While flying across the Atlantic Ocean just takes a matter of hours, a cargo ship moving from one end to the other can take a ...

The multi-purpose fleet of single and 'tweendeck general cargo ships is surprisingly large — numbering nearly 17,000 vessels totaling about 80 million dwt — and is estimated to carry more than ...

A port official said he was told the North Sea collision produced "a massive fireball" and the cargo ship's owner said one crew member was missing.

"The International Longshore Association covering ports from ... knowing that this could be a possibility." Right now, no cargo ship that normally docks in East or Gulf coast ports has been ...