Incidents

French offshore services provider Bourbon Offshore confirmed Monday that three crewmembers have been kidnapped one of its crewboats off the coast of Nigeria.

The U.S. National Transporation Safety Board has opened its accident docket in its ongoing investigation into a 2014 collision in the Houston Ship Channel

A nuclear submarine caught fire in a shipyard in Russia's northern province of Arkhangelsk on Tuesday but there were no weapons on board, Russian news agencies

A group of pirates hijacked a product tanker off the coast of Indonesia earlier this month before making off with the ship’s cargo. The hijacking was

The fishing vessel Thunder, a vessel owned by Canela Shipping Ltd, has sunk today offshore Sao Tome in the Gulf of Guinea at position 0? 20′ N, 05?

A fire at a fuel storage facility near Brazil's largest port Santos entered its fourth day on Sunday as 110 firefighters worked to stop the flames from

When I first read of the rescue of the tall ship Liana’s Ransom, I contacted friends in the tall ship community to express my sadness at the loss of

A rise in illegal fishing off Somalia could spark a resurgence in piracy, United Nations and Somali fishing officials have warned, nearly three years after the

Earlier this week pirates hijacked an Iranian fishing vessel in the waters off the coast of Somalia, the AFP has reported. The AFP report, which cited an

A Norwegian product tanker has been refloated from the the coastline of a fjord along the country’s central western coast. The Scan Master ran aground

On Saturday night, a miscommunication between line handlers aboard the containership MSC Ilona and those at terminal 4 in the Port of Baltimore resulted in a

A MSC containership and a bulk carrier have been attacked in two separate but possibly related incidents in Southeast Asia waters off the coast of Indonesia,

The ICC International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Centre has confirmed the hijacking of a product tanker earlier this month off the coast of

The Seychelles Supreme Court has convicted nine Somali nationals of committing acts of piracy who were previously released and paid compensation by Denmark

The 113-foot crewboat GIS Leonce suffered an engine fire this evening forcing the evacuation of the vessel south of Louisiana.  Upon notification of the

In September 1946, the WWII-era U.S. Army Transport ship General M. G. Zalinski sank after running aground some 100 kilometers south of Prince Rupert, Canada

In October 2014, Captain Joshua Bhatt and the crew on board the bulk carrier CS Caprice, a ship owned by the Bahamas-based Campbell Shipping Company Ltd, was

A crewboat damaged in a collision with a liftboat off the Louisiana coast earlier this month has been salvaged and is heading to a shipyard for repairs. On

Vessel Traffic Services Houston-Galveston and the U.S. Coast Guard have confirmed a vessel collision on the Houston Ship Channel at 12:30PM CST on Monday

The anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS) Edison Chouest has arrived today in Port Fourchon after being towed by the AHTS Gulf Champion from Trinidad. An