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Libyan air force bombed a Greek oil tanker off the Lybian coast on Sunday, injuring some of its crew members and damaging a large part of the vessel, said a national army source. A Libyan air force fighter jet attacked...

A Ghanaian military spokesman reported on Sunday that a Greek oil tanker that disappeared in the Gulf of Guinea is likely to have moved from Ghanaian to Togolese waters. "The vessel is not in our waters," Eric Aggrey-Quashie told Agence France Presse....

The Angolan navy denied the hijacking of the Greek oil tanker, Kerala, on January 18, reporting that the owner company had faked the pirate attack. Greece-based Dynacom, owners of the Liberian-flagged tanker MT Kerala said they had contacted its crew who reported...

Pirates hijacked a Greek-owned oil tanker off Togo on Tuesday in the second attack in less than two weeks in the Gulf of Guinea, the International Maritime Bureau said. The Isle of Man-flagged vessel, which had 24 crew on board...

Pirates attacked a Greek-owned oil tanker off Nigeria Friday, but were unsuccessful in their attempts to hijack the ship after the crew hid in a safe room, the International Maritime Bureau reported. The tanker was anchored off Lagos when armed...

The Greek managers of a cargo ship captured by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean nearly ten months ago say the vessel and its crew have been released. Paradise Navigation SA said the Liberian-flagged MT Polar oil products tanker was...

Pirates released a Greek-operated oil tanker seized off Togo on Tuesday after stealing 3,000 metric tons of fuel, an official at the ship's operator said on Thursday. The seizure of the ship, which is operated by Golden Energy Management, underscored...

Somali pirates have seized an oil tanker carrying about $200m worth of crude oil off the coast of Oman, the vessel's Greek operator has said. The Athens-based shipping company Enesel said on Wednesday that the Mount Irene oil tanker was...

The Willow oil drilling project in Alaska has been given the green light by the administration of Joe Biden, a move which has been met with vigorous opposition from environmentalists and native community organizations in Alaska. The project is an...

An oil spill originating from Syria's largest refinery has proliferated across the Mediterranean Sea and is inching towards Cyprus' Karpas peninsula. The treacherous oil slick, which is nearly the size of New York City, has seeped across international waters...

An oil spill from a Syrian power plant, containing anywhere from two to four tons of oil, is now threatening the entire coastline of Cyprus and Israel. Cypriot authorities stated that the slick is expected to reach the north part...

An explosion from a floating mine has caused damage to an oil tanker which is managed by a Greek concern, in the Red Sea off Shuqaiq, Saudi Arabia. The mine, thought to be related to the ongoing hostilities in Yemen, damaged...

The European Products Carriers Ltd, the company that owns a vessel that fell victim of piracy in November off the coast of Togo in Africa, announced on Friday that three members of its crew have now been released. The crew...

Pirates have kidnapped the nineteen crew members of a crude oil tanker off Nigeria, according to an official from the ship's Greek operator. According to Greek shipping company "Navios Tankers Management," eighteen of the kidnapped men are Indian nationals and...

Brazilian authorities have accused ensnaring U.S. asphalt maker Sargeant Marine, six Greek shipping companies and a former Brazilian congressman in a wide-ranging graft probe. Brazilian authorities said they were investigating allegations that Greek shipping companies paid bribes to obtain contracts from...