Cyprus Transport Minister Demetriades: Shipping the ‘steam engine of world economy’ Transport Minister Marios Demetriades, while addressing the International Maritime Forum, in Batumi, Georgia on...

Last year shipbuilders around the globe received orders for 50 million dwt/tonnes, just shy of the total of 51 million achieved in the heady...

Watch a documentary about the world's biggest ship-recycling yard at Alang, India, where life is becoming harder as fewer ships arrive. Disclaimer: This...

China on Tuesday morning initiated emergency response measures for the approaching Typhoon Meranti. Local authorities in the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian,Guangdong, Hainan as...

"It only took nine hours for Meranti to grow into a super typhoon from a typhoon," Guangdong meteorologist Zhang Dong told...

Summary The vessel was safely moored alongside at the port of Pago Pago, discharging its cargo of containers. The second mate was the duty officer...

Safety exercise ends up in disaster killing a crew member Safety drill on the Harmony of the Seas Kills a crew injures four others. ...

Bulker Aground in Lake Superior In 1845, Royal Navy officer Sir John Franklin set out with two ships—the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus—and a...

Foreign shipping lines are increasing their transpacific routes after Korea’s largest shipper, Hanjin Shipping, filed for court receivership last month. Strategies Maersk The world’s largest shipper, Maersk...

A Japanese company has developed a special barnacle-busting paint that dramatically affects a ship's performance at sea.  When barnacles, green mussels, and other organisms...