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Royal Navy Deploys New Mine-Hunting Drone as 15-Nation Hormuz Coalition Takes Shape...
posted on: Jun 8, 2026
The Royal Navy has deployed a new underwater mine disposal system aboard RFA Lyme Bay as Britain and France finalize plans for a multinational operation to clear naval mines from the Strait of Hormuz once a political agreement allows commercial traffic to resume. The move offers one of the clearest signs yet that Western military planners are preparing for what many in the shipping industry increasingly see as the biggest obstacle to reopening the strategic waterway: naval mines. According to Bloomberg, Britain and France have completed preparations for a coalition mission involving up to 15 countries that would begin mine-clearance operations shortly after the United States and Iran reach an agreement restoring freedom of navigation through the strait. The Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel RFA Lyme Bay departed Gibraltar last month carrying advanced autonomous mine-hunting systems and more than 100 specialist Royal Navy personnel. Among them is the Royal Navy’s Diving Threat and Exploitation Group, which recently completed accelerated...
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posted on: Jun 8, 2026
নন-ইমিগ্র্যান্ট ভিসা আবেদনকারীদের জন্য অনলাইন উপস্থিতি পর্যালোচনার পরিধি আরও বিস্তৃত করার ঘোষণা দিয়েছে ঢাকাস্থ মার্কিন দূতাবাস। আবেদনকারীদের সব সামাজিক যোগাযোগমাধ্যম প্রোফাইলের প্রাইভেসি সেটিংস ‘পাবলিক’ (উন্মুক্ত) করার নির্দেশনা দিয়েছে দূতাবাসটি। শুক্রবার (৫ জুন) সব অনভিবাসী ভিসা প্রার্থীদের উদ্দেশে এই বার্তা দিয়েছে ঢাকাস্থ মার্কিন দূতাবাস। বার্তায় বলা হয়েছে, ২০২৬ সালের ৩০ মার্চ থেকে এ-৩, সি-৩ (গৃহকর্মী হলে), জি-৫, এইচ-৩ এবং তাদের নির্ভরশীল এইচ-৪, কে-১, কে-২, কে-৩, কিউ, আর-১, আর-২, এস, টি এবং ইউ ভিসার জন্য আবেদনকারী সব অনভিবাসী ভিসা প্রার্থীকে তাদের সব সামাজিক যোগাযোগমাধ্যম প্রোফাইলের প্রাইভেসি সেটিংস ‘পাবলিক’ বা উন্মুক্ত করার নির্দেশ দেওয়া হচ্ছে। যুক্তরাষ্ট্রে প্রবেশের যোগ্যতা ও পরিচয় যাচাইয়ের জন্য প্রয়োজনীয় প্রক্রিয়া সহজ করতে এই নির্দেশনা দেওয়া হয়েছে বলেও উল্লেখ করা হয়েছে বার্তায়। বিবৃতিতে বলা হয়, ভিসা প্রদান প্রক্রিয়ায় যুক্তরাষ্ট্র সর্বোচ্চ সতর্কতা অবলম্বন করে যাতে আবেদনকারীরা দেশটির আইন, নিরাপত্তা এবং জাতীয় স্বার্থের পরিপন্থি কোনও উদ্দেশ্য নিয়ে প্রবেশ না করেন। একইসঙ্গে আবেদনকারীদের বিশ্বাসযোগ্যভাবে প্রমাণ করতে হবে যে তারা তাদের ভিসার শর্ত...
Peak Season and Hormuz Crisis Fuel New Surge in Container Shipping Rates...
posted on: Jun 7, 2026
Container freight rates are rising sharply across major east-west trades as the conflict in the Middle East, disruption at key Asian transshipment hubs, and growing fears of an energy crisis combine to tighten supply chains and fuel a new wave of market volatility. According to the latest market update from Xeneta, average spot rates from the Far East to the U.S. West Coast climbed 20% over the past week to $3,933 per FEU, more than doubling since the onset of the Middle East crisis on February 28. Rates on the trade are now 109% higher than pre-conflict levels. The surge extends well beyond routes directly affected by the Strait of Hormuz crisis. Far East-to-U.S. East Coast rates have risen 92% since late February to $5,103 per FEU, while rates from the Far East to North Europe and the Mediterranean have increased 65% and 51%, respectively. Peter Sand, Xeneta’s chief analyst, said the latest...
Swedish Court Approves Seizure of Cargo Ship for Ukraine...
posted on: Jun 7, 2026
A Swedish court has agreed with prosecutors that a cargo ship accused of stealing grain from the occupied regions of Ukraine can be seized in response to a request from Ukraine. The decision is being hailed by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General as the first time an international court has agreed to its requests to hold ships accountable for sanctions violations. Swedish prosecutors had moved to seize the general cargo ship Caffa (4,337 dwt) on April 29 in response to the request from Ukraine. Prosecutors reported they were going to let the court examine whether the vessel could be handed over to Ukraine under Swedish law. The court in Sweden’s Ystad District ruled that the ship can be legally seized and handed over to Ukraine based on the request that came from Ukraine. Media reports indicate that the court said after reviewing the circumstances, it found that the charges would be considered a...
Sanctioned shadow fleet oil tankers threaten environmental disaster, FT reports...
posted on: Jun 7, 2026
More than half the world’s sanctioned oil vessels run the risk of causing serious environmental harm, the Financial Times (FT) reported on May 31, citing leading ship recycler Anil Sharma. Russia and other oil producers under sanctions operate a so-called shadow fleet of aging, often underinsured tankers to bypass international trade restrictions. Western officials have also raised concerns that Moscow’s vessels may be linked to broader Russian hybrid activities in Europe, including espionage and drone operations. “Minimum one-third (should be scrapped), maybe more,” Sharma, chief executive of GMS Leadership, said of the shadow fleet vessels in comments to the FT. “I would honestly think it is more than half.” Sharma warned that “luck was running out” to avoid a major ship-source oil spill on the scale of the 1979 crash between supertankers SS Atlantic Empress and Aegean Captain. That collision caused massive fires and explosions, claimed 27 lives, and dumped 287,000 metric tons of crude oil...
Pakistan Deploys New Hangor AIP Submarine Near Indian Waters as Colombo Emerges in Intensifying Indian Ocean Naval Rivalry...
posted on: Jun 7, 2026
(DEFENCE SECURITY ASIA) — The arrival of a Pakistan Navy task group led by the newly commissioned AIP-equipped submarine PNS/M Hangor in Colombo has intensified strategic scrutiny across the Indian Ocean Region because the deployment places advanced Pakistani undersea warfare assets less than 130 nautical miles from Indian territorial waters. The deployment combines Pakistan’s newest Hangor-class submarine, the Chinese-built Type 054A/P stealth frigate PNS Taimur, and the F-22P guided-missile frigate PNS Aslat into a coordinated naval presence designed to demonstrate operational reach, fleet integration, and maritime signalling capability across critical sea lanes. The appearance of PNS/M Hangor in Sri Lanka only weeks after its commissioning in Sanya on April 30 represents an unusually rapid operational deployment cycle that signals Pakistan Navy confidence in the platform’s combat readiness, logistics sustainability, and crew integration procedures. The port call also reflects the accelerating strategic convergence between Pakistan and China in the maritime...
Container newbuild stranded since 2008 crisis finally delivered...
posted on: Jun 7, 2026
A containership whose construction was abandoned in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis has finally entered commercial service, marking the revival of one of Turkish shipbuilding’s longest-running unfinished projects. According to Alphaliner, the 917 teu Behram Box has been delivered and chartered to Shipping Solutions, a DP World business formerly known as Unifeeder, ending a journey that began around 20 years ago when the vessel was first ordered from Turkey’s Um Shipyard. The ship is the first of two sister vessels that spent more than a decade sitting incomplete at the yard after construction stalled during the global financial crisis. Both hulls remained largely dormant from 2012 until last year before investors decided to revive the project amid strong demand for feeder tonnage and a tight charter market. The vessel was subsequently towed from Gölcük to Tuzla, where construction was completed. A second sistership, Numan Box, is expected to follow shortly....
U.S. Looks to Unblock Hormuz With Quiet Version of Project Freedom...
posted on: Jun 6, 2026
(Bloomberg) — A month after President Donald Trump announced — and then abandoned — a plan to escort commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz, the US military is trying less public ways of protecting vessels in the vital waterway. Rather than announcing an open challenge against Iran, the US is quietly coordinating with shippers willing to take a different approach. Evidence gleaned from US Central Command statements, shipping data and people with knowledge of the transits suggest ships are turning off transponders and sticking close to the Omani coast on the strait’s south to avoid Iranian mines, with the US military assisting if needed. The latest evidence came Tuesday night amid a flareup between the US and Iran. Central Command issued a statement saying its forces shot down Iranian attack drones aimed at “civilian mariners that were rightfully transiting regional waters.” US forces also conducted “self-defense strikes” on an Iranian military...
The fourth skills revolution at sea
posted on: Jun 6, 2026
Has shipping ever asked more of its seafarers? The latest from our brand new shipmanagement magazine being distributed across Athens this week. From alternative fuels and AI-assisted systems to cyber risk and emissions reporting, today’s seafarers are being asked to master an unprecedented breadth of new competencies – all at the same time. Industry leaders are unanimous that the pace and scale of this transition is unlike anything that has come before. The question is whether the industry can respond fast enough. Ajay Chaudhry, co-CEO of shipmanagement at Synergy Marine Group, has lived through enough industry cycles to know when something is genuinely different. “The industry has never asked seafarers to absorb so much change at the same time,” he says. The list of previous transitions is long – containerisation, ECDIS, double-hull tankers, fuel transition, ballast-water treatment, scrubbers. But what is happening now, he argues, is categorically different in...
Lessons learned: Systems that rely on tired people are unsafe...
posted on: Jun 6, 2026
CHIRP Maritime draws lessons learned from a fatigue-related report highlighting the ongoing impact of tiredness across the maritime sector. The initial report Drawing on the reporter’s narrative and other fatigue submissions, CHIRP presents this combined safety perspective to illustrate a broader systemic safety concern. The consistency of reports received by CHIRP suggests these are not isolated concerns, but recurring indicators of wider industry pressure. This report includes the actual SHIELD taxonomy (Safety Human Incident and Error Learning Database) to provide some more context Fatigue remains one of the most persistent and under-reported risks in maritime operations. It rarely stems from a single long shift or an isolated, difficult week. More often, it develops gradually through sustained exposure to demanding schedules, insufficient recovery time, staffing pressures, and a culture in which ‘coping’ becomes the norm. CHIRP continues to hear from personnel working patterns that involve repeated night shifts, disrupted sleep,...
‘The day after disruption’: major Greek owners warn on what comes next...
posted on: Jun 6, 2026
Major Greek shipowners are increasingly focused on what comes after what they describe as the “most disruptive period” in the history of the shipping industry “What I am most concerned about is the day after, and what kind of changes we’re going to see in the overall pattern of transportation,” Danaos Corp chairman, president and chief executive Dr John Coustas told the Capital Link Maritime Leaders Summit held during Posidonia week. “We are moving into a different multipolar world, with a dramatic effect on trade. Countries have changed the way they allocate and source energy; everything is different,” Dr Coustas added. “We need to be very careful,” StealthGas, Imperial Petroleum and C3is Inc founder Harry Vafias said. Mr Vafias said that while shipping predictions used to be relatively straightforward – driven mainly by cycles, asset prices and market fundamentals – everything over the past three years has become “extremely...
Russia Tells France to Free Tanker Captain It Says Was Detained on False Charges...
posted on: Jun 5, 2026
MOSCOW, June 3 (Reuters) – Russia is demanding that France release the captain of a tanker detained in France on what it says are false charges, the Russian embassy in Paris saidon Wednesday. France’s navy said on Monday it had intercepted a sanctioned tanker, the Tagor, linked to the Russian oil trade in the Atlantic Ocean. Paris ordered it to head to the French mainland, in a move Moscow said was illegal and amounted to “international piracy.” The Russian embassy said that French authorities had informed Moscow that the vessel’s captain, a Russian national, had been detained on what it described as “trumped-up” charges. “The Embassy has once again contacted the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, demanding immediate consular access to the Russian citizen and his prompt release,” the embassy said in a statement. Russia has relied on old vessels, known in the West as the “shadow fleet,” to ship its oil and gas in the face of Western...
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