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Geopolitics and shipping: sanctions, conflicts, chokepoints and trade policy affecting merchant vessels and global sea routes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Dominican Republic-flagged merchant vessel Progress IV caught fire and sank in Romania’s exclusive economic zone, with President Nicusor Dan saying the ship was likely hit.
CENTCOM says US forces cleared Iranian sea mines from Hormuz shipping lanes, as tanker transits through the strait jumped more than 30% in a week.
