US forces chase sanctioned tanker near Venezuela
Fresh US action comes a day after another VLCC was seized in the same region
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December 2025
Carnival’s market value gains by nearly $4bn in a day after record earnings and return to dividends
Shareholder payout is the first since the pandemic shut down cruises
US Coast Guard seizes second VLCC in Venezuelan crude trade
Kpler says the VLCC Centuries was not sanctioned, but it carried sanctioned oil
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Tankers: 2025 Marks a Rebound of West African Crude Oil Exports
West African crude oil exports reversed a negative multiyear trend this year. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Banchero Costa said that “after a modest upturn in 2024, when global crude oil loadings increased by +0.8% y-o-y, trade started very s…
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Liberia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Panama Continue to Move Forward with the International Flag-State Association
The International Flag-State Association (IFA), an association of the world’s three largest registries, Liberia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Panama, has been meeting since 2021. IFA is the first alliance of its kind and wa…