No ship of such magnitude has been built since. In the late 1970s, Tokyo-based Sumitomo Heavy Industries was commissioned by a Greek businessman to construct a massive supertanker. However ...

British police on Tuesday arrested the captain of a cargo ship on suspicion of manslaughter as they searched for answers about why it hit a tanker transporting jet fuel for the U.S. military off ...

A U.S.-flagged tanker carrying jet fuel was struck by a cargo ship in the North Sea off the coast of eastern England on Monday, triggering multiple explosions, setting both vessels on fire and ...

The new U.S. sanctions mean an estimated 35% of 669 shadow fleet tankers involved in shipping Russian, Venezuelan and Iranian oil have been hit with sanctions by either the U.S., the U.K. or ...

An oil tanker and cargo ship collided in the North Sea off the coast of East Yorkshire on Monday morning, forcing crew members to abandon ship. Both vessels burst into flames after the crash about ...

In March 1967, the SS Torrey Canyon supertanker ran aground on rocks between ... the MV Stena Immaculate and Portuguese container ship the MV Solong off the Yorkshire coast, there are fears ...

An oil tanker and a cargo ship collided in the North Sea off the UK coast on Monday, triggering a major rescue mission. UK authorities launched lifeboats and firefighting vessels to the scene some ...

The ship was holding about 140,000 barrels of ... There have also been significantly larger UK spills in the past. In 1967, the supertanker Torrey Canyon ran aground and leaked more than 119,000 ...

According to the ship tracking site MarineTraffic, the Stena Immaculate, which had been chartered by the United States military to bring Jet-A1 fuel to the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command ...