Topic: Suez Canal

The United Nations announced Thursday it will purchase a decaying, oil-filled supertanker off the coast of Yemen in an attempt to avoid a potential catastrophic oil spill.

The U.S. Navy says it seized 2,116 assault rifles, smuggled aboard a fishing boat in the Gulf of Oman. It is the third time the Navy has confiscated lethal aid on the route between Iran and Yemen in the past two months.

A bulk carrier suffered an engine failure in the Suez Canal on Monday but appears it will not stall traffic on one of the world's most important waterways.

Almost one year after the Ever Given container ship became stuck in the Suez Canal, which led to a global disruption in trade, another Evergreen Marine Corp. cargo vessel has run aground -- this time in Maryland.

The destroyer USS The Sullivans made a port call in Cyprus before rejoining the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, the U.S. Navy reported on Monday.

Interestingly, the last trip I made, in late February 2020, was to Bucharest, Romania, just before COVID-19 shut everything down.

The container ship that blocked one of the world's busiest waterways for six days departed Egypt's Great Bitter Lake after a signing ceremony between its owners and the Suez Canal Authority.

Toymakers are entering another nervous holiday season amid the coronavirus pandemic and shipping incidents such as the blockage of the Suez Canal in March.

Soaring shipping demands amid the COVID-19 pandemic have helped South Korea's top shipper, HMM, rack up record profits during the first three months of 2021.

The USS Philippine Sea has returned to Florida's Naval Station Mayport, marking the end a nearly 10-month deployment, the Navy announced Thursday.