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Papa Georrrggeeee www.reuters.com/business/ene...

I'm too tired for this

Some good news for a change www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ah, Papa George giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Shadow fleet modus operandi change incoming

The United States military has overseen scores of secretive ship-to-ship oil transfers to keep Gulf energy exports flowing, using aerial and water drones as well as helicopters in an operation to guid...

The head of the union representing India’s seafarers told me mariners on board ships around the Gulf feel like they’re in jail www.instagram.com/reel/DZn7ETL...

14 dead, thousands stranded: Inside the plight of mariners trapped in the Strait of Hormuz www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

My editor wouldn't let me say it's a mass exodus but it's a mass exodus (happy for the sailors who can get some clean clothes soon) www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...

You can go through the strait free, but it takes 2 days, or you can subscribe to Hormuz Plus.

A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.

17-year-old vessel was sold by shipping magnate George Economou’s TMS Group

Three Indian sailors were killed in U.S. strikes on a commercial vessel in the Gulf of Oman Tuesday, according to India’s shipping minister.U.S. Central Command accused the ship of violating the ongoing naval blockade of Iran’s ports and associated vessels, saying in a statement that the engine room of the Palau-flagged M/T Settebello oil tanker was fired on after the crew “repeatedly failed to comply with directions from American forces.”Manoj Yadav, the general secretary of the Forward Seamen’s Union of India, says the deadly incident has frightened thousands of other Indian seafarers, and argues that the U.S. could have fired a missile at a different part of the vessel to warn sailors.

India alone has more than 18,000 sailors stuck across the Persian Gulf region. Some tell CBS News it feels like they're "in jail."

More tankers are transiting the Strait of Hormuz after 111 days of gridlock, but Iran and the U.S. still have much to discuss.

UK forces intercept Russian shadow fleet vessel SMYRTOS (IMO 9389100) in the Channel. Previously avoided getting close to Swedish waters by taking the long route around Bornholm. This news comes after what appears to be movements by the Cameroonian flag, to shed the sketchy vessels from their fleet

Iran will charge ships a convenience charge, sorta like concert ticket sellers charge. Not a toll, but a convenience charge.

British forces this morning boarded a sanctioned shadow fleet oil tanker in the Channel in the latest blow to Russia’s war economy.

Too clever by something way way more than a half. No Hormuz tolls from Iran. But "fees" will be charged. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/w...