ROTA, Spain — The American ship MV Cape Ray arrived Thursday at the Spanish naval base of Rota for crew rest and refueling ahead of an unprecedented mission to collect and destroy highly toxic ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Salvage experts failed to tow a fire-stricken container ship carrying chemicals out to sea and it started to sink Wednesday off Sri Lanka's main port, raising fears of a ...

Nduna Maritime, a subsidiary of the Mnambithi Group, and the integrated chemicals and energy company Sasol have invested in South Africa's first locally-owned chemical tanker with a funding agreement ...

Principal Maritime Management LLC (PMM) of Southport, Connecticut, a shipping company owned by affiliates of Apollo Global Management LLC, informs of its new business in the stainless steel chemical ...

PORTSMOUTH, Virginia (Reuters) - The U.S.-owned cargo ship with the capability to destroy the nastiest of Syria's chemical weapons will depart for the Mediterranean in about two weeks, officials said ...

DEER PARK, Texas – After more than 50 hours of fighting the massive chemical fire that broke out at the Shell Chemical Plant in Deer Park, officials said the fire was finally extinguished Sunday night ...

Communities near petrochemical plants along the ship channel have long suffered from elevated rates of asthma, cancer and ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates on Tuesday freed a Spanish tuna fishing boat hijacked last month and said a $3.5 million (2.1 million pound) ransom had been paid for the vessel and its crew. The ...

About 300 Houston Ship Channel-area workers were evacuated and nearby residents were told to stay indoors this afternoon after a fire broke out at Dow's Haltermann chemical plant. A dozen or so people ...

NAIROBI, Kenya – NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Pirates hijacked a ship carrying a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze early Monday off the northern tip of Somalia and took the 19 Chinese sailors onboard ...

We have an update on the spill that shut down part of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel on Saturday. According to responders with Flint Hills, the chemical that leaked has been identified as Paraxylene, ...

A leading British scientist is among three people who were killed in a deadly explosion onboard a cargo ship.