The U.S. Navy dismissed two senior officers on Monday after a series of collisions involving Seventh Fleet warships in Asia, citing a loss of confidence in their ability to command. More »
Insurers are counting on real-time technology to help them cut back payouts, from a system warning ships of nearby pirates to an app offering to buy sleepy drivers a coffee on the motorway. More »
South Korean shipper Hyundai Merchant Marine Co Ltd (HMM) (011200.KS) is in talks with BlackRock Inc (BLK.N) about a potential investment but details have yet to be discussed, a HMM spokesman said on Monday. More »
The risk of cyber attacks targeting ships' satellite navigation is pushing nations to delve back through history and develop back-up systems with roots in World War Two radio technology. More »
FILE PHOTO: A right whale swims in Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, in this photo taken April 14, 2011. Erin Burke/Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries/NOAA Marine Mammal Permit # 14603/Handout/File Photo via REUTERS North American conservationists are scram... More »
June 30, 2017 – A general view shows The Rhine Tower (Rheinturm) on the Rhine river in Duesseldorf. Water on the Rhine and Danube in Germany remains shallow and cargo vessels cannot sail fully loaded, traders said on Monday. More »
FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of the rift in the Larsen C seen in an image from the Digital Mapping System over the Antarctica Peninsula, Antarctica, on November 10, 2016. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Handout via One of the biggest icebergs on record has br... More »
FILE PHOTO: The container ship COSCO Development is seen as its became the largest vessel in dimension and capacity to transit the Expanded Panama Canal at Agua Clara locks, on the outskirts of Colon City, Panama May 2, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Lemos COSCO Shippin... More »
FILE PHOTO: Containers from China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) are pictured at a port in Shanghai, China, February 17, 2016. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo COSCO Shipping Holdings Co Ltd (601919.SS) has offered to buy Orient Overseas International Ltd (OOIL) (0... More »
Port workers are seen in front of a shipping vessel unloading its cargo in the port of Banjul, Gambia June 29, 2017. Picture taken June 29, 2017. REUTERS/Emma Farge Chinese and French companies are bidding to help Gambia build up its Atlantic port Banjul to be... More »
FILE PHOTO: Empty Maersk shipping containers are seen stacked at Peel Ports container terminal in Liverpool northern England, December 9, 2016. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo Maersk said it was too early to predict the financial impact of last month’s global Pe... More »
A giant scaffolding sculpture with an image of Britain’s Prime Minister wearing the Union Flag and making a gesture towards continental Europe is seen on top of the cliffs overlooking the south coast of England and the Channel, June 5, 2017. REUTERS/Simon Hare... More »
Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey transits the South China Sea. Kryzentia Weiermann/Courtesy U.S. Navy/via REUTERS China said on Thursday that Chinese warships warned a U.S. Navy warship to leave after it sailed within 12 nautical miles of... More »
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey prepares for a replenishment-at-sea in the South China Sea May 19, 2017. Picture taken May 19, 2017. Kryzentia Weiermann/Courtesy U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS A U.S. Navy warship sailed within 12 naut... More »
Researchers sample water from the East River off New York as part of a study of fish DNA that is helping scientists to track migrations of species such as herring and bass to the region, in New York, U.S., October 30, 2015. Mark Stoeckle/Handout via REUTERS Sc... More »
Armored troop carriers, belonging to Singapore, are detained at a cargo terminal in Hong Kong, China November 28, 2016. REUTERS/Bobby Yip/File Photo Hong Kong authorities have launched a prosecution against the captain of the ship and shipping agent involved i... More »
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Wednesday that China hopes to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea by pushing forward with negotiations for a code of conduct for rival claimants in the disputed waters. More »
Richard LeFrak, President and CEO of LeFrak Organization, answers questions from a reporter during the Reuters Global Real Estate and Infrastructure Summit in New York, June 14, 2010. REUTERS/Keith Bedford A group advising U.S. President Donald Trump on infras... More »
Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), speaks to employees of the Agency in Washington, U.S., February 21, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration will begin rolling back Obama-era environmen... More »
A glut of idled river barges is clogging Mississippi River shorelines from St. Louis to New Orleans, leaving U.S. barge companies that haul grain, coal and other bulk goods counting their losses. More »
File Photo: Chinese dredging vessels are purportedly seen in the waters around Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea in this still image from video taken by a P-8A Poseidon surveillance aircraft provided by the United States Navy... More »
File Photo: David Attenborough poses next to a portrait of himself by Bryan Organ to mark his 90th birthday at New Walk Museum and Art Gallery in Leicester, Britain, September 22, 2016. REUTERS/Darren Staples/File Photo Britain’s most revered TV naturalist Dav... More »
A law enforcement officer stands by holdalls containing cocaine that were washed up on Hopton Beach, near Great Yarmouth, Britain February 9, 2017. Photograph taken February 9, 2017. National Crime Agency/Handout via Reuters Over $60 million dollars’ worth of ... More »
Armed men killed eight fishermen in what appeared to be an attack by pirates in dangerous waters in the southern Philippines, a coast guard spokesman said on Tuesday. More »
Rescue team use inflatable raft as they search for victims after a fire ripped through a boat carrying tourists in the waters of Jakarta Bay, Indonesia, January 2, 2017 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Wahyu Putro A/ via REUTERS Indonesia plans ... More »
The oceanographic survey ship, USNS Bowditch, is shown September 20, 2002, which deployed an underwater drone seized by a Chinese Navy warship in international waters in South China Sea, December 16, 2016. Courtesy U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS The Chinese and... More »
Reince Priebus reacts during a general session at the Republican National Committee Spring Meeting at the Diplomat Resort in Hollywood, Florida, U.S. on April 22, 2016. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming White House chief of... More »
A railway track lies damaged alongside State Highway One near Kaikoura on the upper east coast of New Zealand’s South Island following an earthquake, November 14, 2016. Sgt Sam Shepherd/Courtesy of Royal New Zealand Defence Force/Handout via REUTERS A powerful... More »
A new Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense is seen in an undated artist’s rendering released by Odense City Museums in Odense, Denmark. Kengo Kuma & Associates, Cornelius+Voge, MASU planning/Handout via Reuters A new museum dedicated to the life and work o... More »
Residents stand on a pier ahead of Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, October 2, 2016. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares Haiti and Jamaica urged residents in vulnerable coastal areas to evacuate and Cuba suspended flights on Sunday as bands of rain from Hurr... More »
Inesia Laguerre cradles her grandchild at the shelter set up in the Lycee Philippe Guerrier ahead of Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, October 2, 2016. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Fears mounted in Haiti as Hurricane Matthew edged... More »
A Hanjin Shipping Co ship is seen stranded outside the Port of Long Beach, California, September 8, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo All Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd (117930.KS) chartered vessels that have completed unloading their cargo have been told to can... More »
A Hanjin Shipping Co ship is seen stranded outside the Port of Long Beach, California, September 8, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson A Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd (117930.KS) vessel is finishing unloading in California and scheduled to leave port on Monday, shipping in... More »
Former Hanjin Shipping (117930.KS) chairwoman Choi Eun-young plans to provide 10 billion won ($9 million) in private funds to Hanjin Shipping, a spokeswoman for Choi said on Monday. More »
Container vessel Hanjin Rome sits in the eastern anchorage area in Singapore September 9, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su The collapse of South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping (117930.KS), the world’s seventh-largest container carrier, has disrupted global trade networks and d... More »
The logo of Hanjin Shipping Co is seen on a replica of shipping containers at its headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji Shares in Hanjin Shipping (117930.KS) slumped by the daily limit of 30 percent in resumed trade on Monday... More »
A crane carries a container from a ship of Hanjin Shipping at Hanjin container terminal at the Busan New Port in Busan, about 420 km (261 miles) southeast of Seoul in this August 8, 2013 file photo. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won/File Photo Troubled container shipper Han... More »
File photo of Vincent Bollore, Chairman of media group Vivendi, reacts during the company’s shareholders meeting in Paris, France, April 21, 2016. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/File Photo PARIS (Reuters) – When French tycoon Vincent Bollore backed out of a deal to b... More »
File photo of Vincent Bollore, Chairman of media group Vivendi, reacts during the company’s shareholders meeting in Paris, France, April 21, 2016. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/File Photo PARIS (Reuters) – When French tycoon Vincent Bollore backed out of a deal to b... More »
File photo of Vincent Bollore, Chairman of media group Vivendi, reacts during the company’s shareholders meeting in Paris, France, April 21, 2016. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/File Photo When French tycoon Vincent Bollore backed out of a deal to buy the pay-TV busi... More »
File photo of Vincent Bollore, Chairman of media group Vivendi, reacts during the company’s shareholders meeting in Paris, France, April 21, 2016. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/File Photo When French tycoon Vincent Bollore backed out of a deal to buy the pay-TV busi... More »
By Mathieu Rosemain | PARIS PARIS When French tycoon Vincent Bollore backed out of a deal to buy the pay-TV business of Italian broadcaster Mediaset (MS.MI), and instead proposed to take a large slice of the parent company itself, investors feared he was plott... More »
BEIJING/MANILA China vowed to take all necessary measures to protect its sovereignty over the South China Sea and said it had the right to set up an air defence zone, after rejecting an international tribunal’s ruling denying its claims to the energy-rich wate... More »
BEIJING European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Wednesday that the European Union does not take a stance on sovereignty in South China Sea. Speaking in Beijing, Mogherini said the EU called on all parties to respect legal decisions and u... More »
SHANGHAI Chinese stock investors are finally seeing value in domestic shares, but there’s a twist: instead of wading back onto battered onshore exchanges, they’ve gone shopping for bargains in Hong Kong. By doing so they are exploiting a long-standing market d... More »
SINGAPORE Six crew members are still missing after a general cargo freighter sank in the Singapore Strait following a collision with a chemical tanker at 8:14 p.m. (7.14 a.m. ET) on Dec. 16. The 10,385 deadweight tonne (dwt) cargo freighter Thorco Cloud, opera... More »
PARIS French media group Vivendi pushed out Rodolphe Belmer as chief of its Canal Plus unit on Friday amid disappointment over what one source said was a failure to rejuvenate the pay-TV channel and halt a drop in sales and profits. The move came amid a high-p... More »
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