Crooked Bough News Round-up

+ Great Lakes Ports and Shipyards Formalize Partnership on U.S. Shipbuilding—he American Great Lakes Ports Association (AGLPA) and the Great Lakes ...

+ Up to 70 Ships Queue Off Danube as Bottlenecks Slow Ukraine Grain Exports—Up to 70 vessels are waiting near the Danube's Sulina Canal for access...

+ Panama Canal Chief: ‘Every Drop of Water Counts’ as Prolonged El Niño Looms—The Administrator of the Panama Canal is warning that the upcoming El ...

+ Iran, Oman Agree to Share Strait of Hormuz Revenue—Iran’s military said it reached a revenue-sharing agreement with Oman ...

+ Höegh Autoliners Orders Six More Aurora Class Car Carriers—Höegh Autoliners is expanding its Aurora class newbuilding program wit...

+ Panama Canal Chief: Surge in Unreserved Ships Is Fueling Record Auction Prices—Key supply and demand data show the market pressures fueling the recor...

+ Japan Energy Plan Seeks to Back Pipelines Bypassing Hormuz—Japan plans to support the construction of pipelines that bypass the S...

+ Iran and Oman Plan for Temporary Hormuz Corridor as Impasse With US Persists—Iran has held new talks with neighboring Oman on management of the Str...

+ Panama Canal Auction Hits New Record at $5.3 Million—By Ruth Liao, Lucia Kassai and Nicholas Lua (Bloomberg) A shipper nee...

+ Iran Vows to Resist Widened U.S. Sanctions, Says Washington Seeks Talks—Iran pledged to fight back against expanded U.S. sanctions aimed at is...

+ Turkey Braces For Potential Gas Squeeze as U.S. Targets Iran Trade—Turkey, a key US ally and Iran’s third-largest trading partner, is at ...

+ SpaceX to Build $100 Billion Spaceport on Louisiana Gulf Coast—SpaceX plans to invest $100 billion in a massive new launch facility o...

+ In-depth Suezmax study makes CAPEX case for T-BOSS® sterntubeless shaftline system—An in-depth evaluation study based on reference data from a Suezmax cr...

+ Iran and Oman Unveil Framework for Future Management of Strait of Hormuz—Iran and Oman have unveiled a framework for restoring safe navigation ...

+ IMO Sounds Alarm as Somali Pirates Hold More Than 90 Seafarers—The International Maritime Organization is calling for urgent action a...

+ Trump Says U.S. Navy Has Cleared All Mines From Strait of Hormuz—President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that the U.S. Navy has cleared...

+ Malacca Strait States Will Keep Waters ‘Free, Open and Safe’—Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore — countries that share the primary s...

+ Commodity Vessel Transits Through Strait of Hormuz Hit Three-Month Low, Data Shows—Just two tankers transited the key energy chokepoint of the Strait of ...

+ Iran Blacklists 46 Ships On Hormuz ‘Non-Compliant’ List—Iran has published a list of 46 vessels it says violated its arrangeme...

+ U.S. Threatens Iran’s Trading Partners in New Economic Pressure Campaign—Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened economic punishment agains...

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+ Almost half of global oil flows from war zones—Almost half the worlds oil comes from countries affected by conflict i...

+ US sanctions on Iran: China’s scramble for oil may add to India’s crude, freight costs—The Treasurys latest action expands the sectors exposed to US secondar...

+ Japan to proceed with oil shipping aid, restore national crude reserves to 90 days of net imports—A high-level policy meeting at Japans Ministry of Economy, Trade and I...

+ Venezuelan revival and sweet crude expansion reshape LatAm flows—The Latin American crude supply landscape is undergoing a structural e...

+ Dangote refinery drives increase in petroleum shipments from Nigeria—Seaborne petroleum product exports from Nigeria have grown seven-fold ...

+ Russia set for fifth seaborne gasoline cargo, first from Turkey—Russia is set to receive its fifth confirmed seaborne gasoline deliver...

+ China boosts grain buying with minimum price programs to support farmers and market—Chinas summer grain purchases have entered their peak period, with gra...

+ Govt to buy LNG cargo at $23.93 per MMBtu from Aramco—The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase has approved the purchase...

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+ Fed may need to raise rates soon without inflation decline, Collins says—The Federal Reserve may need to raise interest rates soon if upcoming ...

+ ECB set to raise rates in September amid Iran war concerns—European Central Bank policymakers plan to increase interest rates at ...

+ US Consumer Spending Eases Less Than Expected—US personal spending increased by $36.3 billion, or 0.2%, in July 2026...

+ Trump vows tariff retaliation in escalating trade dispute with Canada—US President Donald Trump said the US will hit Canada with 50% tariffs...

+ China vows to protect Iran ties after US sanctions threat—China’s government said Tuesday it will take all necessary measures to...

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+ IMF chief says global economy weathered Iran war shock well—The International Monetary Fund said today that the world economy has ...

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