[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...
[ad_1] A Cypriot-flagged bulker named the Bluebill collided with a railway bridge over the Chagres River in the Panama Canal. Dramatic video of the accident and its aftermath shows significant damage to the bridge used by the Panama Railway to reach the Gamboa community and...
[ad_1] During a recent A/C chiller evaluation it was found that an incorrect type of refrigerant had been added after a leak repair. In other words, the chiller had a mixture of two different types of refrigerants (the correct type and an incorrect type). This error...
[ad_1] “Remember that deeds not words will get the ships through.” That was the message from Christopher J. Wiernicki, ABS Chairman, President and CEO as the Distinguished Industry Speaker for 210 graduating cadets at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy’s first semi-virtual graduation ceremony, which was closed to the...
[ad_1] [By Cmdr. Michael Kaplan] While USS Kidd (DDG 100) was deployed to the U.S. Fourth Fleet Area of Responsibility, a Sailor began experiencing COVID-19 symptoms April 20, a month after the ship’s last port call. In the weeks preceding this first positive case onboard, the crew...
[ad_1] Over the course of four days and four interdictions at the end of May, the destroyer USS Lassen and the LCS USS Detroit intercepted a combined 112 bales of suspected contraband worth over $79.6 million. While on patrol May 24 and May 26, Lassen and...
[ad_1] Despite American sanctions on both nations, Iran appears to have dispatched another merchant ship to Venezuela. Based on AIS data, the Iranian-flagged freighter Golsan departed Iran in mid-May and is currently under way off Barbados, headed in the direction of Venezuelan shores. Maritime data consultancy...
