The families of four victims of the deadly dive boat fire off the coast of Southern California sued the vessel’s owners in federal court Monday, claiming a pattern of poor safety practices and a skirting of Coast Guard rules led to deadly operating conditions.
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Three navy vessels that Moscow seized last year and handed back to Ukraine have arrived at a Ukrainian port, though Kiev said they were stripped of some equipment.
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The United States is giving Vietnam’s coast guard a second cutter vessel, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Wednesday, vowing to maintain a routine military presence in the flashpoint South China Sea.
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A state agency cannot make the federal government dredge two vital San Francisco Bay channels more frequently, a federal judge ruled Monday, despite arguments that less dredging could increase the risk of a container ship accident or oil spill.
Read moreGrousing over the millions in tax revenue lost to international cigarette smuggling, New York City and the state of California brought a federal complaint Tuesday that would hold mail authorities liable.
Read moreFees paid by China to the United States and other countries to deliver packages will nearly triple through 2025 under an agreement by the global postal union following complaints by Washington, the Chinese post office said Tuesday.
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Two missiles struck an Iranian tanker traveling through the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia on Friday, Iranian officials said, the latest incident in the region amid months of heightened tensions between Tehran and the United States.
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The Trump administration is blocking shipments from a Chinese company making baby pajamas sold at Costco warehouses after the foreign manufacturer was accused of forcing ethnic minorities locked in an internment camp to sew clothes against their will.
Read moreBNSF Railway, Norfolk Southern Railway, CST Transportation and Union Pacific Railroad have been sued 29 times this week, around the country, in antitrust complaints accusing them of fixing prices on freight charges.
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A British-flagged oil tanker held by Iran since July was released Friday and was heading toward the United Arab Emirates, the company that owns the vessel said.
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A shareholder derivative action accuses FedEx of failing to disclose the extent of the damage done by a June 2017 cyberattack against international delivery service company TNT Express, which FedEx acquired a year before.
Read moreThe effects of President Donald Trump’s standoff with China could soon be coming to a post office near you — and higher shipping rates for some types of mail are the likely outcome.
Read moreAccusing them of helping North Korea’s illegal ship-to-ship transfers to circumvent U.N. sanctions on Pyongyang petroleum, the United States announced penalties Friday against multiple firms and individuals in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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Iran on Monday announced that the 2.1 million barrels of crude aboard an Iranian oil tanker pursued by the U.S. has been sold to an unnamed buyer as the ship, at the center of a crisis roiling the region, continued its voyage in the Mediterranean Sea.
Read moreAn Iranian tanker that has sparked a diplomatic row pitting Tehran against Washington and London is too big to dock in Greece, the country’s junior foreign minister said Wednesday.
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China on Wednesday blasted a huge planned U.S. arms shipment to Taiwan and threatened to sanction firms involved in the sale of F-16 fighter jets, stepping up a trade war that is stressing world financial markets.
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Federal authorities have arrested a man charged in a scheme to ship prohibited metals-processing machines to Iran in violation of sanctions imposed by the United States.
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Wildlife conservationists sued federal ocean management agencies Monday in an effort to spur protections for endangered killer whales whose foraging habits off the Pacific Northwest coast have been disrupted by noise from ships and other vessels.
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An Iranian oil tanker the United States has accused of skirting sanctions against Syria has set sail from Gibralter, after the U.S. was unsuccessful in its efforts to keep the ship in port over the weekend.
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