As U.S economic sanctions have widened, and tracking software has become more common, some cargo ships have found new ways to go unnoticed. One increasingly common approach is "spoofing," or using the ...

The tracking systems merchant vessels rely on to navigate their routes are the same ones Houthi groups use to target them. But turning off the systems isn't a simple solution. “The vast bulk of the ...

An ongoing disinformation campaign is causing a worldwide ship location and navigation system to falsely identify the whereabouts of western warships. The Automatic Identification System (AIS) is ...

Some ships traveling through the Red Sea are now turning off their tracking systems to avoid being attacked by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels, a report says. The evasive maneuvers come as shippers, ...

SINCE OPENING in 1869 the Suez Canal has transformed trade between Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Last year around 24,000 vessels took the passage linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas, carrying ...

A United States special mission vessel—designed to monitor missile launches—was spotted underway off China's coast in the Yellow Sea last month, according to ship-tracking data.

The Pentagon and US intelligence agencies are closely tracking two Iranian ships that Tehran claims are bound for Venezuela. At the Pentagon and other agencies, officials said that at the moment the ...

There has been much buzz about the warming planet’s melting Arctic region opening shipping routes and lengthening travel seasons in ocean passageways that ice once blocked. Expanded fishing, trade and ...

Understanding when and where ships are entering areas of Arctic sea ice can help elucidate the potential impacts of vessel traffic in the region. There has been much buzz about the warming planet's ...