If you live anywhere in the US, chances are that you have a product in your home right now that came through the Port of Los Angeles. The largest port in the Western hemisphere handles about a quarter of all cargo distributed throughout the country—about $1 billion a day. Now LA is working to make it the most environmentally responsible port as well. But it hasn't been easy.

The Chinese captain of a freighter stopped by the Colombian authorities is under house arrest in Cartagena for allegedly carrying unregistered weapons and military equipment bound for Cuba. The Hong Kong-registered Da Dan Xia has been impounded for a week after local authorities claim 100 tonnes of gunpowder, 99 projectile bases and 3,000 artillery cartridge cases were discovered aboard, reports AFP.

Watching the process of loading a cruise ship is a bewildering spectacle of logistics and organization. Tons of food and drink join a seemingly endless assembly of trucks packed with other essential supplies—lugging aboard a menagerie of goods aimed at anticipating the every need of paying passengers. Which is a sort of nice way of saying: There’s a lot of junk that gets loaded onto a cruise ship. And even more that ends up coming off of it.

The former captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Wednesday for his role in the 2012 shipwreck, which killed 32 people off the Tuscan holiday island of Giglio. Francesco Schettino was commanding the vessel, a floating hotel as long as three football pitches, when it hit rocks off the island, tearing a hole in its side. A court in the town of Grosseto found him guilty of multiple manslaughter...

One of the world’s most dazzling engineering feats is largely hidden from view, as Tim Maughan discovers when he took a futuristic journey on a container ship.

Speaking before nearly 3,000 attendees at the Naval Future Force Science and Technology (S&T) EXPO in Washington, D.C, Admiral Jonathan Greenert Chief of Naval Operations charged his audience to reduce reliance on gunpowder in a wide-ranging speech on the future technogical needs of the Navy.

Navy photographer Ignacio Perez likes to shoot landscapes but never dreamed he'd shoot an amazing one on the deck of an aircraft carrier.

When the USS Kauffman left Norfolk Naval Station this month, it marked the beginning of the end for an entire class of vessels in the U.S. Navy.

This gigantic car transporter has been run aground--on purpose--after it began to list just off the coast of the UK. It weighs 51,000 tons, is laden with 1,400 cars--and now needs to be righted.

Gordon Rippon had just finished a four-hour watch on the bridge of the Centaur and was heading for bed. It was 04:00 on 14 May 1943 and the Centaur, an Australian hospital ship, was just east of Brisbane. It was heading for Papua New Guinea, where Australian troops were fighting the Japanese. The vessel was carrying a full medical staff and the Cairns-bound 2/12 Field Ambulance unit, plus a merchant crew.

Le Griffon, a well known ship that sunk in Lake Michigan during the 17th century, has been hiding at the depths of the lake for more than 300 years...

An international rescue effort was under way in high winds after a car ferry with 466 people on board caught fire while sailing from Greece to Italy and its captain ordered its evacuation, officials said on Sunday.

Climbing onto the largest vessel the world has ever seen brings you into a realm where everything is on a bewilderingly vast scale and ambition knows no bounds. Prelude is a staggering 488m long and the best way to grasp what this means is by comparison with something more familiar. Four football pitches placed end-to-end would not quite match this vessel's length - and if you could lay the 301m of the...

The U.S. Navy says its new laser weapon works and it will use it if it has to.

The U.S. Navy announced Wednesday that a new laser weapon deployed into Persian Gulf earlier this year performed seamlessly during testing that wrapped up in November, and declared the weapon a success.

With roughly 100,000 large merchant ships in the water at any time, scores sink, burn, break apart, run aground, or explode each year—often with toxic consequences. It is Captain Nick Sloane's job to board troubled vessels and salvage what he can. Against heavy odds, he recently refloated the doomed cruise ship Costa Concordia. William Langewiesche explains why Sloane may be the most valuable man on the seas

Armistice Day is remembered as the day World War One ended, but for naval historians Britain's greatest victory came 10 days later. Operation ZZ was the code name for the surrender of Germany's mighty navy.

The Pacific NW has become a proving ground for advanced small-scale combat vessels, ranging from semi-submersible stealth boats, to updated versions of the classic patrol boat. And now, the Combat Craft Medium Mark One (CCM Mk1), shown in the exclusive photo above, has made an appearance on the mighty Columbia River.

A Portuguese navy ship has escorted a Russian oceanic research vessel away from Portugal's maritime economic zone.

About 80 suspicious fishing boats have been spotted in waters around Torishima island, one of islands which belong to the Izu Islands. A Yomiuri Shimbun airplane witnessed the scene on Friday. These vessels are considered to be Chinese boats, poaching valuable “jewelry coral”.