LoginPirates Kidnap Chinese Crewmembers From Fishing Vessel off Gabon
On Monday, armed pirates boarded a trawler off the coast of Gabon and kidnapped multiple foreign crewmembers, according to the Gabonese ministry of d...
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Former U.S. Navy Sailor Gets 16-Year Sentence for $12,000 Worth of Spying
A former U.S. Navy sailor who was paid a mere $12,000 over an 18-month period for spying for China has been sentenced to more than 16 years in prison...
Wrecked Crab Boat Spills Diesel off St. George
The rough winter weather of the Bering Sea is getting in the way of the response to the wreck site of a crab fishing boat that grounded on the coast...
Birdon Awarded US Coast Guard Contract for Response Boat–Small Demonstrator
Birdon America, Inc. has been awarded a firm fixed price contract to build a Response Boat-Small (RB-S) Demonstrator for the United States Coast Guard...
RINA & HPC “Promoting Green Ports & Connectivity in Caspian Region" Project
RINA, a global consulting engineering, inspection and certification group, and HPC Hamburg Port Consulting (HPC), a leading consultancy for ports, ter...
Ukraine's Special Forces Hit Three Russian Oil Platforms in the Caspian
On Sunday, Ukraine's military reported another round of long-range strikes on Russian oil platforms in the Caspian Sea, the latest in a series of atta...
Hapag’s Terminal Operator Takes Full Ownership of Port Everglades Facility
Hapag-Lloyd’s Hanseatic Global Terminals is continuing to execute on its growth strategy, with reports that it has taken full ownership of Port Evergl...
HMM and HD KSOE Start Demonstration and Testing of Wing Sail on Tanker
South Korea’s HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering and HMM are starting a demonstration and test period for Korea’s first domestically develop...
Op-Ed: China's Shipping Sector Would Thrive Under IMO Carbon Rules
[By Mao Xiaoli]Later this year, member states of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) will resume negotiations on whether to adopt an agreed...
Baltimore’s Sparrows Point Container Terminal Receives Key Permits
Plans to develop a new container terminal as part of the redevelopment of the Sparrow’s Point region of Baltimore marked key steps with the US Army C...
Revolution Wind Receives Court Injunction Against Trump’s Stop-Work Order
The Revolution Wind offshore wind farm won a preliminary injunction against the Department of the Interior’s December stop-work order, which permits t...
Trump Could Add 25 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods to Get Leverage on Iran
On Monday afternoon, President Donald Trump announced that the White House will impose a 25 percent tariff on all countries that transact with the Is...
U.S. Coast Guard Rescues Surfer Who Survived 30 Hours on Rocks Offshore
On Friday, the U.S. Coast Guard rescued a surfer who went adrift and wound up on the rocks on an isolated shore, beating the odds of survival. On Thur...
Manslaughter Trial Begins for Captain of Solong Involved in Fiery Collision
The Russian master of the containership Solong was scheduled to begin his trial for the 2025 collision in which the vessel, while on his watch, rammed...
Spanish Operation “White Tide” Makes Largest Cocaine Seizure at Sea
Spain’s National Police are reporting its largest ever cocaine seizure at sea, completed last week near the Canary Islands. While calling it a histori...
Finland Releases Ship Suspected of Cable Damage as Investigation Proceeds
The Finnish Border Guard, midday on Monday, January 12, escorted the cargo ship Fitburg out to sea after nearly two weeks of detention. The police rep...
Report: India Wants to Ramp Up its Warship Exports
India is reportedly working to expand warship exports as part of the ongoing push to revamp its shipbuilding industry. The Ministry of Defense (MOD)...
Venezuela Tanker Seizures Have Set a New Precedent, and More May Follow
The U.S. government has seized five shadow fleet tankers to date in its campaign to control Venezuela's energy exports, and it plans to market the se...
Union Condemns Pace of Investigation Into P&O Ferries' 2022 Ferry Layoffs
A trade union in the United Kingdom is reawakening the ghosts of the 2022 unilateral sacking of about 800 seafarers by P&O Ferries after condemning a...
Rough Weather is Putting the Irish Coast Guard to the Test
Ireland is recording an increase in the number of marine incidents in its vast coastline, and this reality is testing the resilience and capability o...
