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Japan oil wholesalers use ship-to-ship transfers to receive Middle East crude

Sanctioned Tankers Slip Through Hormuz Despite US Naval Blockade

Despite the US-imposed naval blockade targeting Iranian-linked maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, several sanctioned vessels have continued to pass through the strategi...

IRGC seizes two ships, transfers them to Iranian shores

Iran's Revolutionary Guards seized two vessels, the MSC Francesca and Epaminodes, for operating without authorization and manipulating navigation systems, transferring them to Iran...

Report: US Treasury Allows Demolition Sale for Four Sanctioned Ships

 The U.S. Treasury has authorized a demolition sale for four sanctioned vessels linked to the Shamkhani shipping network, a large-scale smuggling orga...

U.S. Troops Search Containership Suspected of Violating Iran Blockade

U.S. Central Command is reporting that it intercepted a small containership, Blue Star 3 (4,259 dwt), which it suspected was attempting to breach the...

U.S. Seizes Iranian-Flagged Cargo Ship Violating Blockade

The U.S. has seized the Iranian-flagged cargo ship M/V Touska which was violating the naval blockade, with the USS Spruance opening fire with its 5-inch MK45 gun and Marines boardi...

Two Sanctioned Tankers May Have Bypassed U.S. Navy Blockade on Iran

 Despite U.S. Central Command's claims of a total lockdown of Iranian shipping, vessel tracking consultancies have identified Iran-linked, sanctioned...

US Seizes Cocaine and Arrests Sailor on Tanker Carrying Drugs for Mexicans

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, working with U.S. Coast Guard and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, seized 227 kg of cocaine and arrested...

Dutch with machine guns protected cocaine on "mothership" that supplied smuggling boats

The cargo ship intercepted by the Spanish police with a record 30,000 kilogra

US Marines board and redirect Iranian-flagged tanker amid ongoing blockade

U.S. military forces have redirected 91 commercial ships and disabled four vessels during the Navy blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

Coast Guard Offloads $19.3m of Illicit Drugs Seized in the Caribbean Sea

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Resolute’s crew offloaded approximately 2,570 pounds of cocaine worth more than $19.3 million and transferred six suspected drug smugglers to federal author...

U.S. Disables, Seizes Iranian Container Ship Attempting to Run Strait of Hormuz Blockade

U.S. Central Command forces boarded and seized an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel, sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury, as it attempted to sail into an Iranian port, CENTCOM announced Sun...

Med-Mooring Dispute Interrupts Cargo Deliveries to U.S. Virgin Islands

Med-mooring is standard practice in some parts of the world (notably the Greek ferry sector), but the U.S. Coast Guard has banned two vessels from usi...

Seven Stowaways Removed from Rudder of Bocimar Tanker

 The Ghana Navy responded to a call for assistance from a Bocimar tanker sailing off the coast of Africa, only to find that seven stowaways were hidin...

Spanish Intercept Ship “Completely Stuffed” with Record Cocaine Load

Details are starting to come out on what will likely be Spain’s largest ever drug seizure, possibly three to four times the prior record. Guardia Civi...

Seized Iranian ship likely carrying equipment deemed dual-use by US, sources say

By Jonathan SaulLONDON, April 20 (Reuters) - The Iranian-flagged container ship Touska, which was boarded and seized by U.S. forces on Sunday, is likely to have what Washington dee...

Iran’s $800M oil smuggling scheme uses tankers posing as Iraqi ships to dodge blockade

Sanctioned tankers are allegedly disguising Iranian oil shipments as Iraqi cargo while Trump doubles down on the naval blockade to squeeze Tehran.

US Boards Sanctioned Tanker in the Indian Ocean Linked to Iran

U.S. forces boarded a sanctioned crude oil tanker that was transiting the Indian Ocean in what the Pentagon is calling “a right-of-visit, maritime int...

INTERCARGO Releases First Dedicated Dry Bulk STS Standard

Ship to ship (STS) transfers are an established part of dry bulk operations, and they are growing. As new trading areas and cargo flows emerge, STS operations are expanding into re...

US naval blockade collapses as Iranian ships employ dark fleet tactics

Around 28 Iranian-linked ships carrying oil and gas transited the Strait of Hormuz despite the US blockade, reports The Wall Street Journal. The tankers slipped through this critic...

Pirates Trade Gunfire with Security Team on Cargo Ship off Somalia

 A cargo ship departing Somalia is reporting that it was shot at by an approaching small boat and returned fire. It is the second report of a possible...

Three crude oil tankers exit Strait of Hormuz with trackers switched off

Two very large crude carriers (VLCC), the Agios Fanourios I and the Kiara ‌M, carrying 2 million barrels of Iraqi crude each, passed ‌through ⁠the strait on Sunday, shipping...

Busted at sea: Two tankers held over illicit diesel transfer off Penang

KUALA LUMPUR, April 13 — Malaysia’s Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) said it has detained two tankers for...

Suspected Pirates Take Control of Ship Off Somalia

Suspected pirates have boarded a St. Kitts and Nevis-flagged general cargo vessel off Somalia's waters and were sailing it towards the Somali coastline, British maritime security g...