Maritime transport (or ocean transport) or more generally waterborne transport, is the transport of people (passengers) or goods (cargo) via waterways. Freight transport by sea has been widely used throughout recorded history. The advent of aviation has
A new month of vessel audits has passed and we would like to take this opportunity to present and recognise an impressive lineup of vessel crews, who have shown great passion and dedication in keeping their vessel crew going at sea... Read...
In the South China Sea, there are two distinct disputes over territo- rial sovereignty. The first is a bilateral dispute between China and Vietnam over the sovereignty of the Paracel Islands, which China has controlled completely since 1974.3 The second is a multi- lateral dispute over the ...
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China lodged serious representations to the Philippine side on its intruding vessels into the adjacent waters of Ren'ai Jiao, and once again urges the Philippines to stop maritime infringement and provocation, foreign ministry spo...
The Philippine Navy has commissioned four vessels into the Sealift Amphibious Force (SAF), a flotilla of ships whose main function is rapid deployment of ground combat elements – mainly those of the Philippine Marine Corps – and their supporting units to coastal areas. As the Philippines is an...
Instead of continuing in the wrong direction, the Philippine side should return to the right path as soon as possible, with properly handling and managing the current maritime situation as a top priority, he said. Being neighbors separated by a strip of water, China and the Philippines should ...
Despite the influx of large numbers of mainlanders after 1950—particularly in the 1970s, when young Chinese from southern Guangdong were assigned to state farms to help develop Hainan, and since the 1980s, when thousands more have arrived to take advantage of the economic opportunities offered—...
Chinese scholars urged to ‘construct narratives’ to defend South China Sea claim During the Song dynasty (960–1279), the island was placed under the administration of what was then Guangxi province (now an autonomous region). In the 12th and 13th centuries, the Chinese began settling in ...
west coast of Africa in an attempt to repeat the journey, but was forced to give up. On the voyages of Eudoxus or shortly afterwards (by 90BCE), a Greek named Hippalus started to sail to India with the monsoon winds and the open sea, rather than coast-hugging. Between 110 and 51BC...