U.S. seizes Venezuelan oil tanker
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Oil tankers are some of the most economically important naval vessels operating today, and they've been around for a long time. The first oil tanker was the Zoroaster, which was built all the way back in 1878. Since then, oil tankers have grown in both ...
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 coast of occupied Crimea. Both vessels were constructed for ...
The U.S. government carried out its seizure of the M/T Skipper off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday just as a judge-signed warrant was set to expire, according to the document which was unsealed on Friday.