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Iran's Floating Oil Storage Shrinks to Five-Month Supply

Published Aug 26, 2026 4:54 PM by The Maritime Executive

Analyst and media commentary on Operation Economic Outcast, US Treasury Secretary Bessent’s plan to squeeze Iran financially, has...

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Iran's Strait of Hormuz Deal With Oman Would Ban All Warships

Published Aug 26, 2026 4:10 PM by The Maritime Executive

Iran and Oman have been negotiating a deal on joint control of the Strait of Hormuz for weeks, and both sides say that they are ge...

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Spanish Police Arrest Smugglers Who Opened Fire on Patrol Vessel

Published Aug 25, 2026 8:11 PM by The Maritime Executive

Spanish forces have intercepted and arrested ten smugglers who allegedly opened fire on a patrol vessel off Huelva. It is the late...

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MARAD Takes Delivery of Fourth Training Ship, TS Lone Star State

Published Aug 25, 2026 7:17 PM by The Maritime Executive

The fourth of the new series of training ships being built for the U.S.’s state maritime academies, the TS Lone Star State, was ha...

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What Happens Next After the Expiration of the Hormuz MoU?

Published Aug 24, 2026 12:18 PM by The Maritime Executive

The maritime community, as it has had to for much of the last six months, is having to work out for itself what is happening in th...

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Op-Ed: "Alternative" GHG Proposals Would Derail IMO's Climate Progress

Published Aug 23, 2026 10:49 PM by Lukas Leppert

The shipping sector makes up 2-3% of global greenhouse gas emissions - about the same as the world’s fifth biggest emitting countr...

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Antarctica Could Get its First Subsea Data Cable

Published Aug 23, 2026 8:46 PM by The Maritime Executive

Chile has achieved a significant milestone in a project likely to see Antarctica get connected to the global fiber-optic network....

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Russia Launches Oniks Cruise Missile from Disputed Kuril Islands

Published Aug 23, 2026 6:38 PM by The Maritime Executive

Russia’s Pacific Fleet has followed up the provocative visit by President Putin on August 13 to one of the Kuril Islands (disputed...

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Stepping Stones to Security: Pacifying the Iranian-Held Tunb Islands

Published Aug 23, 2026 6:18 PM by CIMSEC

[By Francis J. Bell] Abu Musa, Greater Tunb, and Lesser Tunb occupy positions of strategic importance disproportionate to their si...

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Op-Ed: War With Iran Has Left Western World Exposed to Ballistic Missiles

Published Aug 20, 2026 8:35 PM by The Strategist

In six months of on-again, off-again fighting with Iran, the United States has effectively exhausted its supply of heavy air defen...

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