Three Russian guards patrolling territorial waters have been injured following an attack by North Korean sailors on 16 August. The sailors were accused by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSS) of illegally crossing the border into Russian waters. FSS officers were detaining 13 ships, […]
Russia has launched a newly constructed nuclear icebreaker, dubbed Ural after the west-Russian mountain range, at the Baltic Shipyard in St Petersburg. The vessel, with a completed hull and lower bridge superstructure, will now be […]
Six crew from the Panama-flagged MSC Mandy were kidnapped by pirates 101 km south of Cotonou, Benin, in West Africa just two days into 2019. The kidnapping of the Russian crew by a group of 8–10 […]
Russia blocked Ukraine ports in the Sea of Azov, Eastern Europe, for at least 10 days beginning 4 December 2018, following a military standoff on the border. Russia seized three Ukrainian naval ships and their crew on […]
As Maersk was signing off in late July on final voyage plans for a historic transit of the North Sea Route – the first attempt by a large container ship to use the Arctic shortcut […]
The year’s first-half results appear to indicate that being a cargo shipper is more lucrative than being a passenger ferry. Viking Line’s results, posted on 16 August, showed that the company’s fortunes are heading in […]
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