WITH the completion of the Panama Canal at a comparatively early date, and the growing and natural desire of America to possess a mercantile marine of her own, it is safe to prophesy that, before ...

The moving of religious artwork by the Trump administration is drawing strong feelings from opposition groups.

The U.S. Maritime Commission needs 40,000 more seamen and 10,000 more licensed officers to man the 1,200 new merchantmen which will slide down the ways in 1942-43. It will have to look alive to find ...

Colleges are struggling to produce enough merchant seamen to meet demand, even though more graduates with non-maritime degrees are opting for a life at sea, experts have warned. More than 10,000 ...

Several israel merchant seamen aboard the cargo vessel Neir Dizengoff have been ordered by a Russian military court not to set foot on Soviet soil for the next 28 years, the newspaper Haboker reported ...

OCEAN SPRINGS, Mississippi -- Ocean Springs resident Donald Young, who served as a merchant seaman during World War Ii in both the Pacific and European Theaters, will be honored with placement on the ...

While a crewman aboard the M/V/ Maersk Alabama seems to imply in a note to friends that merchant vessels need weapons to battle future Somali pirate attacks, a leading maritime security expert says ...

“I’M NOT COMFORTABLE in my chair with such a crew,” says the captain of a cargo vessel in the South Atlantic en route from Bermuda to Singapore. He is eight months into a four-month contract, and ...