USCG Polar Star Marks 50 Years by Aiding Cruise Ship Caught in Pack Ice

Published Jan 23, 2026 4:29 PM by The Maritime Executive

USCG Cutter Polar Star marked 50 years since her commissioning with a special achievement, aiding a luxury expedition cruise ship...

US Treasury Sanctions Tankers in the Name of Helping Iranian Protestors

Published Jan 23, 2026 2:58 PM by The Maritime Executive

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on Friday, January 23, that it is increasi...

Published Jan 22, 2026 6:08 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Defense Forces of Ukraine announced a new strike on the oil and gas terminal at Taman on the peninsula on the eastern side of...

Published Jan 22, 2026 5:16 PM by The Maritime Executive

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and her carrier strike group (CSG) should shortly be arriving in the Gulf of Oman sea area, adding to...

Published Jan 22, 2026 2:21 PM by The Maritime Executive

Open source intelligence sleuths posting on social media are closely monitoring US force deployments into the Middle East region,...

Published Jan 21, 2026 10:57 PM by The Maritime Executive

The crisis-ridden Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) is staring at operational paralysis after a trade union rejected a pay offer for the...

Published Jan 21, 2026 9:13 PM by The Maritime Executive

Finding a lost cocaine cargo at sea might seem like a payday, since landed prices for a kilo are well into the five figures in Nor...

Published Jan 21, 2026 6:47 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Russian military product tanker General Skobelev is a regular sight in the English Channel and Strait of Gibraltar, and she ro...

Published Jan 21, 2026 5:42 PM by The Maritime Executive

A federal jury in West Palm Beach, Florida, found a local fuel supplier guilty of orchestrating a scheme to defraud the U.S. of ov...

Published Jan 21, 2026 2:27 PM by The Maritime Executive

French authorities reported a record cocaine seizure in the waters of French Polynesia as part of an increased effort to intercept...