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Meanwhile, an "unknown projectile" struck a tanker off the coast of Oman, a British maritime agency said on Saturday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

Maritime trade tracking firm Kpler identified the damaged ships as the Energos Winter storage and regasification vessel and the GasLog Salem tanker, saying they had been moved offshore after the incident.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

This reduces its volume by 600 times, requiring significantly less space for its storage and transportation by tanker ships.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

That pickup over the first four months of the war between the U.S. and Iran was almost entirely due to higher energy prices, driven by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz to tanker traffic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Women, almost all of them carrying children, cried as it quickly became clear that the water tanker could transport only a small number of those waiting.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

Iran on Wednesday said it had halted three oil tankers in the strait, through which a fifth of global crude and gas usually pass.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

From there it was loaded onto tankers that headed south, out into the Arabian Sea and off to markets in Asia.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Maritime-data company Windward said Tuesday that it recorded no oil tankers crossing Hormuz on Monday in either direction, with some ships crossing undetected carrying Iranian crude for China.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

Those shipments headed to an area off the coast of Malaysia where tankers from Iran unload oil to vessels that continue onward to China, a sanctions-evasion strategy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Ahmad was a ship captain, had been for thirty years, piloting tankers and ocean liners in every conceivable body of water, and he knew as much as anyone about storms, their trajectories and power.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers