By Nuzulack Dausen DAR ES SALAAM, Sept 20 (Reuters) – At least 42 people drowned when a ferry sank on Thursday in Tanzania’s Lake Victoria and

The U.S. Navy, in partnership with the Army and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, have started the recovery of oil from the overturned World War II German

The UK’s leading port operator, Associated British Ports (ABP), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to create one of Europe’s first detailed

By Kyunghee Park, Daniela Wei and Matt Townsend (Bloomberg) — The race is on to get Chinese goods into the U.S. before President Donald Trump’s tariffs

By James Gomez and Kateryna Choursina (Bloomberg) — Gleaming silos, towering container cranes and hulking cargo ships docked at quaysides in Europe’s

Several tugs helped wrangle an Oceania Cruises cruise ship with more than 500 people on board after it broke free from its moorings in Scotland. The incident

By Lucas Jackson and Elizabeth Culliford Sept 20 (Reuters) – A loud rumble jolted climate scientist David Holland just before he went to sleep

By Farah Master HONG KONG, Sept 20 (Reuters) – Eight beluga whales jump in unison out of a bright blue indoor pool, flipping their tailfins and spewing

In today’s episode of The REAL gCaptain Podcast we take a harsh look at the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA), a federal college that

The U.S. Navy has awarded contracts for another three Littoral Combat Ships, bringing the total number of vessels ordered so far to 32. The new awards were

A product tanker was attacked by a group of armed pirates on Monday while at an anchorage off the coast of Guinea in West Africa.  The IMB Piracy

The U.S. government’s $9.8 billion polar icebreaker program is facing risks across multiple key areas which still need to be address before resources are

Danish shipping giant Maersk has announced plans to integrate its Damco Supply Chain Services unit and Maersk Line’s Ocean Product service, which will be

By Shadia Nasralla and Gwladys Fouche STAVANGER, Norway, Sept 19 (Reuters) – When the owners of Norwegian oil firm Aker BP decided to digitise its

Most of today’s Captains are reluctant to allow mobile phones on the bridge of their ships because they tend to pull the eyes of watchstanders away from

In 2007, gCaptain launched the first world’s first maritime news podcast, and since that day, gCaptain founder John Konrad has recorded over 200

The investigation into the sinking of American cargo ship El Faro was one of the most complicated maritime investigations ever undertaken by the National

By Lydia Mulvany and Sheela Tobben (Bloomberg) — The Port of Wilmington in North Carolina remains shut in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence,

By Scott DiSavino and Sabina Zawadzki NEW YORK/LONDON, Sept 18 (Reuters) – China set a 10 percent tariff on U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG)

Seadrill Partners announced it has secured a one-well contract with ExxonMobil for its semi-submersible West Aquarius off the east coast of Canada. Backlog for