The International Maritime Organization, the UN’s global shipping regulator, said it was pausing its evacuation operations in the Strait of Hormuz after an attack on a vessel.
Dozens of tankers passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, via a route along the coast of Oman promoted by a United Nations maritime agency. Confirmed strait crossings rose to 70 on Thursday, an increase of 105 percent relative to a day prior, according to data and analytics firm Kpler. Commercial vessels accounted for…
A ship was hit by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz, just hours after several freighters turned around while attempting to cross the vital waterway, developments that may undermine what had been a rapid reopening of the energy chokepoint.
Iran attacked a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, a U.S. official confirmed, leading a United Nations agency to pause an evacuation effort.
A ship was hit by an unidentified projectile in the Strait of Hormuz, marking a setback to efforts to restore traffic through the vital energy thoroughfare. Bloomberg's Abeer Abu Omar has the latest. (Source: Bloomberg)
The man who set a local Virginia politician on fire last summer has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. Circuit Judge James Reynolds handed down the sentence to Shotsie Buck-Hayes on Thursday as Danville City Councilman Lee Vogler and his family watched the court hearing. Buck-Hayes pursued Vogler at his office with a bucket […]
Iran attacked a cargo ship traveling through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, possibly upending President Donald Trump‘s diplomatic end to the war with Iran. A U.S. official confirmed to the Washington Examiner that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps “struck it with a drone.” The U.K. Maritime Trade Operations reported the attack Thursday afternoon, writing […]
A Liberian oil tanker made its way out of the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday despite threats to shipping from Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and using a new route close to Oman’s shore that has been promoted by a UN maritime agency.