Irish authorities came up with a novel solution for what to do with a vessel long abandoned by smugglers which had become a burden. Seized a decade ago for smuggling, the vessel was used to create the country’s first artificial reef. The MV Shingle had infamously...
Small registries grow at record pace as flag-hopping tankers play regulatory game of ‘whack-a-mole’ | US retailers ‘extremely’ worried as...
For years the world has largely ignored an insidious pollutant humanity has been carelessly throwing into the ocean: light. Newly hatched turtles can be sent off course by the glow of nearby beachfront restaurants, taking them away from the sea and to their deaths. Scientists have shown that...
With less than two weeks to go before the strike deadline at US east and Gulf coast ports, the two...
After an uptick in Russian military activity in the North Pacific and Bering Sea, the U.S. Army has dispatched mobile rocket launchers and about 130 troops to the Aleutian Islands in order to display its ability to mobilize forces to far-flung sites. The deployment is...
Two of the Japanese engine manufacturers at the heart of a data falsification scandal dating back to 1999 have been...
New research by Lloyd's Register confirms a phenomenon that confounds merchant mariners: alarm fatigue. LR examined comprehensive data on bridge and engine room alarms, and the class society found that over the past two decades, the frequency of bridge alarms while on open ocean transits...
There are just two weeks to go before a major US port strike, and the two sides are not even...
Australian authorities have arrested three men in connection with a plot to import US$270 million worth of liquid methamphetamine, the latest in a string of major container-smuggling busts for the world's most active and lucrative meth market. The investigation began when Canada's Border Services Agency...
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