The Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation for shipping
The Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation for shipping
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International Shipping News
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Shipping: Emission Possible
22/04/2026
The maritime sector accounts for 3% of the EU’s total CO2 emissions, amounting to 145.2 million tonnes of CO2 in 2024. Under current policies, maritime emissions could represent one-third of all transport emissions in 2050. Between 5-7% of these emissions – or 6.5 million tonnes of CO2 – happen in ports, degrading air quality, worsening climate change and impacting port residents and workers’ health.
EU warns of ’catastrophic’ impact if Hormuz blockade continues
EU warns of ’catastrophic’ impact if Hormuz blockade continues
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International Shipping News
22/04/2026
European Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas said Tuesday the Commission will provide guidance on handling airport slots, anti-tankering, passenger rights and public service obligations in the event of jet fuel shortages due to the Iran war.
Tzitzikostas said there were no shortages “as of today” but warned the consequences of a continued blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would be “catastrophic” for Europe and the world without the return of permanent freedom of navigation.
The Commission will emphasize the bloc must quickly ramp up production of sustainable aviation fuel and synthetic fuels to reduce dependence on Middle East imports, he said in a news conference in Brussels, confirming a report on Friday.
Europe maintains emergency jet fuel stocks, and these reserves can be and will be released only when necessary, Tzitzikostas said. He added that any national jet fuel release shou
Iran Tankers Go Dark to Sail Past US Blockade Laden With Oil
Ships and tankers in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Musandam, Oman, April 18, 2026. REUTERS
Iran Tankers Go Dark to Sail Past US Blockade Laden With Oil
Bloomberg
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April 22, 2026
By Weilun Soon
Apr 22, 2026 (Bloomberg) –At least two fully laden Iranian tankers have sailed out of the Persian Gulf and past a US blockade this week, part of a flotilla that has made its way around the warships and ferried roughly 9 million barrels of oil to the market.
The Hero II and Hedy, two Iran-flagged, very-large crude carriers, are the latest to be captured in satellite imagery, moving past the line identified by the US and into the Arabian Sea on April 20, according to data intelligence firm Vortexa. The pair can together carry as much as 4 million barrels of oil.
The exit of laden tankers demonstrates the limits of US efforts to cordon off Tehran’s crude exports — which President Donald Trump has described as a “tremendous success” — and pressure an otherwise resilient Iranian
Three Vessels Hit by Gunfire in Strait of Hormuz, Crews Safe
The Malta-flagged tanker Agios Fanourios I, an oil tanker that sailed through the Strait of Hormuz, arrives in Iraq’s territorial waters off Basra,Iraq April 17, 2026. REUTERS/Mohammed Aty
Three Vessels Hit by Gunfire in Strait of Hormuz, Crews Safe
Reuters
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April 22, 2026
DUBAI, April 22 (Reuters) – At least three container ships were hit by gunfire in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, maritime security sources and the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said.
Iran has imposed restrictions on ships using the strait, first in retaliation for the U.S.-Israeli bombardment of the country, and then in response to a
U.S. blockade
of Iranian ports.
A Liberia-flagged container ship sustained damage to its bridge after being hit by gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades northeast of Oman.
The UKMTO said the master of the vessel reported being approached by an IRGC gunboat.
Singapore says ships’ transit rights through international straits ‘not negotiable’
Singapore says ships’ transit rights through international straits ‘not negotiable’
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22/04/2026
The right of ships transiting through international straits is “not negotiable,” Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry Gan Kim Yong said, highlighting the importance of navigational freedoms under UNCLOS amid disruptions around the Strait of Hormuz.
Speaking at the Singapore Maritime Week 2026, Gan said April 21 the recent disruption in Hormuz was “not just a regional disruption” but “a systemic shock,” showing how instability at a single maritime choke point can quickly cascade through energy prices, transport costs and supply chains, and how rule-based trading systems come under strain as multilateralism is challenged.
“UNCLOS has specified that ships and aircraft traveling to these straits must have the right transit passage … this is something that we have to recognize and have to preserve, and that’s why we need to continue t
MPA Signs MOU with Hamburg Port Authority and IHLs to Strengthen Maritime Cybersecurity Cooperation
MPA Signs MOU with Hamburg Port Authority and IHLs to Strengthen Maritime Cybersecurity Cooperation
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Port News
22/04/2026
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA), the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), the University of Hamburg (UHH), and the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), to strengthen cooperation in maritime cybersecurity. The MOU follows a letter of intent signed between HPA and MPA in 2024 to strengthen cooperation in digitalisation, decarbonisation, and cyber security.
Under the MOU, the partners will collaborate on the development of technologies to strengthen cyber resilience in port operations. These include port cybersecurity systems, unmanned surface vessels, remote ships operations, shipboard operational technology systems, and ship-shore connectivity.
Trading houses ‘less stressed’ by Middle East crisis due to deeper funding access
Trading houses ‘less stressed’ by Middle East crisis due to deeper funding access
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Oil & Companies News
22/04/2026
Trading houses were better poised to capitalize on the energy price volatility linked to the war in Iran after years of windfall profits, according to leading industry players and institutional investors, who say markets are quickly adjusting to a faster rate of the commodities cycle and black swan events.
When the war in Iran plunged the world into its second energy crisis in the space of five years, the world’s largest commodities traders were in a strong position to embrace market risk, Sebastian Barrack, Head of Commodities at US hedge fund Citadel, told the FT Commodities Global Summit on April 20 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
After the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, and previously the Covid-19 pandemic, the world’s leading private traders – Vitol, Trafigura, Mercuria and Gunvor – achieved record results, booking net profits of around $50 billion combined between 2
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Hormuz Crisis Enters Dangerous New Phase as U.S. Seizes Vessel and Attacks Resume
A view of Iranian-flagged cargo ship M/V Touska as the U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided missile destroyer USS Spruance conducts its interception in a location given as the north Arabian Sea, in this screen capture from a video released April 19, 2026. CENTCOM/Handout via REUTERS
Hormuz Crisis Enters Dangerous New Phase as U.S.
U.S. Extends Russian Oil Wind-Down License Despite Earlier Pledge to Let It Expire
An aerial view shows the oil tanker named Boracay (also called Pushpa), a vessel being investigated by French authorities and suspected of belonging to the so-called “shadow fleet” involved in the Russian oil trade, off the coast of the western France port of Saint-Nazaire, France, October 2, 2025. Extends Russian Oil Wind-Down License Despite Earlier Pledge to Let It Expire
Mike Schuler
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April 20, 2026
The U.S. Treasury Department has quietly extended its
sanctions
wind-down authorization for Russian oil cargoes already at sea, issuing a new general license that allows shipments to continue flowing through mid-May—despite prior signals that the waiver would not be renewed.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on April 17 issued
General License 134B
, authorizing transactions necessary for the delivery and sale of Russian-origin crude oil and petroleum products loaded onto vessels on or before that date.