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		<title>NOAA Advances Deep Sea Minerals Application in Latest U.S. Seabed Mining Move</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Schuler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Deep Sea Minerals Corp. says it has cleared an important regulatory hurdle in its effort to explore for critical minerals on the Pacific seabed after receiving a &#8220;substantial compliance&#8221; determination...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Alternative-Fuel Ship Orders Slow as Owners Hedge Fuel Bets</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Schuler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Orders for alternative-fuelled vessels continued in May but remain well below last year&#8217;s pace, highlighting a more cautious and diversified approach to decarbonization investments across the global shipping industry. According...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Coast Guard Unveils New Digital Mariner Credentialing Platform Amid Massive Backlog</title>
		<link>https://gcaptain.com/coast-guard-unveils-new-digital-mariner-credentialing-platform-amid-massive-backlog/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Schuler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Coast Guard is preparing to launch a new digital credentialing platform aimed at overhauling how mariners apply for and receive Merchant Mariner Credentials (MMCs), marking the agency&#8217;s latest...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trafigura Warns World’s Largest Energy Crisis Is Far From Over</title>
		<link>https://gcaptain.com/trafigura-warns-worlds-largest-energy-crisis-is-far-from-over/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Schuler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Commodity trading giant Trafigura says the conflict in the Middle East has already removed more than 1.1 billion barrels of oil from global markets and warned that even a near-term...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Satellite Images Show Suspected Structure at Disputed South China Sea Atoll, But Later Gone</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Reuters]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[MANILA, June 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Satellite images obtained by Reuters confirmed the presence of a structure at the entrance of the hotly disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea last week, though...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>More Oil Escapes Hormuz, Keeping Traders Guessing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Reuters]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The trickle of tankers exiting the Strait of Hormuz has gathered pace in recent weeks, as traders adopt stealth measures to make the crossing. While this is freeing some of the vast oil inventories trapped in the Gulf, it does not signal a slow return to normalcy. Instead, it previews the opaque, fragmented energy market the Iran war is set to leave in its wake.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Royal Navy Deploys New Mine-Hunting Drone as 15-Nation Hormuz Coalition Takes Shape</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Schuler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Royal Navy has deployed a new underwater mine disposal system aboard RFA Lyme Bay as Britain and France finalize plans for a multinational operation to clear naval mines from...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Taiwan Beefs up Anti-Ship Missile Arsenal to Counter Threat of Chinese Invasion</title>
		<link>https://gcaptain.com/taiwan-beefs-up-anti-ship-missile-arsenal-to-counter-threat-of-chinese-invasion/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Reuters]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Taiwan will sharply increase its arsenal of powerful anti-ship missiles to more than 1,800 by early 2029, as it seeks to enhance its capacity to counter a mounting threat of blockade or invasion by China, according to a Reuters calculation.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>UK and France Finalize Postwar Hormuz Mine-Clearing Mission</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bloomberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The UK and France have finalized plans to lead a multinational mine-clearing mission in the Strait of Hormuz within days of an agreement between the US and Iran to reopen the waterway, according to people familiar with the matter. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Delfin Approves $5 Billion Floating LNG Export Project Off Louisiana Coast</title>
		<link>https://gcaptain.com/delfin-approves-5-billion-floating-lng-export-project-off-louisiana-coast/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Schuler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Backed by BlackRock&#8217;s GIP, MOL and Vitol, the Louisiana offshore project would become America&#8217;s first floating LNG export facility and the world&#8217;s largest FLNG development. Delfin Midstream has reached a...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>VIKING Pentagon Star provides rapid escape route from the water in disaster scenarios  </title>
		<link>https://gcaptain.com/viking-pentagon-star-provides-rapid-escape-route-from-the-water-in-disaster-scenarios/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[gCaptain]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[VIKING Life-Saving Equipment has secured its first orders for VIKING Pentagon Star &#8211; a new mass rescue device designed to enable rapid recovery of large numbers of people from the...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>EU Weighs Expanding Aspides Mission to Lead Hormuz Mine-Clearing Effort</title>
		<link>https://gcaptain.com/eu-weighs-expanding-aspides-mission-to-lead-hormuz-mine-clearing-effort/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Reuters]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The European Union has proposed that the bloc's Aspides naval mission take "the primary role" in clearing mines in the Strait of Hormuz "when conditions allow" as part of a Franco-British-led initiative, according to a document seen by Reuters.]]></description>
		
		
		
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