Cargo ship News

Due to high seas in the splashdown zone, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft has to remain in orbit for at least one more day before splashing down into the Pacific Ocean.

Tybee Island - It's early December and there are sunny skies over, and temperatures in the seventies on, the beautiful coastal Georgia town of Tybee Island.

Santiago - The cargo ship Ocean Breeze, registered in Hong Kong, with a crew of 24 people, run aground this morning near the port of San Antonio, Chile, because of high winds and strong tidal waves currently affecting the Chilean coast.

The HTV-3, also known as Kounotori3, space freighter successfully docked with the International Space Station on July 27.

The owners of a Panamanian-registered cargo ship that ran aground off the coast of Sarangani province in the Philippines may be asked to pay at least $1 million for damaging the reef in a protected area of the country.

A North Korean cargo ship was hijacked by a group of Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. It is unknown of the number of crew members on board.

Russia says it has found the missing Arctic Sea and rescued its crew. The ship was found early on Monday, 300 nautical miles off the Cape Verde Islands.

Finnish police have issued a statement in which they say that a ransom demand has been received by the Arctic Sea's Finnish owners, Solchart Management. The ship has been missing for three weeks despite intensive searches by several countries.

That is one of the two main scenarios being considered during the hunt for the Arctic Sea cargo ship, which disappeared after leaving the English Channel. The other scenario centres upon a possible commercial dispute. The search continues meanwhile.

Tensions continue to rise between North Korea and the United Nations as a U.S. warship positions itself for possible intercept of a North Korean vessel suspected of carrying illicit materials.

The U.S. Navy is tracking a possible North Korean nuclear shipment. A North Korean cargo ship is suspected up carrying illegal weapons, equipment or nuclear fissile material.

the USS Bainbridge is rushing to rescue the captain of the Maersk Alabama, a US merchant marine cargo ship with 20 US citizens on board. He's held hostage by Somalian pirates on a lifeboat near the ship after the crew fought back and captured one pirate.

Fuel oil from the damaged cargo ship Pacific Adventurer has washed up on beaches along the eastern side of Moreton Island off Brisbane.

Somali pirates have captured an Egyptian cargo ship with 28 crew members aboard. The ship, the Blue Star was carrying fertilizer.

A newly built cargo vessel ,the 132m long Multi Purpose Heavy Lift Carrier MS “Beluga SkySails” of the Bremen-based Beluga Shipping is powered by a kite and will travel across the Atlantic today.

We not talking a small 30 or 40 meter ship here, it's a 67 meter long (220-foot), 4,392-dead weight tonnage (dwt), refrigerated cargo ship. Too make thing even more odd the ship wasn't even in working order.

Two cargo ships collided in the East China Sea.

Interesting use of a very old idea. I do have to wonder how many would be needed to make it effective with a large cargo ship, surely one Sail would not do it and I wonder what would happen in bad weather were they not to get the sail down in time...