Chinese archaeologists uncovered a 7,500-year-old civilization on Pingtan Island off the coast of Fujian province in southeastern China that suggests the island could have been an original source of what some scientists consider the greatest maritime migration in human history, according to
A British maritime agency has reported an alarming incident involving a ship being directed to change its route to an unspecified port in Yemen. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, responsible for Middle East sailor warnings, initially reported a fire on an
Italy has impounded the Spanish charity rescue ship Open Arms for violating rules by Italy’s right-wing government banning multiple rescues at sea, the charity said Thursday. The boat is blocked from leaving the port of Carrera in Tuscany for 20 days and
US gains authority to unilaterally enforce maritime law in Pacific amid regional tensions with China
The United States has been given authority to unilaterally enforce maritime regulations around Palau after signing a new agreement with the tiny Pacific island country, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday. In the new agreement, U.S. Coast Guard ships can enforce regulations
The head of the United Nations called Monday for maritime nations to agree on a course for the shipping industry to reduce its climate-harming emissions to net zero by the middle of the century at the latest. The appeal by U.N. Secretary-General
French magistrates on Thursday filed preliminary charges against five French maritime rescue personnel in a probe of the deadly sinking of a flimsy migrant craft in the English Channel in 2021 that killed 27 people. The five, all military personnel, were handed
China’s dispute with Japan over tiny Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea is heating up again, with both sides accusing the other of infringing on their maritime territory. China says the islands belong to it and refuses to recognize Japan’s claim