Here are answers to questions about these ships, including why the shipping industry wants them, and the challenges they face ...

A Russian cargo ship, the Ursa Major, sank off the coast of Cartagena, Spain, in December 2024 under mysterious circumstances ...

The U.S. Navy has some of the most advanced nuclear submarines in the world. Its newest addition is named after an important ...

Ministers have been urged to support the rollout of nuclear-powered ships that could halve the time it takes to move freight ...

A Russian cargo ship that sank to the bottom of the Mediterranean under unusual circumstances last year is believed to have ...

The commercial shipping industry is chasing a novel carbon-free propulsion technology as it pursues a lofty climate goal: nuclear power. Shipping accounts for more planet-warming greenhouse gas ...

Hughes was going to do the unthinkable with it: mine manganese nodules right from the ocean floor. So, when the Glomar sailed ...

As countries around the world try to tamp down emissions (well, some of them, anyway), a major target for improvement is the shipping industry. Ships produce 3% of all the world's emissions per year, ...

China has designed the world’s first large containership with a nuclear Molten Salt reactor. The design was developed by Jiangnan Shipbuilding, a division of the Chinese state-owned China State ...

Deep inside the Port of Baltimore, past stacks of shipping containers and a plant that makes wallboard, sits the world's first, and only, nuclear-powered cruise ship – the NS Savannah. The Savannah is ...