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Trump Urges Foreign Ships to Resume Oil Deliveries to Asian Markets As Brent prices briefly surged past $100 per barrel on Monday, President Donald Trump urged foreign-flag tanker crews to accept the risks of a Hormuz...

Well, mr. President. Merchant mariners are a strange breed of people. We faced winter North Atlantic or a typhoon in the South China Sea . We already have "the guts". maritime-executive.com/article/trum...

Agreed

Navigation bridge on an oil tanker trying to get through Hormuz

Average oil tanker captain trying to break through the strait of Hormuz

💡 Since, at this time, the US Navy doesn't have assets to escort merchant ships through Hormuz, we'll send this strapping lass to distract the Iranians in the Strait, while a sh*tload of loaded tankers sneak out of the Persian Gulf.

Kabinet besluit Zr.Ms. Evertsen in te zetten in Middellandse Zee | Defensie.nl Het luchtverdedigings- en commandofregat Zr.Ms. Evertsen wordt vanaf deze week tot begin april ingezet in het oostelijk deel van de Middellandse Zee. Het fregat gaat daar een bijdrage leveren aan de v...

The Royal Netherlands Navy AAW frigate HNLMS Evertsen will be deployed in the Eastern Mediterranean from this week until early April. She will contribute to the defense of the Carrier Strike Group Charles de Gaulle and the defense of Cyprus and allied territory. www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieu...

The remarks come as the maritime industry confronts one of the most dangerous operating environments for civilian shipping in years, with missile strikes, drone attacks, and unexplained explosions reported across the Persian Gulf region

Trump Tells Ships to ‘Show Some Guts’ in Hormuz as Seafarer Death Toll Rises President Donald Trump urged commercial vessels to continue sailing through the Strait of Hormuz despite escalating attacks on merchant shipping, saying shipowners should not be deterred by security r...

President Donald Trump urged commercial vessels to continue sailing through the Strait of Hormuz. “These ships should go through the Strait of Hormuz and show some guts,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News. gcaptain.com/trump-tells-...

Staking scheepvaartbegeleiders MDK dreigt nautische keten te verlammen Vanavond dreigt de nautische keten stil te vallen door stakingsacties bij het agentschap Maritieme Dienstverlening en Kust (MDK). De scheepvaartbegeleiders (VTS) zouden om 19.30 uur het werk neerlegge...

Tonight, trafgic on the Scheldt River, to and from Antwerp, is threatened with a standstill due to a strike at the Maritime Services and Coastal Agency (MDK). The VTS operators were scheduled to strike at 1930. There is significant unrest over the pension reform. www.flows.be/scheepvaart/...

The US Navy struck three Iranian vessels in the Persian Gulf: two anchored off Bandar Lengeh, including the Haj Qasem, and one at Bandar Kong. Three IRGC patrol boats were sheltering among cargo vessels at Bandar Lengeh.

The EIA defines a chokepoint as a passage that, if closed, would force tankers to add thousands of miles to their journey. While Gibraltar is the only natural entrance to the Mediterranean, the EIA considers the "bottleneck" to be at the Suez Canal or the Turkish Straits.

In EIA reports on world oil transit chokepoints, the Strait of Gibraltar is not classified as a primary "chokepoint."
​Because the Strait of Gibraltar is wide and deep enough to accommodate the world’s largest tankers without the logistical bottlenecks or physical limitations of other chokepoints

LIVE US-Israeli strikes batter Iranian ships as oil prices soar LIVE UPDATES: Follow the latest developments and fallout from the US-Israel war with Iran as the conflict enters a new week.

The US Navy has reportedly attacked three Iranian ships in the Persian Gulf.

Sources say the merchant vessels were struck during strikes on the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

You get a chokepoint, you get a chokepoint, everybody gets a chokepoint

Cognitive dissonance of Belgian politicians with regard to the state of our Navy After a lot of chest-thumping by politicians and some Navy officers claiming that Belgium could play a role in the conflict in the Persian Gulf and in the protection of our citizens and merchant marin...

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Old news. Passed a few days ago

Average daily charter rates for tankers. (Price you pay for "renting" a tanker to carry your oil cargo)

Everybody is looking at Hormuz. What you should be watching is Malacca Strait. All red symbols are tankers... more about this in the next few days

Yes, but crude oil tankers usually stick to the above sizes because economicallynot really that beneficial. LPG and LNG tankers are being built in neopanamax.

George Prokopiou: His ships defy the missiles in the Strait of Hormuz, as Onassis & Niarchos once did, writes the Wall Street Journal - ProtoThema English In a feature on the Greek shipowner, the Wall Street Journal describes one of the boldest moves of his career, as his ships are among the very few sailing through the Strait of Hormuz

Prokopiou size en.protothema.gr/2026/03/08/g...

MSC announces multiple surcharges across global routes - Container News MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company announced a series of rate increases and surcharges across multiple trade routes.

That's going to hurt. We're focusing on tankers but don't forget around 80% of fresh produce for the Gulf region comes from containerships from Asia/Europe. CEO from logistics company Kuehne+Nagel predicts Dubai will run out of fresh produce middle of March. container-news.com/msc-announce...

Panamax is small

Verschillende raffinageproducten kan je niet mengen of mixen. Als je pijpleidingen voor al die verschillende de fracties moet aanleggen of iedere keer spoelen voor je een andere distillaat, concentraat of raffinageproduct kan laden of lossen, is het nt economisch werkbaar.

The Saverys family (through their company CMB) took a controlling interest in Euronav recently after a high-profile corporate battle with John Fredriksen (another shipping tycoon). This means the ultimate "boss" of these ULCCs is now CMB (Compagnie Maritime Belge).

As of March 2026, the ownership of the world's remaining ULCCs (specifically the famous TI Class ships) is almost entirely centralized under one company: Euronav NV.
​Based in Antwerp, Belgium.

Different sizes of oil tankers. A VLCC can carry around 2 million barrels of oil. ULCC between 3 to 4 million barrels. Current price per barrel around 90usd

Washington Moves to Break Hormuz Shipping Paralysis With $20B Maritime Insurance Plan The Trump administration on Friday unveiled a $20 billion maritime reinsurance facility aimed at restoring confidence in commercial shipping through the Persian Gulf, moving to operationalize a federa...

The Trump administration on Friday unveiled a $20 billion maritime reinsurance facility aimed at restoring confidence in commercial shipping through the Persian Gulf gcaptain.com/washington-m...

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