Op-Ed: Seafarer Recruitment Should Never Be a Gamble

Published Feb 4, 2026 7:35 AM by Josephine Le

Recent reports concerning Chinese seafarers who traveled overseas for what they believed were legitimate job opportunities, only t...

Video: Tanker Crew Rescues Yacht in Challenging Weather off Bahamas

Published Feb 3, 2026 11:12 PM by The Maritime Executive

On Monday morning, a merchant tanker rescued three people from a sailboat in distress about 450 miles to the east of Daytona Beach...

Published Feb 3, 2026 2:35 PM by The Maritime Executive

The alliance between Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd will start for the first time to send vessels through the Red Sea as part of its gradu...

Published Feb 2, 2026 8:18 PM by The Maritime Executive

Oil exports from Venezuela have surged upwards since the end of the U.S. embargo and the capture of former dictator Nicolas Maduro...

Published Feb 2, 2026 7:15 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Maritime Enforcement Agency of Malaysia proudly celebrated its crackdown last week on an illegal ship-to-ship oil transfer but...

Published Feb 2, 2026 4:31 PM by The Maritime Executive

An arrest warrant was issued late on January 30 in Taiwan for the captain of a Yang Ming containership on suspicion of drug smuggl...

Published Feb 2, 2026 1:53 PM by The Maritime Executive

Officials of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized a large amount of unreported cash from a Chinese-owned bulker whi...

Published Feb 2, 2026 1:20 PM by The Maritime Executive

The captain of the containership Solong was convicted on Monday, February 2, of gross negligent manslaughter by a court in the UK...

Published Feb 1, 2026 11:10 PM by The Maritime Executive

Unprecedented criticism over the growing numbers of illegal migrants crossing the English Channel using small boats has forced the...

Published Feb 1, 2026 9:15 PM by The Maritime Executive

For Ukrainian maritime intelligence officers looking to do the Russians damage, the passage of shadow fleet tankers through the Bl...