Maritime Trafficking: How Balkan Gangsters Became Europe’s Top Cocaine Suppliers
In 2018, convicted cocaine trafficker Slobodan Kostovski fled a Brazilian prison and made his way back to Europe with a…
Kristian Siem-backed Subsea 7 alliance gets the inside track on huge Equinor oilfields
Kristian Siem-backed company and joint venture strike deal with Equinor
Mystery Spill Returns to San Juan Harbor
The U.S. Coast Guard is working to clean up a mystery spill at the port of San Juan, Puerto Rico.…
DARPA Unveils Manta Ray, Uncrewed Extended Duration Undersea Vessel
Borrowing a page from 1960s science fiction programming, officials at DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) released the…
Op-Ed: It’s Time to Add Respect as a Core Navy and Marine Corps Value
Three years is a long time to ruminate on a decision. But that is how long it has been since…
Australia “Not Concerned” by Possible Hanwha Acquisition of Austal
The Australian government is not concerned about a possible acquisition of shipbuilder Austal by South Korea’s Hanwha Group and is…
Containerships Absorb Red Sea Diversions as Schedule Reliability Improves
Four months into the Red Sea diversions, liner shipping seems to have absorbed the disruptions with the major container carriers…
Philippines Will Stick to Nonviolence After Chinese Water-Cannon Attacks
The Philippine Coast Guard will not match the China Coast Guard’s increasingly aggressive tactics in the South China Sea, a…
Viking Takes Wall Street by Storm with Best IPO of 2024
Viking, the luxury operator of ocean, river, and exploration cruises, roared onto Wall Street going public today, May 1, with…
Replica Ship Models – Nautical Art or Marketing Tool? Perhaps Both.
Boat builders and owners have been using replica models for centuries. The earliest known models are of Bronze Age ships,…