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Exxon Posted Its Worst Quarter Since 2021 & Still Paid Shareholders $9 Billion, More Than 2x What It Earned. The Oil War Punished Big Oil’s Biggest Names. Are They Setting Up the Next Oil Shock?

Aramco Made $32.5 Billion. The Banks Made $48 Billion. One Tanker Owner Made $559 Million in 90 Days. Who's Paying?

A 10-Year-Old VLCC Just Crossed $100 Million, a Decade High. The Strait of Hormuz Reopened, Then Iran Shut It Again Two Days Later. How Long Can the Record Hold?

Container Lines Still Refuse to Sail the Red Sea. Oil Tankers Just Surged Back Through Suez, Up 28% Year on Year. Why Are They Sailing Into the Danger Everyone Else Fled?

India Just Bought More Russian Oil Than Ever Before. It Is Also Buying Crude From Venezuela and West Africa Now. Every Barrel Is Sailing Farther Than in Years. Who Really Wins?

Half of Russia’s Shadow Fleet Is Now Too Old and Too Uninsured to Trust. Is the Worst Oil Spill Since 1979 Already at Sea?

OPEC Wants to Flood the Market. It Cannot Find Enough Tankers to Do It. Can the Gulf Actually Deliver?

The UAE Just Ended 59 Years in OPEC and Took Much of the World’s Spare Oil Capacity With It. Who Cushions the Next Shock?

Owners Just Ordered Tankers at the Fastest Pace in History, yet Effective Supply Will Grow Just 1% Over Three Years. Where Did the Fleet Go?

Oil Just Crashed Below $75, on Track for Its Worst Week in Months as Hormuz Reopens. Is the Record Tanker Boom Already Unwinding?

A Greek-Owned Supertanker Just Banked $468,900 in a Day on a Gulf Rate One Analyst Calls Imaginary. Can It Possibly Hold?

Elon Musk Didn’t Buy a Shipping Company. He Bought the Nervous System of the Entire Fleet. Almost Every Ship Going Online at Sea Now Runs on Starlink. What Happens the Day He Switches It Off?

China Just Won More Than 90% of the World’s New Supertankers. The Country That Spent a Year Hoarding Oil Now Builds the Ships That Carry It. Is the West Already Too Late to Catch Up?

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Says It Just Closed the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s Own Government Says It’s Open. The US Says 55 Ships Sailed Through. So Is It Open or Not?

Hormuz Reopened. China and India Still Can’t Get Their Oil Out. PetroChina Just Rejected Every Tanker Offer It Got. Who Is the Reopening Actually For?

The US Blockade Crushed Iran’s Oil Exports to a Six-Year Low. Then Trump Signed a Deal at Versailles, and the Tankers Are Already Sailing Again. Who Won?

The IMO Just Cleared the Path for the Autonomous Tanker. Owners Are Ordering 140 New Supertankers to Match. The Next VLCC May Run on a Skeleton Crew. Is the Sailor Obsolete?

China Spent a Year Building a 1.4-Billion-Barrel Oil War Chest. The Iran War Just Proved Why. Now Hormuz Reopens and Beijing Can Reload. Who Really Sets the Oil Price Now?

Britain Just Seized Its First Russian Oil Tanker, in the English Channel. Who's Next?

Trump Just Ordered Hormuz Open and the Blockade Lifted. Is the Tanker Boom Over?

Europe Is Freezing Russia’s Oil Cap at $44 While the Market Pays $87. Is It Still a Cap?

Shipping's First Carbon Price Faces a Make-or-Break Vote in December. The U.S. Wants It Dead.

Pakistan Says the Deal Is Done. Iran Hasn't Signed. The Tankers Are Trapped.

The Blockade Just Disabled Its Eighth Tanker. India Is Furious

Gulf State Oil Companies Are Running Tankers Dark Through Hormuz

A US Fighter Jet Just Disabled the Seventh Tanker to Defy the Iran Blockade. 134 Ships Turned Back When Warned. The Shadow Fleet Keeps Coming. Why?

OPEC+ Just Approved More Oil for July, Its Second Straight Hike. With the Strait of Hormuz Still Shut, Bloomberg Calls It “Symbolic.”

Marine War Underwriters Priced the Strait of Hormuz Off Ship-Tracking Data. The US Military Just Said That Data Is Missing the Ships Going Dark

Shipping Oil Out of the Persian Gulf Now Costs Three Times What It Does From West Africa. The Only Question Left Is Whether It Lasts

MSC, COSCO, HMM and Other Container Giants Are Quietly Building Crude Tanker Fleets. What's the Strategy?

Evangelos Marinakis Used the Industry's Biggest Stage to Argue That Partial Sanctions Are Worse Than None, and That a Transit Fee Beats a Shut Strait.

There Are 3 Ways a Tanker Could Get Cleared Through the Strait of Hormuz Right Now. 1 Is Sanctioned by Washington, 1 Has Not Moved a Ship, and 1 Will Not Lower the Risk That Actually Matters.

A Classification Society Just Approved the Design of a Car Carrier Powered by a Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor. At Posidonia This Week, Nuclear Propulsion Stopped Being a Thought Experiment.

He Was Running a Waste-Management Business 18 Months Ago. Now Vyron Vasileiadis Controls a Tanker Fleet and Orderbook of More Than 30 Ships, and He Just Ordered Four More Supertankers in China.

Greek Owners Just Spent $10 Billion on Ships That Will Not Arrive Until 2028. They Are Betting on the Next Decade, Not This One.

A 79-Year-Old Greek Billionaire Told a Posidonia Stage That No One Can Put a Toll on the Sea and That Greece Has Broken Blockades Since Antiquity. He Is One of the Few Owners Still Sailing Tankers Tow

French Commandos Rappelled Onto a Russian Oil Tanker 400 Miles Off Brittany on May 31. It Was Flying a Flag That Did Not Belong to It, and Moscow Is Calling the Seizure Piracy.

A Greek Shipping Veteran Just Committed $482 Million to Four New Supertankers and Locked In Charters Before a Single Hull Exists. Her Reason Is a Phrase She Keeps Repeating: a New World Order.

A Greek Shipowner Just Raised Her Cash Bid for a US Rival to $24.80 a Share. The Target's Board Will Not Say Yes or No. Everything Now Hangs on One Vote, on June 18.

A Greek Tycoon Just Bet $1.25 Billion On 10 Supertankers. He Has Built And Sold Two Tanker Empires Before. This Time He Picked A Shipyard That Has Never Built One.

The Three Korean Giants That Dominate Global Shipbuilding Just Made A $150 Billion Bet On America. A Law From 1920 Decides Whether It Pays Off.

While Thousands Of Tankers Sit Trapped Off Iran, One Greek Family Just Made $89 Million In A Single Quarter. One Number Explains How They Did It.

Drones Just Hit Three Russian Oil Tankers Off Turkey In One Night. One Of Them Had Already Been Bombed Once Before.

23,000 Sailors From 87 Countries Are Trapped In The Persian Gulf. The US Launched A Naval Operation To Free Them, Then Paused It One Day Later. Here Is What Happened.

Greek Shipowners Just Ordered Nearly Half Of Every New Ship On Earth In 2026. One Man Ordered 12 Supertankers. Here Is Why They Are All Buying At Once.

In 3 Days, 40,000 People Land In Athens For The Most Important Week In Shipping. The Greek Families Who Control 21% Of The World's Fleet. This Is The Power Map Nobody Hands You At The Door.

Everyone Wrote Off Brazilian Shipbuilding After The 2014 Collapse. Petrobras Did Not. $5.1 Billion Committed. 32,000 Workers Hired Back. This Is The Comeback Nobody Saw Coming.

MSC’s Tanker Strategy Is Bigger Than Sinokor. They Have Three More Plays Running In Parallel. Combined Capital: $5 Billion. This Is The Largest Tanker Market Entry In Modern Maritime History.

Morgan Stanley Says The Hormuz Disruption Is The Largest Oil Supply Shock In History. Here Is What That Means For Tanker Rates.

$10.1 Billion In 90 Days. The Greeks Are Cornering The Tanker Market Before Posidonia Even Opens.

A 2 Million Barrel COSCO Supertanker Just Cleared Hormuz And The Gulf Of Oman. Iran Waived The $2 Million Toll The Day Trump Landed In Beijing.

Scorpio Tankers Just Tripled Its Net Income To $216 Million On A Fleet 8 Vessels Smaller Than Last Year. The Q1 Numbers Reveal The New Tanker Reality.

Saudi Aramco’s CEO Just Said The Oil Market Won’t Normalize Until 2027 If Hormuz Stays Closed Past Mid-June. One Billion Barrels Are Already Lost.

Trump Paused Project Freedom The Day After Launching It. Brent Closed At $109.87. Iran’s Foreign Minister Said It Best: “Project Freedom Is Project Deadlock.”

Iran Drones Hit An ADNOC Tanker And A South Korean Ship Caught Fire On Day One Of Project Freedom. Brent Closed Up 6%. Did The War Just Restart?

Trump Ordered The US Military Into The Strait Of Hormuz On Monday. Iran’s Parliament Security Chief Calls It A Ceasefire Violation.

Rubio Just Rejected Iran's Hormuz Deal. Goldman Says Brent Hits $90 In Q4 Anyway.

The Insurance Market Closed The Strait Of Hormuz Before Iran Did. Here Is What VLCC Rates Reveal.

Brent Crude Settled Above 101 Dollars Today. AAA Pump Prices Just Dropped. Here Is Why The Disconnect Matters.

Russia Sent a Missile Frigate to Escort Sanctioned Oil Tankers Past the Royal Navy. Britain Watched. Zero Seizures.

The Blockade Started At 10AM. CENTCOM’s Order Says Something Different.

The Talks Failed. Trump Declared A Blockade.

The Strait Is Mined. The Minesweepers Are Gone.

The Ceasefire Arrived. The Strait Didn’t Open. Then Iran Hit The Pipeline.

Hormuz Is More Than 90% Closed. Iran’s Parliament Speaker Just Threatened to Close the Bab El-Mandeb. If Both Chokepoints Shut, the Only Alternative Route Disappears. There Is No Third Option.

The Oil Market Broke on Thursday. WTI Surpassed Brent for the First Time in 15 Years. Then an F-15E Got Shot Down. Gas Is $4.08. The April 6 Deadline Is Sunday. Nobody Knows What Monday Looks Like.

MSC × Sinokor: 40% of the World's Available Supertankers. $3.3 Billion. Zero Antitrust Investigations. Now It's Official.

Three Oil Chokepoints Are Closing at the Same Time. Combined Risk: 27 Million Barrels Per Day. It Has Never Happened Before.

Russia Sent a Warship-Escorted Oil Tanker Carrying 730,000 Barrels to Cuba. Trump Said “I Have No Problem.” The Kremlin Confirmed Washington Knew in Advance. The Tanker Arrived Today.

Trump Said He Will “Obliterate” Iran’s Oil Wells, Kharg Island, and Every Power Plant in the Country If Hormuz Doesn’t Reopen by April 6. Kharg Island Handles 90% of Iran’s Crude Exports. Seven Days.

Iran Said China Could Pass Through Hormuz. Then Iran’s Military Turned Back China’s Biggest Shipping Company. Nobody Knows Who Controls the Strait.

MSC Invested $3.3 Billion in Sinokor. South Korea Didn't Join Trump's Coalition. Ten Days After, Iran Opened the Strait for Korean Ships. The Tanker Market Has Never Seen This Before.

Asia Is Running Out of Fuel. The Philippines Has 45 Days Left. South Korea Told Its Citizens to Take Shorter Showers. A Russian Tanker Just Arrived in Manila. It Was the First in Five Years.

Russia Is Making $150 Million Extra Per Day From the Iran War. The U.S. Eased Sanctions to Make It Happen. The Money Goes Straight to Ukraine’s Front Line.

Sinokor Cornered the VLCC Market. Now They Just Bought Their First Three Suezmaxes. Brokers Expect an Avalanche.

Goldman Sachs Just Called This “The Largest Supply Shock in the History of the Global Crude Market.” They Have Raised Their Oil Forecast Three Times in 18 Days. The IEA Says This Is Worse Than The 70s

Someone Has Made $2 Billion Selling Oil During a War They Started. 72 Tankers Are Parked Off Malaysia With No Tracking Signal. Satellites Found Them Anyway.

Sinokor Parked 6 Empty Supertankers in the Persian Gulf Before the War Started. Now They’re Earning $500,000 a Day Each. Did They Know?

Trump Threatened to Obliterate Iran’s Power Plants. A Senior Iranian Lawmaker Went on State TV and Bragged About Charging Ships $2 Million to Use Hormuz.

Sinokor Is Charging $20 Per Barrel to Ship Oil. Last Year It Was $2.50. They Control 40% of Available Tankers. Nobody Can Do Anything About It.

Trump Gave Iran 48 Hours to Open Hormuz. Iran Said If He Strikes, They’ll Shut It Forever and Hit Every U.S. Base in the Region. The Clock Expires Monday Night.

Iran Built a Toll Booth on the Strait of Hormuz. The IRGC Is Charging $2 Million Per Ship. Payments Are Accepted in Cash or Crypto. And Five Countries Are Already Negotiating.

A 277-Meter Ghost Ship Loaded with 62,000 Tons of LNG Is Drifting Toward Libya with No Crew, No Power, and No Plan. Europe Is Watching It Happen.

🚨 5,000 Marines, Six Warships, and Zero Escort Plans. The Hormuz Reopening Just Got Closer and Further Away at the Same Time.

20 Nations Just Signed a Joint Statement on Hormuz. Not One Committed a Warship.

Iran Just Knocked Out 17% of Qatar's LNG Export Capacity. Repairs Will Take Up to Five Years.

OFAC Blocks Cuba From Russian Oil — But Two Tankers Are Already En Route. One Is Sanctioned. One Is Running Dark.

MSC Just Bought Half of Sinokor. The World's Biggest Container Line Now Controls a Quarter of the Compliant VLCC Fleet.

Trump Waives the Jones Act for 60 Days. Foreign Tankers Can Now Move Oil Between U.S. Ports — But It Won't Fix What's Actually Broken.