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President Joe Biden signed into law the Ocean Shipping Reform Act (OSRA). The law aims to stop “shipping companies taking advantage of American families, farmers, ranchers and businesses,” the president said.

The US is urging European capitals to ease the impact of their ban on insuring Russian oil cargoes, claiming that this measure could cause global crude prices to skyrocket.

Three seafarers of the containership Simba jumped over the side in the entrance channel at the port of Jacksonville, Florida on June 15, as the U.S. Customs and Border Protection informed. 

The Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio, Chair of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Salud Carbajal, and Congressman John Garamendi applauded House passage of  S. 3580, the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022, considering key steps toward easing current supply chain challenges.

The Secretariat for the Commission for Environmental Cooperation agreed to move forward with the first step in a two-step process to investigate the US’s failure to uphold its environmental laws to protect North Atlantic right whales from deadly vessel strikes and fishing gear entanglements.

An explosion led to a subsequent fire at the Freeport LNG export terminal in Brazoria County, Texas, on June 8.

Iran's supreme leader has confirmed that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) seized two Greek oil tankers as retaliatory measures against the US confiscation of the Iranian crude aboard a tanker detained off Greece.

Iran responded to calls from France and the EU to release the Greek tankers it seized on May 27, with renewed threats against Greek shipping.

The U.S. Department of Justice seized the oil aboard a Russian oil tanker, and it is in the process of transferring the oil to the United States on a chartered tanker. 

The US will support Ukraine with crucial equipment in its war against Russia, as a huge cargo ship at the Belgian port of Antwerp got ready to set sail for Germany.