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Russian Caspian Sea oil platform

Ukraine Strikes Caspian Sea for the First Time, Damaging Lukoil Platform

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U.S. Coast Guard boarding team seizes the bridge aboard the tanker Skipper, Dec. 10 (U.S. DOJ)

Seized Shadow Fleet Tanker Gets Under Way in U.S. Coast Guard Custody

Published Dec 11, 2025 5:21 PM by The Maritime Executive

  The seized tanker Skipper has turned its AIS transponder back on and is now broadcasting a position just east of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, heading northbound for an unknown destination. The stateless, sanctioned vessel was captured on Wednesday by a U.S. Coast Guard boarding team in a rare execution of an arrest warrant in international waters. A federal court authorized the capture of the Skipper for alleged violations of sanctions on Iran's energy industry, confirmed by multiple independent...

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UK Southampton

NYK and Mitsui OSK to Settle Long-Running UK Pricing Fixing Allegations

Published Dec 11, 2025 5:18 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Two of Japan’s leading shipping companies and operators of car carriers have agreed to settle a long-running case in the UK that alleged the major shipping companies worked as a cartel to fix prices and collude in vehicle shipment contracts. The UK case is similar to other complaints brought in jurisdictions around the globe, which all found the car carriers had colluded to set global pricing. Most of the cases had been brought by regulators, including the European Union,...

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UK shadowing Russian submarine

Royal Navy Tracks Russian Submarine’s Transit of English Channel

Published Dec 11, 2025 3:52 PM by The Maritime Executive

The UK’s Royal Navy is highlighting that it once again tracked the movements of a Russian submarine and its escorts traveling through the English Channel in recent days. According to the Royal Navy, there has been a 30 percent increase in Russian vessels transiting UK waters in the past two years. The latest effort took place over three days and involved shadowing the Russian Kilo-class submarine Krasnodar. Commissioned in 2015 as part of the third flight of the...

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Iranian floating storage tanker (NIOC file image)

Billionaire "Dark Fleet" Oil Traders Weigh In on Iran's Succession Battle

Published Dec 11, 2025 3:09 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is aging and his health is now openly discussed within Iran, raising the prospect of a succession battle over the future of religious rule - with implications for wealthy Iranian oil traders who provide the workarounds needed to circumvent Western sanctions. Iran's religious rulers derive support from corruption and criminal networks, which both prop up the regime but which also make enormous profits for those connected to the inner circle. Two particular characters have weighed into...

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Norway Approves Applications for Two Floating Wind Projects

  Norway’s Ministry of Energy reports that it will award two project areas in the Utsira Nord region off the coast of Stavanger after having reviewed the applications received in the award program. Norway previously reported that two consortia had been formed and each submitted bids, which have now been confirmed. The area which is 1,010 square kilometers, would place wind turbines at least 7 km (4.3 miles) from shore.  Because of the water depth and the challenges along the...

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Shipbuilding

Bath Iron Works shipyard workers aboard the future USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr. (DDG 124) during sea trials, July 15 (USN file image)

Tech Startup Wants to Reward Generational Transfer of Shipbuilding Skills

  A new startup supported by NOAA's tech accelerator program believes that it has a solution to the loss of older, more skilled workers from America's shipyards: an AI-powered training platform for the next generation, designed to capture and reward the expertise of retirement-age employees before they leave.  Since the pandemic, a generational cycle of retirement has swept the American shipbuilding industry, taking with it the accumulated knowledge of thousands of experienced engineers, welders, fitters and electricians. Their replacements have...

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Environment

green methanol fueled cement carrier

Public-Private Partnership Develops First Methanol-Powered Cement Carrier

  A new project supported by the Norwegian government, along with German shipping company Hartmann Group, will demonstrate new opportunities in sustainable shipping, distributing cement in Norway’s domestic market. The vessel, which is due to enter service in the first quarter of 2028, will primarily use green methanol as its fuel, reducing CO2 emissions and demonstrating the emerging potential for sustainable shipping in smaller segments of shipping. In early 2025, Heidelberg Materials Norway, part of one of the world's largest...

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UK Southampton

NYK and Mitsui OSK to Settle Long-Running UK Pricing Fixing Allegations

  Two of Japan’s leading shipping companies and operators of car carriers have agreed to settle a long-running case in the UK that alleged the major shipping companies worked as a cartel to fix prices and collude in vehicle shipment contracts. The UK case is similar to other complaints brought in jurisdictions around the globe, which all found the car carriers had colluded to set global pricing. Most of the cases had been brought by regulators, including the European Union,...

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