Urgent Alert After Chinese Bulker Issues Distress Signal

Published Jan 30, 2026 3:50 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Philippine Coast Guard issued an urgent alert to all vessels on Friday, January 30, after it received a distress call from a C...

AMTI: China Coast Guard Focuses its Patrols on Scarborough Shoal

Published Jan 29, 2026 9:20 PM by The Maritime Executive

Scarborough Shoal has been a flash point for tensions between the Philippines and China since 2012, when Chinese forces occupied t...

Published Jan 29, 2026 8:12 PM by The Maritime Executive

The European Union's top energy official is actively looking to source LNG from outside of the United States, the EU's biggest sup...

Published Jan 29, 2026 7:53 PM by The Maritime Executive

The U.S. has released one of the shadow fleet tankers that it seized in the Caribbean over the past month, Secretary of State Marc...

Published Jan 29, 2026 7:35 PM by The Maritime Executive

Recently appointed Commissioner Laura DiBella has been designated as the next Chair of the Federal Maritime Commission by Donald T...

Published Jan 29, 2026 3:30 PM by The Maritime Executive

British media is abuzz with reports that a “suspicious” Russian cargo ship was chased out of the Bristol Channel. The ship had rep...

Published Jan 29, 2026 3:13 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Security Service of Ukraine, the nation's main counterintelligence division, has arrested a servicemember who was allegedly pl...

Published Jan 29, 2026 10:41 AM by The Maritime Executive

A case that is bound to have far-reaching ramifications on how European countries respond to search and rescue operations of migra...

Published Jan 28, 2026 11:20 PM by The Maritime Executive

Last weekend, a U.S. Navy destroyer conducted a joint drill with Philippine forces near Scarborough Shoal, a Chinese-occupied reef...

Published Jan 28, 2026 9:43 PM by The Maritime Executive

President Trump has told an audience that "there's another beautiful armada floating beautifully toward Iran right now." Some comm...