Hurd's bank

[1] In December 2016 Hurd's Bank was seen as a waypoint for those involved in the "slow-burning civil war of Libya" to profit from the sale of Libyan government-subsidized fuel obtained in the Port of Zwara.

[8] According to an observer, upwards of 400,000 tonnes of Russian petroleum distillates are reported to have been transferred via ship-to-ship (STS) operations over the period from January to June 2019.

[8] In June 2020 Xinhuanet showed a people smuggling vessel in Hurd's Bank, to depict the fact that the Maltese government had closed its ports due to the COVID-19 hysteria.

[11] In May 2022 Finance minister Clyde Caruana said that the government would claim 900 square kilometres at Hurd's bank as part of its EEZ and government announced its intention to issue "concessions to private companies for the production of offshore wind energy, the production and storage of hydrogen, fish farms and the establishment of artificial islands.

[2] A June 2024 study showed Hurd's bank to be the probable location of ship-to-ship transfers of Russian-origin oil.