https://vesselhunter.io/news/maritime-briefing-6-october-2026 Vessel Hunter en 2026-10-07T13:23:57.000Z Black Sea sinkings, Hormuz strikes, Japan names 35 ships maritime briefing, daily shipping news, Black Sea, Strait of Hormuz, sanctions, shipbuilding, offshore, Panama Canal https://vesselhunter.io/news/csg-in-defence-of-free-shipping-warning Vessel Hunter en 2026-10-07T13:23:56.000Z Eighteen Maritime States Warn the Global Shipping Rulebook Is Breaking Down Consultative Shipping Group, freedom of navigation, shadow fleet, UNCLOS, IMO, Strait of Hormuz, chokepoints, regulation https://vesselhunter.io/news/onesubsea-azule-west-hub-tails-umbilicals-angola Vessel Hunter en 2026-10-07T13:23:55.000Z OneSubsea Takes Umbilicals Contract for Azule's West Hub Tails Off Angola OneSubsea, SLB, Azule Energy, Angola, Block 15/06, Agogo FPSO, Ngoma, subsea umbilicals https://vesselhunter.io/news/pacifico-jindo-offshore-wind-1bn-korea-filing Vessel Hunter en 2026-10-07T13:23:54.000Z Pacifico Files a $1bn Investment Declaration for 2.79 GW Off Jindo Pacifico Energy, South Korea, offshore wind, Jindo, Manho, Jindo Baram, Myeong Ryang, investment https://vesselhunter.io/news/bw-ideol-ardersier-floating-wind-factory-feed Vessel Hunter en 2026-10-07T13:23:53.000Z BW Ideol Wins Scottish Funding to Engineer Its Ardersier Floater Factory BW Ideol, Ardersier, floating wind, Damping Pool, Buchan, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, FEED, Scotland https://vesselhunter.io/news/kongsberg-maritime-acquires-steerprop-arctic-propulsion Vessel Hunter en 2026-10-07T13:23:52.000Z Kongsberg Maritime Agrees to Buy Finnish Thruster Maker Steerprop Kongsberg Maritime, Steerprop, azimuth propulsion, icebreakers, Arctic, Finland, thrusters, acquisition https://vesselhunter.io/news/north-korea-commissions-destroyer-kang-kon Vessel Hunter en 2026-10-07T13:23:51.000Z North Korea Commissions the Kang Kon, Second of Its Largest Destroyers North Korea, Kang Kon, Choe Hyon, destroyer, naval shipbuilding, Wonsan, KPN, warships https://vesselhunter.io/news/goldman-rystad-brent-120-hormuz-flows Vessel Hunter en 2026-10-07T13:23:50.000Z Goldman and Rystad See Room for $120 Brent if Hormuz Stays Disrupted oil prices, Brent, Strait of Hormuz, Goldman Sachs, Rystad, Iran, tanker transits, crude https://vesselhunter.io/news/member-states-resist-indian-yards-eu-recycling-list Vessel Hunter en 2026-10-07T13:23:49.000Z Member States Push Back on Adding Two Indian Yards to the EU List ship recycling, EU Ship Recycling Regulation, Alang, European List, NGO Shipbreaking Platform, beaching, Netherlands, European Commission https://vesselhunter.io/news/dutch-frigate-evertsen-replaces-de-ruyter-hormuz Vessel Hunter en 2026-10-07T13:23:48.000Z Dutch Frigate Evertsen Replaces De Ruyter on Hormuz Standby Netherlands, Royal Netherlands Navy, Evertsen, De Ruyter, Willemstad, Strait of Hormuz, mine countermeasures, NATO https://vesselhunter.io/news/mundra-port-record-cargo-and-container-throughput-august Vessel Hunter en 2026-10-07T13:23:47.000Z Mundra Port Sets Cargo and Container Records in August at 18.60 MMT Mundra, Adani Ports, APSEZ, container throughput, rail logistics, India, port records, hinterland https://vesselhunter.io/news/bergfjord-hav-frakt-xanthia-collision-valderhaugfjorden-alesund Vessel Hunter en 2026-10-07T13:23:46.000Z Bergfjord and Hav Frakt detained after three-ship collision off Ålesund collision, Norway, casualty, general cargo, Netherlands, detention, investigation, tanker https://vesselhunter.io/news/lipsi-lr2-hormuz-five-ukmto-incidents-irgc-khasab Vessel Hunter en 2026-10-07T13:23:45.000Z Five Hormuz incidents in one day as the new LR2 tanker Lipsi is left drifting Strait of Hormuz, UKMTO, IRGC, tanker attack, Iran, Oman, CENTCOM, maritime security, war-risk https://vesselhunter.io/news/lila-global-sells-vlcc-vadin-117m-ex-kasagisan Vessel Hunter en 2026-10-07T13:23:44.000Z Lila Global sells 20-year-old VLCC Vadin for $117m, nearly double its price VLCC, sale and purchase, tankers, secondhand, India, freight rates, crude oil https://vesselhunter.io/news/deepsea-mira-shell-trinidad-tobago-caribbean-contract Vessel Hunter en 2026-10-07T13:23:43.000Z Shell books Deepsea Mira for a Trinidad and Tobago campaign from April 2027 offshore drilling, Shell, Caribbean, Northern Ocean, Odfjell Drilling, contracts, deepwater https://vesselhunter.io/news/japan-sanctions-35-shadow-fleet-ships-first-vessel-designations Vessel Hunter en 2026-10-07T13:23:42.000Z Japan sanctions 35 shadow fleet ships in its first vessel designations sanctions, shadow fleet, Japan, Russia, tankers, Oman, false flag, crude oil https://vesselhunter.io/news/akastor-ddw-offshore-sells-skandi-peregrino-anchor-australia Vessel Hunter en 2026-10-07T13:23:41.000Z Akastor sells Skandi Peregrino for $21.6m, leaving DDW Offshore without ships AHTS, offshore support, sale and purchase, divestment, Norway, Australia, consolidation https://vesselhunter.io/news/panama-canal-lotsa-panamax-locks-pilot-2027-dry-season Vessel Hunter en 2026-10-07T13:23:40.000Z Panama Canal opens long-term slot auctions to the Panamax locks for 2027 Panama Canal, transits, chokepoint, drought, Gatun Lake, panama-canal, Panama https://vesselhunter.io/news/alfa-watan-sinks-off-bulgaria-royad-mammadov-black-sea-drones Vessel Hunter en 2026-10-07T13:14:39.139Z Alfa Watan sinks off Bulgaria a day after Royad Mammadov is lost off Romania Black Sea, drone attack, casualty, general cargo, Bulgaria, romania, Ukraine, Russia, grain, seafarer safety