Andrew Craig-Bennett gives his take on shipping and the Middle East. Well, isn’t life just wonderful! We have, for most practical purposes, one of our forebears’ favourite things, a Suez Canal closure! Just when the […]
Two unidentified merchant vessels have reported an attack off Yemen. Maritime security consultancy Ambrey said it received a report that a ship was suspiciously approached 68 nautical miles southwest of Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah […]
On Saturday, the Houthis struck a shadow tanker with a history of hauling Venezuelan and Russian oil. None of the 23 Filipino crew was injured when the 21-year-old vessel was hit. US Central Command said […]
The Shahid Mahdavi vessel crossed the equator and entered the Southern Hemisphere on May 4, 2024, Dryad Global highlighted in its latest Maritime Security Threat Advisory (MSTA), which was published this week. Iran’s Islamic Revolution […]
The Houthis remain on the offensive, taking aim at US naval ships and merchant vessels far away from their Yemeni shoreline. US forces destroyed yesterday one Houthi-launched airborne unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on a flight […]
Aside from the Dali containership still pinned to a riverbed in Baltimore, the Andromeda Star could lay claim to being the most infamous ship of the year to date. The tanker (pictured), which was involved […]
After a break of more than two weeks, the Houthis from Yemen struck back at ships yesterday. The militants took aim at the Maersk Yorktown and an American destroyer in the Gulf of Aden, as […]
The Houthis claimed over the weekend to have widened their area of operations, saying in a televised address they had targeted three merchant ships as well as US frigates, including one attack in the Indian […]
Houthi terrorists in Yemen have claimed responsibility for six attacks on ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in the last 72 hours, using drones and missiles. They claimed the vessels they […]
Suez Canal Authority Bloomberg is reporting that Yemen’s Houthis will not target Chinese and Russian ships passing through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Citing unnamed sources, the financial newswire says an agreement has […]
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