The US has indicated that new business activity with Iran after 8 May within the wind-down period could be result penalties under secondary sanctions, and a number of major shipping companies including MSC and Maersk Tankers have stopped taking...

Shipowners and commodity traders are now digesting the impacts of President Donald Trump’s widely anticipated announcement that the US would pull out of the six nation accord reached with Iran in 2015. The 2015 agreement with Iran- officially the ...

The burning Iranian tanker Sanchi on fire eight days following a collision with a bulker has sank according to Chinese state media.

The US Navy has joined the search for 32 missing from collision between an NITC tanker and a bulker off Shanghai at the weekend.

CMA CGM has restarted its third direct service between Iran and Asia.

The 4,922-teu Iran-flagged containership Touska ran aground on a tiny islet off the southwest coast of main Hong Kong island on Sunday night.

With Qatar ships barred from ports in the Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt, Iran said it would welcome the country’s vessels.

Yang Ming is to offer a direct connection between Far East and Iraq by adding an Umm Qasr call in Iraq at the expense of the Bandar Abbas call in Iran on its China Gulf Express service (CGX).

Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) has reportedly held meetings in London to discuss a possible listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), but talks have proven unfruitful so far. 

Foreign demand for Iranian crude has more than doubled since sanctions against Iran were lifted early last year, according to new data from Vessels Value.