Freight (Cargo)

• Trump’s Tanker Crackdown Paralyzes Venezuelan Oil Exports - Oil exports, the country’s financial lifeblood, have plummeted after the United States took action against three ships that have been used to carry its crude.
• U.S. Coast Guard Is Pursuing an Oil Tanker Linked to Venezuela - U.S. forces had boarded a different tanker on Saturday. The actions signaled a crackdown on such vessels.
• Tankers Under Sanction Are Only a Subset of Fleet Moving Venezuelan Oil - The scope of President Trump’s blockade against ships carrying oil from Venezuela was not clear on Wednesday.
• Oil Tanker U.S. Seized Off Venezuela Has Faked Its Location Before, Data Shows - The ship has frequently carried oil from countries under U.S. sanctions, and its tracking data shows multiple recent trips to Iran and Venezuela.
• Eugene Hasenfus, Gunrunner Who Exposed Iran-Contra Plot, Dies at 84 - He emerged out of obscurity when his cargo plane was shot down while illegally ferrying arms to Nicaraguan rebels, setting off a scandal that tarnished the Reagan and Bush White Houses.