U.S. forces destroyed 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near Strait of Hormuz as oil traffic stalls through the critical ...

Laying mines is cheap—and easy. Clearing them is expensive and hard. The potential consequences are terrifying.

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Where do Daisy Kelliher and Colin MacRae stand? The chief stew and the chief engineer acknowledged that they had "real" feelings for one another at the end of the Season 4 finale. However, due to ...

As the war between the United States, Israel, and Iran widens across the Middle East, it threatens to disrupt recent gains made by some African economies. A weaker dollar and lower interest rates had ...

Since the US and Israel attacked Iran, Iranian forces have warned vessels against passing through the Strait of Hormuz ...

Fears of a full-blown shipping crisis were temporarily averted after President Trump said that the US may provide security escorts and insurance guarantees to oil tankers and other vessels attempting ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tankers ablaze in the Gulf. Tehran warning ships to avoid a key waterway. Western nations struggling to protect ...

Sometimes, the North Sea just decides to take a shot at you. Henk Buitjes knows what it’s like. Once, it happened at night in rough weather. The Dutch shrimp fisher was hauling his nets aboard when ...

It is the route for supertankers carrying oil and gas from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Qatar, Bahrain, the UAE and Iran. Oil prices jumped Monday as the widening war in Iran disrupted tanker traffic ...