The U.S. Coast Guard has cautioned sailors around Hawaii after more than 1,900 shipping containers fell off a Japanese-flagged ship last week, according to reports. Rough weather off the coast of ...

BOSTON - Ninety percent of traded goods are shipped by sea and 10% contain what is called dangerous goods, according to the World Shipping Council. Dangerous goods or hazmat cargo can be anything from ...

The shipping industry has witnessed tremendous growth in the international, global carriage of goods by container vessels. Container ships have been ever increasing in size, and capacity. There are ...

Improper storage of dangerous goods can have disastrous consequences if these goods are not kept at a properly controlled temperature. The International Maritime Organization (IMO)—the United Nation’s ...

“The problem of dangerous gases in shipping containers is very common,” warns Kristian Hentelä, an application specialist from Gasmet, a gas monitoring company operating out of Finland. “The problem ...

The International Group of P&I Clubs and the shipping line members of the Cargo Incident Notification System (CINS) have recently produced a new set of guidelines for the carriage of calcium ...

The cost to ship a standard 40-foot container of goods from Shanghai to New York has risen to nearly $10,000. That’s because cargo ships are taking the long way around Africa to avoid Houthi rebels in ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian Coast Guard was attempting to tow a container ship that caught fire off the coast of Kerala in southern India earlier this week to prevent a potential ecological disaster, ...

, Oct. 28 -- In a move to ensure port safety and environmental protection, a total of 19 containers of Dangerous Goods (DG) that had been lying unattended for years at Chittagong Port were safely ...

Improper storage of dangerous goods can have disastrous consequences if these goods are not kept at a properly controlled temperature. Improper storage of dangerous goods can have disastrous ...