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The channel said China had "implemented maritime control and exercised sovereign jurisdiction" on the reef earlier in April.

She is also taking a paid role with Sub Sea Craft Limited, a Portsmouth-based engineering company that produces maritime technology.

Last year, Turkey stepped in to end a feud that threatened to escalate into a regional conflict after landlocked Ethiopia signed a maritime deal with Somaliland to build a port there.

Crowley, the Florida-based maritime operations company which manages the ship, has said salvage teams are preparing to transfer the fuel to another tanker over the weekend before it is towed to Newcastle.

I asked him about the conditions Russia's President Vladimir Putin has attached to the latest small step in the Trump peace initiative, which is a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea.