China seized a Taiwanese fishing boat it says was trespassing in its waters. Taiwan’s Coast Guard rushed its patrol boats to the scene, but stood down to avoid conflict. The incident highlights rising maritime tensions between China and Taiwan. Taiwan is calling for the release of one of its fishing boats and its crew after […]
STORY: :: A timelapse shows the reopening of Baltimore’s main shipping channel this week :: The major transportation artery was blocked after a cargo ship struck the Key Bridge in March :: June 12, 2024 :: Baltimore, Maryland The deadly March 26 collision of the cargo ship Dali into the Francis Scott Key Bridge had […]
ISTANBUL — Turkey will build three vessels for the Royal Malaysian Navy under the latter’s Littoral Mission Ship Batch 2 Project as part of a deal signed by the two nations. This marks the first time Malaysia has signed a government-to-government agreement to procure defense equipment. The countries inked the deal at a ceremony Monday, […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan lodged a protest against Beijing on Friday after four armed Chinese coastguard vessels entered waters that Tokyo considers its territory. The Japanese government said it was the first time that four Chinese vessels carrying what appeared to be cannon entered its territorial waters in the East China Sea surrounding the disputed […]
Ukrainian special forces on Thursday used naval drones to hunt down a Russian tugboat near Crimea. Kyiv in recent weeks has been forced to go after smaller Russian vessels in the Black Sea. Moscow has pulled back its larger warships to reduce their vulnerability to attacks. Ukraine is using its arsenal of exploding naval drones […]
All of the vessels that were trapped in the Port of Baltimore when the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed have now left their berths. The last ship in that group departed Monday morning, hours before a planned explosion that will cut apart a section of steel truss draped across the bow of the Dali, officials […]
All of the vessels that were trapped in the Port of Baltimore when the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed have now left their berths. The last ship in that group departed Monday morning, hours before a planned explosion that will cut apart a section of steel truss draped across the bow of the Dali, officials […]
Chinese coast guard ships fired water cannons at two Philippine patrol vessels on Tuesday near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, causing minor damage to one vessel, in the latest flareup in an increasingly tense territorial conflict. There were no immediate reports of injuries in the incident off Scarborough Shoal, one of two […]
QatarEnergy has signed an agreement with China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) to construct 18 ultra-modern QC-Max size LNG vessels, marking a significant addition to the company’s LNG fleet expansion programme. On Monday, the Chinese state-owned conglomerate signed a contract in Beijing with QatarEnergy for 18 superheavy LNG tankers. Qatar’s Energy Minister, Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, said: […]
The Philippines said the China Coast Guard used water cannon on two of its vessels on Tuesday, causing damage to one of them, during a patrol near a reef off the Southeast Asian country. Manila and Beijing have a long history of territorial disputes in the South China Sea, with several collisions involving Philippine and […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s coast guard said on Tuesday it “expelled” a Philippine coast guard ship and another vessel from waters adjacent to the Scarborough Shoal, Chinese state media reported. The coast guard did not provide additional information in a statement, but the incident was the latest to occur between the two countries at the […]
After several endangered North Atlantic right whales have washed up on beaches this year, including one in Virginia Beach, researchers at UC Santa Barbara have released a real-time analysis map to assess speeding of ocean-going vessels. Douglas McCauley, director of the Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory at UCSB, said collisions with ships are one of the […]