The Hong Kong Convention addresses key environmental, occupational health, and safety risks involved in the recycling of ships.

The USTR also has yet to provide details who would be collecting the fees, or how the money would be directed back into U.S. shipbuilding, said World Shipping Council CEO Joe Kramek.

The Burns Harbor grain terminal first opened in 1979, and helped move more than 500 million bushels of corn and soybeans up until its closure in 2023.

Henry Wilkinson, chief intelligence officer with Dragonfly Intelligence, describes the current threats to global shipping and aviation posted by geopolitical conflicts.

China's UN Ambassador Fu Cong said all parties should restrain "the impulse of force... and adding fuel to the fire," according to a state-run CCTV report. 

European Union’s naval force warned of a severe threat to ships linked to the U.S. and Israel, and a low risk for all other ships.

The new wharf, designed in compliance with the Port’s seismic code, partially replaced a timber wharf that was extensively damaged in a fire in 2014.  

Many technologies that shipping companies are testing to curtail emissions tend to be complex and costly with an uncertain return on investment. Not this one.

False location signals and jamming of vessels’ navigational equipment have become a growing feature of the commercial shipping industry in the past few years.