A large wood and metal ball used by ships' crews as a visual aid to set their clocks by has been reinstalled at the top of ...

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Not only is there reduced traffic, the container ships that arrive often have fewer containers on board. The Port of Oakland operates around the clock, with ships coming and going all day and all ...

Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ships. The ships, named Fridericus ...

Capt. Tobias Kammann on his freighter, the Hanoi Express, docked in Hamburg, Germany. Ships’ access to the Suez Canal has been cut off for the last year by attackers in Yemen.Credit ...

In a race against the clock on the high seas, an expanding international armada of ships and airplanes searched Tuesday for a submersible that vanished in the North Atlantic while taking five ...