays Constrained
Trade sources told Reuters on Friday, 18 September 2026, that Saudi Arabia has sold about 60 million barrels of crude…
