About 65 miles north of Progresso, Mexico, five small islands stand amidst the largest coral structure in the southern Gulf of Mexico. The reef complex is about 17 miles long and about 13 miles wide...

Benjamin Franklin, the nearly quarter-mile-long megaship, is the largest container ship to visit the U.S.  It passed under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco before arriving at the Port of Oakland.  It cleared...

Maritime industry is affected by overcapacity and global competitive businesses.  China has approved another strategic restructuring of two state-owned shipping-related conglomerates, the second such move this month. Sinotrans & CSC Holdings Co. will become a...

The vessel was enroute from Rotterdam to Tanger, Morocco on New Year’s day when a stormy weather hit the container ship 40 nautical miles off Ouessant Island.  One of the men was swept overboard during...

The tug Gauntlet that was pulling the stranded ship Horizon Trader was last located in Mauritius waters.  Horizon Trader owned by US shipping company Matson Inc was sold for primitive shipbreaking at Alang.  The...

The Carnival Ecstasy, a 2,056-passenger cruise ship was the place where the horrendous death of an electrician happened while working on an elevator during the final leg of a three-day cruise.  Sara Robinson and...

Storm Frank's high winds and waves pushed vessels aground, smashed ships against docks and tore cargo from weather decks. Speed read of such incidents: In Marstal Harbor, Denmark, a general cargo vessel went hard aground on...

Danish Police arrested a Cargo ship’s captain, first mate and engineer on New Year’s Day after the blood alcohol tests revealed that they were above the legal alcohol limit for seafarers. The Denmark’s Defence Sea...

A 28-year-old man who had suffered burns in his arms and legs was medevaced by the U.S.  Coast Guards from a container ship 20 miles east of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Saturday. According to the...