Clippership, a marine robotics company started in a Los Angeles garage by brothers Nico and Luca Cymbalist, and Kai Matsuka to develop autonomous wind-powered cargo ships has completed the design of its first vessel, and has executed a construction contract for it with Dutch shipyard KM Yachtbuilders.

A misplaced wire label, the vulnerability of a bridge and other mishaps in protocols likely caused the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge after a large vessel struck it in the spring last year,

The crew of the Greek-operated cargo ship Eternity C, which sank in the Red Sea in July after being attacked by Yemen's Houthis, have been released, an official with the ship's operator and a maritime security source told Reuters on Wednesday.

A South Korean shipbuilder secured a contract for repair and maintenance on the dry cargo ship USNS Amelia Earhart, seen here breaking away from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson following a replenishment-at-sea on May 5, 2025. (Jennifer Owens/U.S. Navy)

A U.S. special operations team boarded a ship in the Indian Ocean last month and seized military-related articles headed to Iran from China, U.S. officials said, an operation aimed at blocking Tehran from rebuilding its military arsenal.

The Crescent River Port Pilots began assigning two pilots to the largest cargo ships in July, citing rising safety risks and aligning with practices in other Gulf ports. Shippers and port users say the move highlights long-standing concerns about pilot autonomy and rising costs as New Orleans prepares for its new Violet terminal.

State-owned Jiangnan Shipyard is designing a 25,000-container nuclear-powered vessel, its vice president Lin Qingshan told the South China Morning Post during the Marintec China conference in Shanghai. If built, it would mark the first time nuclear propulsion is used for a large merchant container ship.

A U.S. special operations team boarded a ship in the Indian Ocean last month and seized cargo headed to Iran from China, a U.S. official said, a rare operation at sea aimed at blocking Tehran from rebuilding its military arsenal.

Everything old is new again — at least in the cargo industry. This week, Insider reported that a handful of companies are ditching expensive cargo vessels that rely on fossil fuels and are switching back to good ol’ sailing ships. It’s not for the ...

A Carnival Cruise Line ship rescued six people after their vessel capsized. Carnival Vista brought six men on board early Wednesday morning near the Dominican Republic after they got stranded overnight. The men had been in a small cargo vessel. “Carnival ...