The cost of the mega containership Ever Given blocking Suez Canal traffic exceeds $9B a day but the cost of bringing these ships into poor and highly populated cities like...

By Will Wade (Bloomberg) — New York’s East River is set to become the testing ground for a technology that generates electricity from the tides. Verdant Power, a New York-based...

The owners and captain of a river boat in New York City have been arrested over an illegal charter cruise that allegedly violated social distancing orders and alcohol laws. New...

by John Konrad (gCaptain) gCaptain believes the future of our industry will be shaped by startups… but few realize that important new maritime startups come in all shapes and sizes...

by David M. Levitt (Bloomberg) — America may never recover its glory as a manufacturing powerhouse, but the Brooklyn Navy Yard is doing what it can, transforming itself from a...

The first new ferry in NYC Ferry’s fleet has been christened Lunch Box and has commenced service connecting Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx along the East River.  Lunch Box,...

Eleven kayakers including a child were rescued and at least five were injured after a collision with a NY Waterway ferry at Pier 79 on the Hudson River today, officials from the Fire Department of New...

The Bayonne Bridge is the fifth-longest steel arch bridge in the world, and was the longest in the world at the time of its completion. The bridge is also one of four connecting...

Lying below the surface of the bay and extending from the tip of Sandy Hook to the south shore of Long Island is a series of shoals that separate the...

The 28th annual Fleet Week New York kicked off Wednesday with a parade of ships past the Verrazano Bridge and into New York Harbor. The week long celebration has been held every...

Almost every ship entering the Port of New York and New Jersey from the Atlantic Ocean must first pass underneath the Verrazano–Narrows Bridge, connecting Brooklyn, NY with Staten Island. Here’s...

Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 sailed into its U.S. home port in New York Tuesday morning escorted by historic ships and Coast Guard vessels as the company continues its 175th Anniversary...

A bulk carrier clipped the bottom of the Brooklyn Bridge Friday night causing its brief closure but not damage to the bridge or ship.

The new Broadway musical, "The Last Ship", featuring new music and lyrics from Sting, had its official opening night late last month.

All 121 passengers aboard a 158-foot tall ship had to be rescued Saturday after the vessel ran aground and got stuck near the Statue of Liberty.

Breaking news: The powerful pumps on board the New York City Fire Department’s Robert Allan Ltd-designed fire boat, Fire Fighter II are coming in handy this afternoon as the sole...

A U.S. Coast Guard Marine Inspector and an Investigating Officer are responding to a report of a vessel collision involving a New York Pilot boat and a 984-foot cargo container ship, resulting in injuries.

A crewmember sustained serious injuries Wednesday after a 38-foot tugboat capsized and sank after taking on water approximately three miles south of Atlantic Beach, N.Y, the second such incident in just two days in the area.

Walt Whitman was born in Long Island, New York, in 1819 to a barely literate mother of Dutch origin and a hard disciplinarian carpenter father of English lineage....

While the towers burned and collapsed on September 11, 2001, a half million people were evacuated from Lower Manhattan by a civilian flotilla of ferries, tug boats and other vessels in what has become known as the largest boatlift in history.