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Sep 8, 2026 — Ukraine’s navy struck a small Russian service ship that was carrying out repair works on offshore moorings at the Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminal, a facility critical to Kazakhstan’s crude exports.
Sep 8, 2026 — Sanctions, a growing shadow fleet and geopolitical tensions are redrawing global maritime trade routes, pushing compliance to the center of decision-making for Greek shipowners.
Sep 7, 2026 — US Central Command says it permanently disabled two Iranian crude carriers and destroyed a third after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard fired ballistic missiles at a US aircraft carrier and destroyer.
Sep 6, 2026 — Greek Shipping Minister Vassilis Kikilias underscored the strategic importance of Greece-Japan maritime cooperation, noting Greek owners rank as Japanese shipyards’ second-best customers for newbuilding orders.
Sep 5, 2026 — Norwegian authorities impounded the Russian-owned expedition vessel Professor Molchanov at Barentsburg, Svalbard, after a court order sought by Ukraine’s Naftogaz to enforce a $4.22 billion arbitration award over the 2014 seizure of Crimean energy assets.
Sep 3, 2026 — Senior Trump administration officials say China’s state-owned shipping giant COSCO conceals signals-intelligence equipment aboard its commercial vessels to monitor military communications near the coastlines of target nations, including the United States.
Sep 2, 2026 — A Saudi Arabian and a South Korean oil tanker were hit by unknown projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz within minutes of each other as renewed US-Iran fighting pushed crude prices higher.
Sep 1, 2026 — Ship-tracking data shows commodity vessel transits through the Strait of Hormuz held near five per day on Monday, far below the 10-day average, as no liquid tankers crossed the chokepoint.
Aug 31, 2026 — At least six people were killed, including two rescue workers, after suspected Houthi missile strikes hit the Egyptian-owned cargo ship Tihamah near the Bab el-Mandeb strait, with ten more injured.
Aug 30, 2026 — A passenger catamaran ferry carrying 267 people capsized in seas north of Cyprus, near Kyrenia, with at least eight confirmed dead and 17 still missing.
