China Upgrades Djibouti Naval Base as an Intelligence Site

Published Sep 18, 2026 9:25 AM by The Maritime Executive

China has recently enhanced the signals communication array at its base for the People’s Liberation Army (Navy) in Djibouti. An in...

Indonesia Takes Delivery of a "Free" Aircraft Carrier

Published Sep 17, 2026 10:06 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Indonesian Navy is giving new life to Italy's first aircraft carrier, the 1985-built ITS Giuseppe Garibaldi, which arrived in...

Published Sep 17, 2026 10:01 PM by The Maritime Executive

The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control has identified and sanctioned an Iranian bitcoin exchange linked to the "Hormu...

Published Sep 17, 2026 8:41 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Turkish government has formulated a draft peace plan that proposes to bring an end to the Russian and Ukrainian maritime strik...

Published Sep 17, 2026 6:48 PM by The Maritime Executive

Commanders from the Finnish and Swedish navies met on Thursday, September 17, reaching key agreements about efforts to enhance sec...

Published Sep 17, 2026 5:49 PM by The Maritime Executive

More than 120 people disappeared when the lost ferry Virgo Transport 8 capsized on September 13 in the Java Sea, and an investigat...

Published Sep 17, 2026 1:54 PM by The Maritime Executive

A number of geospatial intelligence firms have tracked the departure of a Russian convoy from the Baltiysk naval base in the Kalin...

Published Sep 17, 2026 1:16 PM by The Maritime Executive

Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected India’s version of the incident on Wednesday when the two nations’ warships made c...

Published Sep 17, 2026 12:30 PM by The Maritime Executive

Overnight Wednesday, Russian and Ukrainian forces traded drone strikes against each others' shipping in the Black Sea. On one Ukra...

Published Sep 16, 2026 10:42 PM by The Maritime Executive

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed a measure to overturn California's Commercial Harbor Craft emissions rule. If al...