[ad_1] Just over a week after resuming operations in the Central Mediterranean, the migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking has declared a "state of emergency" onboard due to a spate of attempted suicides. Ocean Viking took aboard 180 maritime migrants in a series of rescues from June...
[ad_1] A cargo vessel was the latest target of pirates in the waters off Benin. This attack came just one day after reports of an even more brazen attack on a vessel in the oil fields in the Gulf of Guinea. In the latest incident, security...
[ad_1] David Loy Stewart Sr, 72, of Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, the former owner and chairman of Detyens Shipyards, passed away on Tuesday, June 30. Loy was born September 15, 1947 in Abbeville, South Carolina. He graduated from Furman University with a Bachelor of Arts degree...
[ad_1] [By Dr Mark J. Valencia] On June 26, the leaders of the ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) held their 36th annual summit by video conference. The pandemic was the main topic of discussions. Also high on the agenda was the South China Sea conundrum....
[ad_1] The livestock carrier Al Messilah has been delayed at the port of East London, South Africa due to a legal dispute over whether she may load a cargo of South African sheep. The South African National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to...
[ad_1] In the middle of the ongoing pandemic, ferry company Stena Line has confirmed that the construction of their two new larger E-Flexer ferries has begun in Weihai, China. The vessels were ordered in 2018 and the delivery is expected in 2022. Stena Line has...
[ad_1] The recent developments in Ladakh on the disputed border between India and China were shocking and tragic. The clash in Galwan Valley last week has opened up a deep fissure in India–China ties, spawning tensions that could even escalate into an all-out-war. The latest...
[ad_1] Six-time Guiness World Record holder and Marine Corps veteran Angela Madsen died this week during a solo attempt to row from California to Hawaii. Madsen, 60, had hoped to become the first paraplegic and oldest woman ever to complete this three- to four-month feat. According...
[ad_1] The destroyer USS Preble has returned to Pearl Harbor after a successful surge deployment for counternarcotics operations in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. In March, Preble and her crew departed Hawaii to participate in the long-running hunt for smuggling boats in the U.S. Southern Command...
[ad_1] [Brief] Five South Korean nationals and one Ghanaian were kidnapped from a fishing vessel off the port of Cotonou, Benin, according to officials in South Korea. The vessel - identified as the Panofi Frontier - was attacked and boarded Thursday afternoon at a position about...
