South Africa is failing to monetize a surge in international shipping traffic across the Cape of Good Hope, even as disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and Red Sea pressure vessels onto longer routes alongside Africa’s southern coast. …
At least three vessels have been focused in hijackings this week off the coast of Somalia in what analysts worry is a replay of previous piracy round the Horn of Africa. The space was the world’s most infamous hotspot for piracy in the early to mid-2000s, with a global naval coalition ultimately subduing the risk…
Giorgia Meloni has welcomed the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and signaled Italy’s readiness to assist safe one of many world’s most crucial oil routes. Speaking after a digital summit with European leaders, she mentioned Rome is ready to deploy naval items, topic to parliamentary approval, to make sure freedom of navigation. The discussions…
A view of the vessels passing via Strait of Hormuz following the two-week non permanent ceasefire reached between the United States and Iran on the situation that the strait be reopened, seen in Oman on April 08, 2026. Shadi JH Alassar | Anadolu | Getty Images Iran on Friday declared the Strait of Hormuz fully…
