An external explosive device most likely caused the blast that damaged Greek oil tanker Vilamoura as it was sailing off the Libyan coast last week, the vessel's Greece-based operator TMS Tankers said ...

The oil tanker Vilamoura, carrying 1 million barrels of oil, exploded off the coast of Libya. The vessel called at Russian ...

At least four oil tankers have been involved in explosions since early 2025 that investigators believe were caused by limpet mines.

The accident, which the United Arab Emirates said was unrelated to the conflict between Israel and Iran, occurred amid ...

The Emirati national guard says it has evacuated 24 people from an oil tanker after a collision between two ships just east of the world’s most critical oil chokepoint, the Strait of Hormuz.

The Kenya National Highways Authority has announced traffic disruption along the Nairobi Southern Bypass (Kikuyu-bound) ...

An oil tanker then known as the Suez Rajan, which is now called the St. Nikolas and sails under the Marshall Islands flag, is seen in Japan's Tokyo Bay in an Oct. 4, 2020, file photo.

While global energy markets are not yet pricing in worst-case scenarios for the Israel-Iran war, oil tanker rates are providing a good real-time gauge of the escalating risks.

By comparison, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker that ran aground off Alaska in 1989 — causing one of the worst environmental disasters in the nation’s history — was toting 37,000 tons of crude.

Warnings from the oil tanker industry that too few of the ships are being built are haunting the market after Houthi attacks on shipping caused widespread diversions in petroleum trades.

On the night of Dec. 15, 2024, two Russian oil tankers, Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239, sank in the Kerch Strait, a narrow maritime connection between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, off the ...

The oil-tanker market is heating up, a development some analysts say is a warning flare that signals further price declines for crude. The Baltic Dirty Tanker Index, which tracks the rates to hire ...