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The Turkish Navy and drone manufacturer Baykar appear to have achieved a notable advance in the use of drones from flat tops during the recent Exercise Sea Wolf 2025, held in the Eastern Mediterranean in mid-May.

On Tuesday, investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board met for the first time with their Mexican counterparts aboard the Mexican Navy sail training ship Cuauhtémoc, which struck the Brooklyn Bridge at six knots on Saturday night.

The European Union moved forward yesterday with what it called “the most wide-sweeping” sanctions package on Russia since the start of the war in Ukraine and targeted the oil and gas industry.

With the ongoing challenges in the offshore wind energy sector impacting the economics and development of sites, the Netherlands, Norway, and Denmark have each announced revised approaches for their upcoming tenders to deal with as the Dutch termed it, the “deteriorating market conditions.”

A shadowy, newly built LPG tanker that has been linked to efforts to fund Iran is potentially going to be sold under a new license issued today, May 20, by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Malaysia Maritime reports an enforcement action that saw an MSC containership detained and its captain and second engineer taken ashore for questioning after the vessel anchored reportedly without permission.

In a surprising reversal, the Trump administration has lifted the stop-work order on New York’s Empire Wind offshore energy project. Norway’s Equinor issued a brief statement reporting that it has been informed by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) that the order was lifted allowing construction activities to resume.

Resolving any ambiguity about whether Yemen's Houthi rebels may have agreed to a shipping ceasefire, the group announced Monday that it will begin targeting shipowners who serve the port of Haifa, effective immediately.

The more recent incident unfolded early Saturday at Puerto Nuevo Channel's N Wharf, where the Marshall Islands-flagged chemical tanker Scot Stuttgart suffered an engine room fire while berthed alongside. The tanker first reported an auxiliary engine fire to the Coast Guard at about 0345 hours. 

Pennsylvania, located in the northeast United States, is extending a novel incentive program it operates rewarding carriers for each container they land in the state’s ports. According to state officials, the decade-old program supports tens of thousands of jobs and spurs economic growth.

Emden Werft and Dock, which has been a provider of repair and conversion services for over 100 years, is set to become Germany’s first maritime recycling facility. According to The Munich Eye, the shipyard located on the Ems River in Western Germany near the border with the Netherlands recently received final government approvals to add a recycling element to its business.

China's "invasion barges" may be even more capable than previously assumed, according to a new analysis published by the Wall Street Journal.

On Saturday evening, a U.S. Coast Guard boat crew shot out the engine of a high-speed smuggling boat off Point Loma after the vessel ignored repeated commands to stop and be boarded. 

Despite the continued attacks by Russian forces, grain exports from the three ports in the Greater Odesa region have now exceeded pre-war levels, report Ukrainian officials. They stated that volumes have continued to grow steadily and are providing a critical portion of the country’s economy.

The first vessel of the new segment of methanol-fueled bulkers was officially delivered in Japan on May 13. Owned by Kambara Kisen and operating under charter to NYK Bulk & Projects Carriers, the vessel was given the fitting name of Green Future.

It has been revealed that the Aliağa Municipality purchased the area where the ship dismantling facilities are located from Emlak Konut for 10.06 billion Turkish Lira, excluding VAT. According to the sales agreement, 26% of the payment will be made upfront, while the remaining amount will be paid in eight installments.

Following the newly-announced pause on the White House's 145 percent tariff on Chinese goods, many American importers are rushing to pay a lesser amount and get their goods into the United States now, avoiding the risk that the levy might go up again in future negotiations with Beijing.

The Kassø e-methanol facility in Aabenraa, Denmark, has been officially inaugurated and is ready to deliver e-methanol to key customers including Maersk. The facility, which was built through a partnership between European Energy and Mitsui & Co., is being billed as the world’s first large-scale commercial e-methanol facility.

Continuing its strategy to pressure Iran, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced the latest round of sanctions. The newest targets are a network of nearly two dozen companies, which the U.S. contents are mostly fronts or in support of Iran’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics to provide funds through the transport and sale of oil products to China. 

The International Transport Intermediaries Club (ITIC) is highlighting how it stepped in to aid one of its customers when a simple oversight racked up large fees. The provider of professional indemnity insurance settled a claim that it acknowledges was a lack of communication that led to a simple oversight.