A speed boat and a sail boat pass as the USS Ronald Reagan, a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered super carrier, departs for Yokosuka, Japan from Naval Station North Island in San Diego, California August 31, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights Pressure growing on shipping sector to decarbonise faster Nuclear fuel […]
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Key events Welcome Good morning and welcome to our rolling news coverage. I’m Martin Farrer, bringing you some overnight headlines before Emily Wind takes over. After two weeks of escalating rhetoric and division around the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum, the no camp has taken a majority lead in our […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ top court on Thursday rejected a case brought by Nicaragua in a decades-long dispute with Colombia over maritime borders and entitlements in the Caribbean. The International Court of Justice dismissed Nicaragua’s bid to gain economic rights over an area of the Caribbean […]
Countries belonging to the United Nations’ shipping agency on Friday reached an agreement to reach net zero emissions from shipping by midcentury. In the announcement Friday, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) said the deal will set a target of net zero by 2050 from shipping among its 175 countries, “taking […]
TAMPA, Fla. — OneWeb launched a free trial offer for maritime customers June 6 after bringing its low Earth orbit (LEO) broadband network online over a larger swathe of the northern hemisphere. The British operator said its network is now fully operational down to 35 degrees latitude, encompassing much of […]
ST. LOUIS — The geospatial intelligence companies BlackSky and Spire Global announced May 24 they are offering a new global monitoring service that tracks ships via satellites. The “maritime custody service” uses radio frequency emissions to automatically task imagery, detect and classify vessels, and continuously monitor change, the companies said. […]
Australian researchers have found the wreck of a coastal freighter that sank half a century ago. The ship, named the MV Blythe Star, departed Hobart, a coastal city in Tasmania, one of Australia’s island states, on Oct. 12, 1973. The next morning, the ship took on water and listed before […]
The ship that sank with 979 Australian troops and civilians in World War II.mp4 The wreck of the Montevideo Maru — a Japanese prisoner transport that sank during World War 2 — has been located off of the coast of the Philippines, 68 miles north-west of Luzon. The vessel had […]