The Arctic's blue economy promises real gains for the global energy transition, but promise alone is not a governance strategy.

Hanwha Power's 22,000-cubic-meter LNG bunkering vessel has secured ABS approval, and the dual-fuel capability is what makes this design worth watching.

The first open military confrontation between Pakistan and India since May 2025 has arrived, this time near the Exclusive Economic Zone, marking a sharp escalation in an already tense maritime theatre.

A Tanzanian-flagged cargo ship was struck by a Russian drone as it made its way to a Ukrainian port.

Twelve gliders in the northern South China Sea confirmed what simulations predicted: mapping a mesoscale eddy's full three-dimensional structure demands deliberate array design, not guesswork.

Port Alpha Shipyard in Texas will build the Navy's next landing craft under a firm fixed-price agreement, an OTA award that anchors production on the U.S. Gulf Coast. This vessel marks the yard's first such contract, a…

Colliding ice floes are transferring energy across the Arctic, and that simple, physical process is rewriting assumptions about how the ice moves.

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill exposed a persistent flaw in oil impact assessment: fate models predict where oil goes, but they rarely connect that chemistry to the biological harm it causes.

A quiet morning with binoculars, a notebook, and a sudden realization: the heron's arc is a parabola.

Automated ports promise measurable gains in productivity and efficiency, but only when their interconnected systems prove flexible, dependent, and secure.

The death of Savas Cakar, a 54-year-old engine room worker, is a stark reminder that maritime commerce now carries a wartime cost.

Yellowfin tuna move with the ocean's rhythms, and now we can see exactly which environmental threads guide their path.

Autonomous cleanup vessels only earn their keep when they can see what they are meant to collect.

For two decades, Taiwan and Japan have quietly rewritten the terms of their seafood trade.

Groundwater in Laamu Atoll carries nutrient loads one to two orders of magnitude higher than coastal or reef waters, with several wells exceeding national drinking-water standards for ammonium.

Wake, oscillation coupling is not a footnote in pollutant spread; it is the mechanism.

A satellite that beams light on demand sounds like a solution in search of a problem, until you consider who gets to decide what that means.

Castelion's initial production order for hypersonic strike missiles moves beyond design into measurable delivery.

An evacuation is underway after a fire alarm prompted a response to a cruise ship near Denmark, with police, firefighters, and Danish Emergency Management Agency personnel dispatched to the vessel.

A 184-foot section of the Virginia-Class submarine traveled by barge from Quonset Point to Electric Boat's facility in Groton, Connecticut, marking a significant step for the integrated module.

As mountain regions warm under human-caused climate change, the stability of high-altitude landscapes is coming into sharper focus.

Menopause does not shrink the brain.

Five months after the MSC ELSA-3 went down off India's Keralam coast, its plastic pellets are still washing ashore.

A US-contracted vessel came under attack near the Strait of Hormuz this week, struck by four drones and at least one missile.

Safety protocols at San Diego's Building 635 now require sailors to unplug portable air conditioners, following a memo issued Aug.

Tidal currents in port channels are rarely this telling.

Diplomatic channels remain open even as tensions escalate along Yemen's Red Sea coast.

The ocean remains the least observed domain on Earth, yet nearly all our digital lives depend on it.

The ocean remains critically under-observed, a gap that undermines our ability to respond to climate change.

Thirty years of trade data now show what the blue economy's digital future looks like: broader, more diversified, and increasingly tied to high-tech marine sectors.

The International Maritime Organization's Secretary-General has issued a direct appeal: Member States must stop actions that endanger merchant ships and put seafarers at risk.

A 174K LNG carrier with a forward accommodation arrangement is the centerpiece of a new industry collaboration.

In February 2024, the submarine NAUTILE descended beyond 3,900 meters along Ecuador's margin, capturing degraded fishing gear at cold seeps and intact packaging on the abyssal plain.

Merchant shipping is under sustained attack across the Middle East, the Black Sea, and the Red Sea, and seafarers are paying the heaviest price for it.

Two former U.S. Navy sailors have pleaded guilty in federal court to selling counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl to fellow crew members aboard an aircraft carrier. This is a sobering breach of trust, one…

The Java Sea recovery operation is now moving with deliberate precision as authorities prepare to right the capsized ferry, a necessary step in accounting for the 129 still missing.

Duplicate engineering drawings have long slowed ship classification reviews, adding time without adding insight.

Methanol is measured in more than tonnes; it is measured in emissions avoided.

Accurate wave forecasting is not a luxury; it is a safety requirement.

A collision between a Pakistan Navy vessel and an Indian warship in the Arabian Sea during routine surveillance operations raises immediate questions about maritime protocols.

India is turning to a practical source of secondary steel: the hulls of retired ships.

Saudi Arabia's decision to reroute crude through Oman has already trimmed oil prices by 1.2%, a measured market response to reduced supply fears. The move does not erase the Strait of Hormuz's fragility, but it buys…

Copepods are the ocean's canaries, and their response to marine heatwaves is proving more nuanced than expected.

Autonomous shipping promises safer, cleaner seas, but only if navigation systems stop treating the ocean as an obstacle course.

Typhoon-driven waves resist easy prediction, and the SWAN model knows it.

The Panama Canal is tightening its grip.

Celebrity Cruises has announced the first of twenty river ships, a vessel that will navigate the Rhine and Danube.

Nutrient-rich currents are the ocean's circulatory system, and new findings show how basin-scale flows directly steer productivity shifts.

Maersk's decision to reroute four services, AE5, AE11, AE12, and ME2, back through the Suez Canal marks a calculated return, not a careless one.

A targeted shift in immune cell behavior within lymph nodes is showing measurable impact in an Alzheimer's model.