The daily rates for chartering a vessel to transport commodities have surged this year, with oil tanker rates skyrocketing by 467%, as shippers of a growing commodity supply are grappling with a series of route disruptions and sanctions.   Despite the typically weaker commodity demand period toward the end of each year, the last weeks of 2025 don’t show any weakness in the vessel rates for transporting crude oil, LNG, iron ore, or wheat.   The unusual strength at the end of the year has seen oil tanker rates on the key…

The daily rates for chartering a vessel to transport commodities have surged this year, with oil tanker rates skyrocketing by 467%, as shippers of a growing commodity supply are grappling with a series of route disruptions and sanctions.   Despite the typically weaker commodity demand period toward the end of each year, the last weeks of 2025 don’t show any weakness in the vessel rates for transporting crude oil, LNG, iron ore, or wheat.   The unusual strength at the end of the year has seen oil tanker rates on the key…

Crude oil exports from the Russian terminals on the Black Sea were much lower in November than originally planned as bad weather and Ukrainian attacks on infrastructure have delayed loadings and departures, Reuters reported on Thursday, quoting sources in the industry. Both the port of Novorossiysk and the CPC terminal loading most of Kazakhstan’s crude have been hit by drone attacks in recent weeks, with damaged infrastructure delaying loadings of the Russian grades Urals and Siberian Light, as well as Kazakhstan Export Blend Crude…

The daily rates for chartering a vessel to transport commodities have surged this year, with oil tanker rates skyrocketing by 467%, as shippers of a growing commodity supply are grappling with a series of route disruptions and sanctions.   Despite the typically weaker commodity demand period toward the end of each year, the last weeks of 2025 don’t show any weakness in the vessel rates for transporting crude oil, LNG, iron ore, or wheat.   The unusual strength at the end of the year has seen oil tanker rates on the key…

4 de diciembre de 2025.- 259 migrantes venezolanos pisaron de nuevo su tierra natal tras ser repatriados desde México Con la firme convicción de acoger a sus hijos e hijas, el Gobierno Bolivariano, a través de la Gran Misión Vuelta a la Patria (GMVP), vivió este jueves, un momento de profunda e...

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Argentina’s state-run energy firm YPF expects to take together with its foreign partners the final investment decision for the $20-billion Argentina LNG project in the middle of 2026, YPF’s chief executive Horacio Marin told Reuters on Thursday. YPF, Italy’s Eni, and XRG, the new energy investment company of Abu Dhabi’s national oil firm ADNOC, are developing the Argentina LNG (ARGLNG) project. Argentina LNG will be an integrated upstream and midstream gas development project designed to develop the resources of the huge…

4 de diciembre de 2025.- Como respuesta a la convocatoria del presidente Nicolás Maduro, se ha hecho un llamado a toda la Clase Trabajadora para involucrarse en las reuniones de trabajadores, con el objetivo de crear espacios políticos que faciliten la participación y el debate de la Constituy...

"Hemos recuperado el Lago de Guanoco en el estado Sucre, con capital, tecnología propia, y ya está al mil por ciento, el lago de asfalto más grande del mundo y he apartado el 25 % para entregárselo a las Comunas del país y al Plan Petare Guanoco, asfalto total", anunció el presidente...

Ukrainian negotiators were set to meet with European officials in Brussels, and later US officials in Florida, days after a five-hour Kremlin meeting with a visiting White House delegation where President Vladimir Putin doubled down on his hard-line conditions to end the war on Ukraine. Ahead of the December 4 meetings, Putin repeated longstanding and unbending demands on Ukraine’s sovereignty and military force in an interview with India Today. "It all comes down to this: Either we liberate these territories by force or Ukrainian troops…

As concerns mount about looming heating and electricity shortages in Kyrgyzstan this winter, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have pledged to help Bishkek avert a crisis. Fears about shortages stem from extremely low water levels in the Toktogul reservoir, a major source of hydropower in Central Asia, as well as for water used by downstream states for irrigation during the summer.  Top-level government officials from all three states signed an agreement in late November in Almaty, under which Kyrgyzstan agreed to minimize…

La orden del juez Leonard P. Stark de la Corte de Distrito de Delaware, para cerrar la subasta y autorizar la venta de la matriz de CITGO Petroleum Corporation a la empresa Amber Energy por la suma de 5.900 millones de dólares, ha expuesto el debate sobre la parcialidad de EEUU sobre el derech...

Edison will launch next year renewable power projects worth more than $700 million (600 million euros) that will add over 500 megawatts to its renewables capacity in Italy, the Italian energy group said on Thursday.  The Italian firm, part of France’s EDF Group, currently has another 250 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy projects under construction.  The new construction will launch in 2026 and, according to estimates, will employ a total of around 1,000 workers and 200 supplier companies. The new projects, most of which would…

El Gobierno de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela expresó su agradecimiento a la contundente posición de la República Popular China ante las amenazas de Estados Unidos (EE. UU.) contra la soberanía territorial, independencia y autodeterminación de los venezolanos y venezolanas, establecidas...

La Cumbre Popular del BRICS subraya la necesidad de consolidar una nueva arquitectura financiera para el Sur Global, con la creación de un sistema de compensación que permita a los países del bloque negociar en sus monedas locales, reduciendo la dependencia del dólar estadounidense. ...

Cada vez son más los senadores republicanos que exigien respuestas concretas sobre el responsable en el Pentágono, que ordenó un presunto ataque de seguimiento, para matar a los sobrevivientes de un ataque con misiles, realizado por militares de Estados Unidos (EEUU) a lanchas en el Caribe, qu...

Líderes interreligiosos, comunitarios y devotos de Nueva York realizaron este miércoles una vigilia en la ciudad de Brooklyn contra las agresiones del Gobierno de Donald Trump a Venezuela. La vigilia buscó abogar por la paz y señalaron que coincide con la época de adviento, que para los cristi...

Vår Energi confirmed on Thursday an oil discovery very close to its Goliat field in the Barents Sea, the first operating Arctic oilfield offshore Norway.Vår Energi, the top independent producer offshore Norway, encountered oil at the Goliat North exploration well, five kilometers (3 miles) north of the Goliat field. The discovery boosts the overall gross discovered resources at the so-called Goliat Ridge and could be tied back to the nearby Goliat floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit.  Vår Energi and its…

En horas de la mañana se prevé sobre el territorio nacional cielo parcialmente nublado al alternar con nubosidad fragmentada en algunas zonas. Asimismo, no se descartan áreas con nubosidad del tipo estratiforme acompañadas de

Grupos de amistad y solidaridad con Venezuela en España denunciaron hoy la escalada militarista y agresiva de Estados Unidos, al tiempo que reiteraron su apoyo al Gobierno de Nicolás Maduro. Bajo el enunciado América Latina Zona de Paz, el Movimiento de Solidaridad con Venezuela en ...