4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (973+ words) © SABBIR / Adobe Stock Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi militants have seized control of the historic port city of Mocha, four government military sources said, ina strategic shift that could threaten the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, one of the world's most important shipping routes....

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1173+ words) Posted to Maritime Reporter on September 10, 2026 NATO allies caught Russian submarines in the Arctic waters, near Svalbard Archipelago, this spring training to use a secret weapon that disables critical cables undersea without leaving fingerprints. Two Western officials described the clandestine…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (164+ words) © Pawinee / Adobe Stock Iran has suspended a 10% charge on freight fees for foreign vessels carrying imported or exported oil, gas and liquid petroleum products to and from Iran, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Thursday. A U.S. naval…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (153+ words) Posted to Maritime Reporter on September 10, 2026 Telegram reported that eight people were injured by sea drones in the popular resort at the Black Sea, Sochi. The post stated that the beach infrastructure in Sochi had been damaged to a certain…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (362+ words) A tanker carrying about 2 million barrels of Iraqi fuel oil was struck by a drone in Iraqi territorial waters on Wednesday, port officials said, and British navy-affiliated UKMTO reported that several merchant vessels in the Gulf had been hit by…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1024+ words) Iran said on Wednesday it had attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. sank five Iranian oil tankers, in the biggest declared wave of tit-for-tat attacks on shipping by both sides since the start of the six-month-old war....

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (952+ words) Posted to Maritime Reporter on September 9, 2026 How much oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz each day? All are trying to solve the mystery, but come up with wildly divergent conclusions. This mystery is causing crude oil prices to rise…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (969+ words) © Parilov / Adobe Stock The Middle East war intensified on Tuesday with Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen launching strikes on several Saudi cities, further embroiling a U.S. ally in the conflict, while U.S. forces hit multiple Iranian oil tankers and…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (741+ words) Yemen's Tehran-backed Houthis attacked four cities in the south of U.S. ally Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, wounding more than 70 people and setting oil installations ablaze in what appeared to be a major expansion of the six-month-old Middle East war.The Houthis,…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (119+ words) OceanWings has received an Approval in Principle (AiP) from ClassNK covering its Rigid Fixed (RF) and Rigid Tiltable (RT) wingsails. DNV, the independent assurance and risk management provider, has appointed Rob van der Spek as Artificial Intelligence (AI)… bound4blue has completed…...