8+ hour, 57+ min ago   (207+ words) Indonesian rescuers were searching on Sunday for 140 people from a passenger ship that sank in the Java Sea after 103 others were evacuated, one of whom died, a search and rescue agency official said. An Indonesian passenger ship carrying 243 people had…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (191+ words) Authorities have reported the hijacking of a cargo ship by suspected pirates off the coast of Yemen on Thursday, September 10. The vessel, which has been identified by UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) as the Greek-owned, Saint Vincent and Grenadines-flagged bulk…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (298+ words) Iceland's government will submit a bill in February to ban whaling, a move that would leave Norway and Japan as the only two countries in the world to continue commercial whaling. Whaling in Iceland has sparked years of protests from…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (498+ words) Oil prices jumped six per cent on Thursday, with both major benchmarks trading at over $100 a barrel as the biggest spike in attacks on shipping since the Iran war began fed worries among traders about further disruptions to already tight…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (472+ words) Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis edged closer on Thursday to gaining leverage over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, one of the world's most important routes for commodity vessels, four Yemeni Government military sources said, as fighting with Saudi-backed forces tilts towards a resumption…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (236+ words) Five people were killed after a Ro-Pax ferry suffered an onboard fire while off Palawan province in the Western Philippines on Wednesday, September 9. The locally-owned ferry June Aster was underway near Palawan's Coron municipality when the blaze ignited in an…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (205+ words) Northern Cyprus Prime Minister Ünal Üstel has confirmed the recovery of two more bodies in the wake of a ferry capsizing accident that occurred late last month. The latest recoveries bring the death toll of the August 30 capsizing of the…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (222+ words) The death toll of a ferry capsizing accident that occurred off Northern Cyprus late last month has now increased to 12 following the recovery of additional victims’ bodies. The latest figure of the death toll following the capsizing of the Turkish-flagged…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (306+ words) Two Turkish-flagged commercial vessels collided off Istanbul in the Sea of Marmara on Wednesday and one of the ships, which had 10 crew on board, is believed to have sunk, the Istanbul governor's office and Turkish maritime affairs authority said. The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (290+ words) The small Pacific Island state of Vanuatu is trying to bring a decades-old dispute with France over two uninhabited islands before the International Court of Justice, the United Nations' top court said on Tuesday. The ICJ, also known as the…...