27 APR 2023  This episode is the second installment in a 10-part short film series from The Outlaw Ocean Project. It stems from more than a decade of reporting by Ian Urbina exploring crime on the high seas. The series chronicles a gritty cast of characters including traffickers and smugglers, pirates and …

26 APR 2023 Mariners love to complain about day rates and talk about which companies have the best pay, but Bangladesh’s inland crewmembers have more grounds for grouching than most. Until recently, deckhands and cooks on Bangladeshi riverboats earned as little as $95 a month. This is a minute fraction …

25 APR 2023 Zealand has officially ended its livestock exports by sea, citing animal welfare concerns, as the last live export ship departed from the country, Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor announced Friday. The ban comes after the sinking of livestock carrier Gulf Livestock 1 in 2020, carrying over 6,000 cattle bound for …

24 APR 2023 US crude transferred from bigger to smaller tankers will contribute to pricing of the world’s most important oil benchmark, removing what traders saw as a stumbling block in a long-planned reform. WTI Midland crude loaded onto a smaller Aframax tanker, which received the cargo from a larger …

23 APR 2023 Research suggests people can generate false memories within the blink of an eye. In a series of four experiments led by the University of Amsterdam, researchers showed 534 people letters of the Western alphabet in actual and mirrored orientations. After some participants were shown an interference slide …

21 APR 2023 The world’s largest floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) has arrived in Hong Kong where it is set help meet the city’s growing energy needs. The Bauhinia Spirit, with a length of 345 meters and a storage capacity of 263,000m3 of LNG, arrived at the South Cheung …

20 APR 2023 The Kremlin has said the outlook is “not so great” for extending beyond May 18 a deal that allows the safe wartime export of grain from some Ukrainian Black Sea ports, raising concerns over what happens next with the U.N.-backed sea corridor. The deal has helped to tackle a global food …

16 APR 2023  Success 9 was missing for five days with an international search looking for the tanker. The missing Singapore-registered tanker that was boarded at the beginning of the week has finally been located with authorities in Singapore and South Korea. A search had been ongoing since the Success 9 was …

19 APR 2023 The number of humans on Earth reached 8 billion in November 2022. Now a new report suggests that the world’s population may peak at just 9 billion by 2050, a number far lower than previously thought. Compared to other more well-known estimates, such as those from the United Nations, …

18 APR 2023 In a ceremony at Sedef Shipyard attended by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, officials described the new amphib as a “drone carrier.” While the TCG Anadolu was originally conceived as a platform for manned fighters, its flight deck and maintenance hangar will provide ample space for deploying advanced drone …