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Suez Canal Chief Expects Traffic Recovery to Start by End-March
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February 10, 2025
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Suez Canal Chief Expects Traffic Recovery to Start by End-March

Suez Canal Authority chief Osama Rabie said he expects traffic through the Egyptian waterway to gradually return to normal by late March and fully recover by mid-year, as long as the Gaza ceasefire holds up.
Parts Of Russia’s Sakhalin On High Alert After Cargo Ship Runs Aground
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February 9, 2025
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Parts Of Russia’s Sakhalin On High Alert After Cargo Ship Runs Aground

Feb 9 (Reuters) – A district in Russia’s Sakhalin region has been put on high alert after a Chinese cargo ship ran aground off the southwest coast of the Sakhalin Island, the governor of...
Trump Unleashes Chaos At NOAA, US Weather And Climate Agency
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February 9, 2025
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Trump Unleashes Chaos At NOAA, US Weather And Climate Agency

By Lauren Rosenthal and Brian K Sullivan Feb 8, 2025 (Bloomberg) –The email arrived in US government workers’ inboxes just after 1 a.m. East Coast time on Friday, with the subject...
Dorange Becomes Youngest Sailor To Complete Vendee Globe
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February 9, 2025
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Dorange Becomes Youngest Sailor To Complete Vendee Globe

Feb 9 (Reuters) – At 23-years-old, Violette Dorange became the youngest sailor to finish the after completing the gruelling solo round-the-world yacht race on Sunday. Dorange completed the race in 25th place...
Baltic States Switch To European Power Grid, Ending Russia Ties
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February 9, 2025
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Baltic States Switch To European Power Grid, Ending Russia Ties

By Andrius Sytas and Janis Laizans VILNIUS, Feb 9 (Reuters) – The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania completed a switch from Russia’s electricity grid to the EU’s system on Sunday, severing Soviet-era...
Russia’s Rostelecom Says Baltic Sea Cable Damaged
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February 8, 2025
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Russia’s Rostelecom Says Baltic Sea Cable Damaged

By Bloomberg News Feb 8, 2025 (Bloomberg) –A Russian underwater cable in the Baltic Sea has been damaged by an unspecified external impact, Tass reported on Saturday, citing the telecommunications provider...
First LNG Carrier in Five Months Passes through Bab-el-Mandeb Strait as Houthi Threat Eases
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February 8, 2025
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First LNG Carrier in Five Months Passes through Bab-el-Mandeb Strait as Houthi Threat Eases

Liquid natural gas producers have been avoiding the Red Sea for much of 2024 amid continuous attacks by Houthi militants. This may now be changing as the first LNG carrier...
Coast Guard Finds Wreckage Of Missing Alaska Plane; All 10 On Board Killed
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February 8, 2025
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Coast Guard Finds Wreckage Of Missing Alaska Plane; All 10 On Board Killed

By Rich McKay and Brad Brooks Feb 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska found the wreckage of a small plane atop frozen sea ice on Friday, after the aircraft suddenly lost...
US Aircarft Carrier Leaves Red Sea as Houthis Pause Attacks
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February 7, 2025
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US Aircarft Carrier Leaves Red Sea as Houthis Pause Attacks

A US aircraft carrier strike group left the Red Sea for Europe weeks after Yemen’s Houthi rebel group said it will stop attacking vessels in the region.
Trump’s First Iran Sanctions Hit Three Ships in China Trade
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February 7, 2025
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Trump’s First Iran Sanctions Hit Three Ships in China Trade

President Donald Trump’s maiden sanctions package targeting a handful of vessels carrying Iranian oil stopped short of the “maximum pressure” campaign his administration had pledged, according to shippers and analysts.
China’s Retaliatory Tariffs on Crude Likely to Push US Exports Lower in 2025
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February 6, 2025
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China’s Retaliatory Tariffs on Crude Likely to Push US Exports Lower in 2025

China's retaliatory tariffs on the United States may cause U.S. oil exports to decline in 2025 for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, after growth plateaued last year.
Maersk Sees Global Container Market Growth Despite Trade War
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February 6, 2025
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Maersk Sees Global Container Market Growth Despite Trade War

A. P. Moller-Maersk A/S, a bellwether for world trade, forecast growth in the global container market as it sees consumer demand defying an intensifying trade war.