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Taiwan remained on high alert on Wednesday after China staged massive military drills around the island the previous day, keeping its emergency maritime

Finnish authorities boarded and seized a cargo vessel called Fitburg on Wednesday, after it was suspected of having damaged underwater cables in the Baltic

When historians chronicle 2025, they won’t remember it as the year shipping got more efficient or cleaner. They’ll remember it as the year the

India just threw down $5.4 billion to crash the global shipbuilding party. For Western yards already struggling against Asian dominance, it's another wake-up

Global exports of liquefied natural gas in 2025 likely saw the biggest jump in three years, as new supply came online in North

Russia launched waves of drones to attack port infrastructure and civilian ships in Ukraine's Odesa region on Tuesday, Ukrainian navy and government

 At least two oil tankers have made their way to Venezuela in recent days and others are navigating towards the country, a sign of state-run PDVSA's effort to

The United States just signed contracts for Finland to build American warships, a stark admission that the world's most powerful navy can no longer construct

More than a decade after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished with 239 people aboard, a renewed search effort has officially begun in one of the

Finland's Rauma Marine Constructions has signed a deal to build two icebreaker ships for the U.S. Coast Guard with delivery in 2028, the company said in a

Two French Navy frigates operating under the Saudi-led Combined Task Force 150 have intercepted more than $142 million worth of illicit drugs from multiple

President Donald Trump said the US struck a facility inside Venezuela, in what would be a significant escalation in its campaign against alleged drug

The U.S. Coast Guard has announced the award of two contracts to build up to six Arctic Security Cutter icebreakers in a joint U.S.-Finland production

Officials in Washington and Caracas remained silent on Monday about President Donald Trump's vague comments on a radio show last week about an apparent U.S.

The Australian-flagged cruise ship Coral Adventurer remains aground off the coast of Papua New Guinea after running into a reef early Saturday

The Trump administration’s abrupt decision this week to suspend construction on five major offshore wind projects has sent shockwaves through the energy

Russia’s Arctic shipping lanes have become a corridor for the global shadow fleet of sanctioned oil and LNG tankers, raising safety, environmental, and

China launched its most extensive war games around Taiwan on Monday to showcase Beijing's ability to cut off the island from outside support in a conflict,

BEIJING, Dec 29 (Reuters) – China’s military moved army, naval, air force and rocket force units around Taiwan on Monday for its “Just

By Ruth Olurounbi and Eric Martin Dec 26, 2025 (Bloomberg) -After the US warned that more strikes may follow its surprise Christmas Day attack on suspected

By Baudelaire Mieu Dec 24, 2025 (Bloomberg) – French crop trader Sucres et Denrees SA, a major cocoa buyer, has closed its operations in Ivory Coast’s

Global container shipping rates climbed 1% this week to $2,213 per 40-foot container, marking the fourth consecutive weekly increase as carriers capitalized on

A 27-year-old crude tanker that was supposedly scrapped in 2021 is due to reach Venezuela late this week, according to ship-tracking data, in the latest

The global trading system, which is finishing up one of its most transformational years of the past century, heads into another facing more challenges to

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observed construction of a submarine with his daughter, a potential heir, and oversaw the test-firing of long-range