Ports are closing. Farmers are moving hogs to high ground. Dealers are moving cars into service bays for refuge. And up to 3 million energy customers in North and South Carolina could lose power for weeks.
Read moreHundreds of workers from two major shipyards are protesting in the Croatian capital of Zagreb over unpaid wages and working conditions.
Read moreDanish shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk said Thursday it will send a cargo vessel through the Russian Arctic for the first time as a result of melting sea ice.
Read moreThe European Commission said Monday that it is contact with a number of member states to identify a country willing to take 141 migrants picked up by a rescue ship, after the French groups operating the ship appealed for a safe port and Italy said Britain should take responsibility.
Read moreA team of marine animal rescuers freed a humpback whale from an anchor line off the coast of Cape Cod, but officials say they are worried the whale’s injuries are life-threatening.
Read moreNorwegian authorities are defending the actions of guards from a German cruise ship that killed a polar bear that had attacked and injured a crew member, saying they at first tried to scare it away.
Read moreItaly dispatched two ships Tuesday to help take 629 migrants stuck off its shores on the days-long voyage to Spain in what is forecast to be bad weather, after the new populist government refused them safe port in a dramatic bid to force Europe to share the burden of unrelenting arrivals.
Read moreItaly’s highest court has rejected a request by a German group to release its migrant rescue boat seized eight months ago by prosecutors investigating allegations that non-governmental organizations colluded with migrant smugglers.
Read moreLabor justice advocates representing dock works along the West Coast filed a discrimination complaint Thursday with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging workers have been systematically denied access to promotions due to gender-based discrimination by employers.
Read moreA trading company claims in a federal complaint that the Liberian company it contracted to ship hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil also tried to smuggle weapons to Yemen, and let Saudi Arabian forces confiscate the oil when it got caught.
Read moreU.S. delivery giant UPS has launched court action against the European Union’s antitrust regulator for blocking a merger with Dutch firm TNT and is seeking $2.14 billion in compensation
Read moreThe European Court of Justice upheld antitrust fines against the railway Deutsche Bahn, Panalpina World Transport, and Schenker.
Read morePresident Donald Trump took aim at the U.S. Postal Service Friday, saying the agency is “losing many billions of dollars a year” and asking why it is “charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages.”
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The owner of the sunken cargo ship El Faro had a weak corporate safety culture that contributed to the vessel’s demise and the deaths of 33 mariners, federal accident investigators said on Tuesday.
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Federal accident investigators on Tuesday will determine the probable cause of the sinking of the cargo ship El Faro, the worst maritime disaster for a U.S.-flagged vessel in decades that resulted in the deaths of 33 mariners.
Read moreWith the holiday shipping frenzy already underway as a cargo airline renegotiates its union contract with pilots, a federal judge is cracking down on a tactic the Teamsters union has allegedly been using to gain unfair leverage.
Read moreA Massachusetts firm that provides supply chain services to the pharma and life sciences industries claims a trade association coerced its members and suppliers to use the organization’s drug shipment tracking system rather than those of competitors.
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