Prosecutors in Virginia have charged four men for their respective roles in a conspiracy to sell phony Coast Guard merchant mariner credentials in Norfolk as part of a scheme that allegedly netted them more than $200,000, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia announced Monday. Lamont Godfrey, 42, of Portsmouth, Eugene Johnson, 45, […]
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Oil Producers Shut-In as Hurricane Zeta Barrels Toward Gulf Coast
By Erwin Seba HOUSTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) – Oil producers on Monday shut offshore production and pulled workers off platforms in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico as the 27th named storm of the season strengthened into a hurricane and took aim at the U.S. Gulf Coast. BP, Chevron and Equinor ASA evacuated platforms and halted […]
Container Lines Expect U.S. Import Boom to Lose Steam
By Jonathan Saul and Lisa Baertlein LONDON/LOS ANGELES, Oct 26 (Reuters) – Surging shipments into the United States are fueling record high freight costs and logjams at seaports, but transportation executives say the rally will lose steam with a second wave of COVID-19 restrictions on the cards. Container shipping companies, which move goods for customers […]
U.S. Issues Fresh Sanctions Targeting Iranian Oil
WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) – The United States on Monday imposed fresh Iran-related sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic’s oil sector, including the Iranian Ministry of Petroleum, in Washington’s latest move to increase pressure on Tehran. The U.S. Treasury Department in a statement said it was slapping sanctions on key actors in Iran’s oil sector for […]
Delaware’s Mystery Oil Spill: Clean-Up Crews Recover 55 Tons of Oiled Debris
Clean-up crews have recovered approximately 55 tons of oiled debris from beaches in Delaware one week after mysterious oil patties began washing up along a 10-mile stretch of shoreline, the U.S. Coast Guard reported today. The clean-up operation is continuing Monday under the management of the unified command consisting of the U.S. Coast Guard and […]
