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

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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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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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German Courts Debate Seizure of Russian Oil and Shadow Fleet Tanker

Published Dec 11, 2025 2:54 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Eleven months after the German customs authorities first moved to seize a shadow fleet tanker and confiscate its cargo of Russian oil, the courts continue to debate the intricacies of the law in this unusual case. Germany’s Federal Fiscal Court on Thursday, December 11, upheld a lower court's decision suspending the ordered confiscation and sale. The tanker Eventin remains under detention off the German coast in the roadstead near Sassnitz on the island of Rügen. The 152,000 dwt is...

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U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Pairs With B-52 Bombers for Maritime Strike Trials

Published Dec 11, 2025 2:12 PM by The Maritime Executive

  U.S. Alaskan Command has completed a rare joint exercise involving U.S. Air Force bombers and a U.S. Coast Guard cutter in the Gulf of Alaska, combining the USCG's presence and targeting capabilities with the USAF's weaponry.  The operation involved the National Security Cutter USCGC Kimball, B-52 bombers from the 2nd Bomb Wing, and four F-35 Lightning II fighters from the 354th fighter wing, plus two aerial tankers and an HC-130 search and rescue aircraft. The operating route took the...

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BOEM Holds First Offshore E&P Lease Sale Since 2023

  The Department of the Interior has completed its first offshore oil and gas lease auction in two years, handing out more than one million acres of E&P rights in the U.S. Gulf for a total of about $280 million.  The biggest winners of this auction round were Shell, Chevron and BP, the largest players in the Gulf. In all, more than 200 bids were submitted on parcels amounting to just over one percent of the available lease acreage on...

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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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EPS Tanker Studied to Determine Results of Wind-Assisted Propulsion

A new study seeks to quantify the beneficial impact of adding wind-assisted propulsion to vessels while also establishing a framework for assessing the technology’s benefits in reducing fuel consumption and emissions. The study, which took place on the Eastern Pacific Shipping product tanker Pacific Sentinel (50,322 dwt), was conducted in association with the Global Center for Maritime Decarbonisation in Singapore.   The authors of the study highlight that one of the key barriers to the adoption of wind-assisted...

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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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