The U.S. Navy's first aircraft carrier was a converted ... takes the concept to new heights with ships that are half cargo ship and half luxury cruise ship. The resulting hybrid vessels, like ...

Plastic pellets washing up ashore pose an immediate threat while hazardous cargo, including chemicals and oil, could be ...

We need new thinking—something that doesn’t come naturally to large bureaucracies like the one in the Pentagon—about national defense. A guiding principle of that new thinking must be that the defense ...

Something else I wanted to say about the history of the tall ship Wavertree which loaded dressed timber at Montrose in 1889.

A fascinating new book revealing what is was like for crew and soldiers on QE2's epic voyage in 1982 to save lives in the ...

Despite today's advanced maritime navigation and communication tools, ships keep turning up with no passengers or crew in ...

From 1914 to 1948, it operated as a cargo ship carrying onions ... I bought that and converted it into a floating Tex-Mex restaurant on the shores of Sentosa, an island off Singapore known ...

This ship is a roll-on/roll off – or RoRo – vessel, a type of cargo ship specially designed to carry vehicles or other goods on wheels. Named "Shenzhen," this vessel is powered by a dual ...

The modular apparatus is claimed to capture as much as 70% of the CO 2 emissions from cargo ship exhaust systems. Whether because of environmental concerns or a self-interest in economic survival ...

LONDON — A cargo ship hit a tanker carrying jet fuel for the U.S. military off eastern England on Monday, setting both vessels ablaze and sending fuel pouring into the North Sea. Greenpeace U.K ...

Since the ship was carrying combustible cargo, it has not docked at the port but anchored at the SPM, 15 nautical miles off the Paradip port with local boats carrying out the offloading.