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November 8, 2025
Tom Brady's Team Brady won the E1 World Championship for a second time in a row on Saturday, after holding off Rafael Nadal and Team Rafa's late challenge at the inaugural Miami Grand Prix. Sam Coleman, a British pilot, and Emma Kimilainen from Finland led the "Championship of the Water"…
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November 7, 2025
The French sailors Jeremie BĂ©you and Morgan Lagraviere won the Transat CAFE L'OR Le Havre Normandie in 2025 with their powerful IMOCA monohull Charal, crossing the finish line on Martinique at dawn Friday morning after dominating the race from the start.
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November 7, 2025
On Friday, U.S. Secretary Pete Hegseth will unveil major changes in the way the Pentagon buys weapons. This will allow the military to acquire technology more quickly as global threats grow. Hegseth will address industry leaders, military officers…
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November 6, 2025
After a close duel, Tom Laperche of France and Franck Chammas from Normandie won the ULTIM division in the Transat Cafe L'Or Le Havre Normandie 202025. The two crossed the finish in Fort-de-France Bay on Wednesday at 22:13.58 local time, aboard SVR-Lazartigue.
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November 6, 2025
Legal sources confirmed on Thursday that a Greek prosecutor had extended charges against four additional senior coast guard officers in connection with one of the Mediterranean’s worst accidents: a shipwreck from 2023, which saw hundreds of people drown off the southwest town of Pylos.
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November 6, 2025
World Sailing has named two offshore sailing stars its top achievers. French cancer survivor Charlie Dalin, and Swiss record-breaker Justine mettraux have won the prestigious Rolex World Sailor of the year awards in Ireland's Dun Laoghaire.
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November 6, 2025
Uralchem Group, a Russian fertiliser manufacturer, announced on Thursday it had shipped 30,000 tons of potash as humanitarian aid to Bangladesh. The United Nations World Food Programme, which chartered the vessel, facilitated the delivery of the fertiliser, previously stored in Latvia.
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November 6, 2025
Philly Shipyard, owned by South Korea in the United States, does not have the capacity to build ships at the moment. Kim Min-seok, the Prime Minister of South Korea, said this on Thursday at a hearing in parliament. Donald Trump, the U.S. president, wrote on Twitter last week about his remarks.
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November 6, 2025
Ambrey, a maritime security company, reported on Thursday pirates had boarded a tanker flying the Malta flag off the coast of Somalia. Ambrey, in a statement, said that pirates had approached the tanker on a skiff. They then opened fire. The pirates operated from a hijacked Iranian flagged dhow.
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November 6, 2025
Shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk reported a third-quarter operating result above expectations on Thursday and increased its lower end of the full-year profit outlook. Maersk reported that its underlying earnings, before interest, taxes, depreciation…
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November 5, 2025
The Turkish conglomerate Borusan Yatirim announced in a Wednesday stock exchange filing that France's CEVA Logistics had completed the acquisition of Turkish logistic provider Borusan Tedarik for $383m from Borusan Yatirim. CEVA of Marseille…
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November 3, 2025
Scientists in Greece say that heavy maritime traffic and overtourism in the Mediterranean region are contributing to the pollution of the azure waters in Greece. They have placed thousands of mussels to detect microplastics on the seabed. Since decades…
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November 3, 2025
According to preliminary data from Kpler, OilX and Kpler, India's crude imports from Russia should have increased slightly from the previous month, despite pressure from Washington. Kpler data shows that India's Russian crude oil imports increased to 1.48 million barrels a day (bpd)…
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November 1, 2025
Paddle UK has announced that British canoeist Kurts Adam Rozentals was given a suspension of two years and removed from the Olympic program after posting a video explicit on Instagram, and misinforming the media about the reason for his original ban.
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October 30, 2025
Two analytics firms report that a sanctioned LNG tanker picked up a cargo at a Russian export terminal, which was also subject to Western restrictions. The transfer appears to be the very first STS of Russian LNG sanctioned by the West, despite…
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October 30, 2025
French mining group Eramet has lowered its capital expenditure target for this fiscal year. It announced that it will announce more measures in December to combat declining results and increasing debt at the nickel-and-manganese producer. In a third quarter sales report…
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October 29, 2025
New Zealand announced on Thursday expanded sanctions against Russia's shadow fleet and oil industry during a meeting with the Nordic five foreign ministers. Winston Peters, New Zealand's foreign minister, said in a press release that New Zealand sanctioned 65 more shadow fleet vessels from Belarus…
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October 29, 2025
Italy warned against traveling to Mali on Wednesday due to security concerns. The government is under increasing pressure by insurgents linked to al Qaeda, who are imposing a blockade of fuel. The Italian Foreign Ministry has urged Italian nationals in Mali to leave as soon as they can.
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October 29, 2025
Italy warned against traveling to Mali on Wednesday due to security concerns. The government is under increasing pressure by insurgents linked to al Qaeda, who are imposing a blockade of fuel. The Italian Foreign Ministry has urged Italian nationals in Mali to leave as soon as they can.
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October 28, 2025
A local branch of the Red Crescent said that on Tuesday, bodies of 18 migrants who drowned when their boat capsized southwest of Tripoli in Libya were recovered, while more than 90 survivors were saved. The Red Crescent in Sabratha (a coastal…
