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One person has died and two others are missing after a tanker caught fire in Hong Kong waters off Lamma Island. The fire on board the Vietnamese-flagged Aulac

By Admiral Thad Allen, U.S. Coast Guard (Retired) – Today, with the government shutdown in its third week, it is beyond troubling that Coast Guard men

The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday is continuing to coordinate the response to a container fire on board the now abandoned Yantian Express located approximately

An unknown quantity of bunker fuel was spilled at the Port of Hong Kong on Sunday during bunkering operations on a Maersk ship at berth, A.P. Moller Maersk

By Andrew Mayeda, Kasia Klimasinska and Jenny Leonard (Bloomberg) — The Trump administration expressed optimism it can reach a “reasonable”

LONDON, Jan 7 (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Labour Party on Monday criticized the government for awarding a 14 million pound ($18 million)

At least two people are dead and four others were missing after a Panamanian-flagged bulk carrier sank in the Black Sea off Turkey’s coast on Monday. The

WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Sunday it has killed a militant in Yemen believed to be one of the planners of a deadly bombing

The crew of the containership Yantian Express has been evacuated as the container fire continues to burn on board the ship in the North Atlantica, Hapag-Lloyd

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Pope Francis urged European leaders on Sunday to stop bickering over the fate of 49 migrants

The u-shaped cleanup system that was deployed to the Pacific Garbage patch last fall is headed back to port for repairs due to a “structural

A UK-flagged bulk carrier ran aground Friday in the Lower Mississippi River near New Orleans. The U.S Coast Guard said it received a report at 8:32 in the

The first contract to begin dredging the Port of Corpus Christi ship channel to make room for fully-loaded supertankers has been awarded in what in seen as

By Barbara Liston (Clearview Post) – Think anonymous reviews in crowd-sourced forums like Yelp and Glassdoor are protected by the First Amendment? A

LONDON, Jan 4 (Reuters) – The Iranian navy will send warships to deploy in the Atlantic from March, a top commander said on Friday, as the Islamic

A fire has broke out aboard a Hapag-Lloyd containership in the North Atlantic off the east coast of Canada. In a statement posted to its website, Hapag-Lloyd

By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM, Jan 4 (Reuters) – Dutch authorities will hold Swiss shipping line MSC liable for the cost of cleaning up debris from more

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Jan 3 (Reuters) – Work began on Thursday to extend a small British port that could serve as a back-up if the UK leaves the

A Chinese fish carrier with 24 crew is aground on an uninhabited atoll in the Marshall Islands. The ship, identified as the 308-foot Chinese-flagged commercial

Authorities in Germany and the Netherlands are continuing to respond to the loss of an estimated 270 containers from the mega containership MSC ZOE in the