After WWI, steel shortages led the U.S. to experiment with reinforced concrete ships, including the 7,500-ton SS Cuyamaca ...

Around 90% of Iran's oil exports pass through Kharg Island, but the US president says oil infrastructure was not targeted.

The Ross explosion hit close to home for my family because the building that blew up used to be a Market Basket supermarket, where my father worked for years and my mother and I loyally shopped for ...

Explosions are reported on two more foreign tankers in the Persian Gulf killing at least one person, port authorities say.

More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world.

Iran claimed it struck a US aircraft carrier with drones as it retaliated against a joint US-Israeli attack in late February ...

The release of 400 million barrels by members of the International Energy Agency is designed to "address disruptions in oil ...

The reports of attacks on commercial ships came after the US said it "eliminated" 16 Iranian mine-layers in the area. Elsewhere, two drones were downed near Dubai airport.

One only had to witness cities devoured by flames, see fleets of ships sinking, their sails ablaze, or behold screaming victims doused in boiling pitch to know the deadly efficacy of ancient thermal ...

The World Legacy cruise ship, operated by World Cruises Singapore, lost a crewmember on early Friday morning after a fire broke out in the lounge area on Deck 9. Aboard were 224 passengers, 185 of ...

Heat sensors embedded in handrails could save six vital minutes over established methods of detecting fires in large container ships, researchers have found. Danish researchers carried out tests using ...