Dead Whale Found on Bow of Cruise Ship Entering Alaska Port

A veterinary pathologist worked Monday to determine what killed a juvenile fin whale discovered on the bow of a cruise ship entering an Alaska port. The cause of death was not immediately apparent for the...

Floods Cause 12 Barges to Break Free

Floods Cause 12 Barges to Break Free, Coast Guard Briefly Closes Houston Ship Channel Flood levels and record setting water current coming from the San Jacinto River caused a closure of the Houston Ship Channel...

Coast Guard Closes a River after Oil Spill

Coast Guard Closes Neches River after Oil Spill The Coast Guard Captain of the Port closed a section of the Neches River Saturday, after a pipeline at the Jefferson Energy Terminal released an estimated 880...

Wedding Grounded as Ship Runs Aground

Wedding Aboard Boat Interrupted when Ship Runs Aground in Boston Harbor The Majesty, a Boston Harbor Cruises vessel, reportedly ran aground off Georges Island in Boston Harbor thereby interrupting a wedding reception aboard the ship...

[Watch] How Two Guys Escaped the Scuttling of the ‘Vis’

A Cruise Ship on fire After long struggle to get all necessary permissions, ex-Yugoslav Navy command ship VIS of 662 tons displacement was finally scuttled for recreational diving purposes off Polje cove near Cape...

Sophisticated Fraud Carried Out on the High Seas!

In Agcs Marine Ins. Co. v. World Fuel Services, Inc., the Southern District of New York was faced with an insurance dispute from a fraud carried out on the high seas.  The defendants, World...

Wärtsilä Donates an Engine to Texas A&M University

 Wärtsilä’s Makes a Noble Gesture by Donating Engine to Texas A&M University at Galveston Wärtsilä has given an 8-chamber Wärtsilä 20 motor and generating set, to the Marine Engineering Technology Department at Texas A&M University...

St. Lucia Implements Open Ship Registry

The Saint Lucia Air and Seaports Authority (SLASPA) after a thorough review of the Shipping Amendment Act is pleased to announce that Saint Lucia has taken the decision to implement an Open Ship Registry. An...

Time Running Short to Save Viking Ship in Geneva

People have been trying for decades to save the replica Viking ship that sailed to Chicago for the 1893 World's Fair. And while there has been some progress on shoring up the Viking and preserving...

Oil Spill Pollutes Waters Off Penang

 Oil Spill Pollutes Waters of Penang and Investigations Underway  On May 27, an oil spill from unknown source has polluted nearly a 5 km coastline, stretching from Swettenham Pier to Gurney Drive, in waters off...