TAG: Ports
Middle East crisis: Houthis hit cargo ship with missile off Yemen
A container ship sailing through Yemeni waters was struck Monday by a rocket launched by Houthi figh...
8 months ago
Northern Europe’s new naval priority: Submarine sabotage
HANKO, Finland — Finnish and British troops undertaking a routine naval training exercise on a recen...
8 months ago
How Houthi rebels are threatening global trade nexus on Red Sea
The U.S. is mustering an international armada to deter Iranian-backed Houthi militias from Yemen fro...
8 months ago
Yemen: West ignored our warnings about Houthis to court Iran for nuclear deal
BRUSSELS — The U.S. and EU were so determined to court Iran for a nuclear deal over recent years tha...
8 months ago
Europe’s new energy risk: Trading Russia for America
On cloudy days, from his house John Beard can see the fireballs lighting up the dark sky, flares from the distant fossil fuel plants where he once made his living as a technician.The fiery discharge of excess gas is a constant reminder of the industry tha...
6 months ago
Labour slashes green spending pledge in major U-turn
LONDON — Keir Starmer's Labour Party U-turned on its green investment plans after months of speculation.The party on Thursday ditched its totemic pledge to spend £28 billion a year on green policies — slashing those spending plans by nearly 75 percent.In...
6 months ago
EU finally ready to bring down Russia’s gas empire … sort of
For the first time since Moscow launched its full-scale attack on Ukraine more than two years ago, the EU is expected to aim its sanction bazooka at Russia’s lucrative gas sector.But the proposals on the table would only touch a fraction of the billions M...
5 months ago
Starmer’s ‘quiet’ climate radicalism sets up battle with Farage
LONDON — Early last year, U.K. Labour leader Keir Starmer’s top green lieutenant traveled to Berlin. He was there to take notes on a German government full of climate vim. Starmer’s man Ed Miliband — then in opposition, now the U.K. energy secretary — enc...
2 months ago
Labour’s top policy priorities
LONDON — Keir Starmer has arrived in Downing Street with his new Cabinet. So what are their first priorities?Big-ticket items include decarbonizing the electricity grid by 2030, building 1.5 million homes over five years, hitting long-missed health servic...
2 months ago
Starmer government rejects calls to ditch deal with firm linked to Russian gas
LONDON — Keir Starmer’s new Labour government has dismissed calls from Ukrainian campaigners to ditch a controversial public sector gas contract with a French fossil fuel giant that still trades in Russian gas. Campaign group Razom We Stand this week said...
2 months ago
Cypriot firm accused of profiting from EU potash sanctions against Belarus
Belarusian journalists have found that a Cypriot company linked with a former top aide to Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is profiting through inflated contracts related to new export routes of the fertilizer ingredient potash, which were set up as...
2 months ago
Keir Starmer channels his inner Boris Johnson
LONDON — Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson were the bitterest rivals. Yet it turns out they have one thing in common: a love for windmills bobbing in the ocean.Back in 2020, Johnson, then U.K. prime minister, conjured a patriotic vision of a green post-pande...
3 weeks ago
Czech crisis manager set to become EU’s top global dealmaker
BRUSSELS — If there’s one experience both Ursula von der Leyen and Jozef Síkela have in common, it’s being thrown in the deep end.In her first three years as European Commission president starting in 2019, von der Leyen steered the EU through a pandemic a...
3 weeks ago