Op-Ed: Three Countries Could Scuttle WTO's Fishing-Subsidy Limit Agreement

Published May 31, 2026 3:12 PM by The Lowy Interpreter

More than 600 million people around the world seek to make their living through fishing or from processing the catch. Most of thos...

Op-Ed: The Jones Act Waiver Is Reshaping More Than Maritime Transportation

Published May 31, 2026 1:47 PM by William P. Doyle

The recent Jones Act waiver debate has largely focused on vessel availability, fuel prices, and emergency logistics. Far less atte...

Published May 30, 2026 4:56 PM by The Maritime Executive

CENTCOM reported on May 30 that U.S. forces had disabled a small cargo ship on May 29 that it asserted had ignored warnings and wa...

Published May 29, 2026 5:56 PM by The Maritime Executive

New Zealand is planning to extend the service life of three aging navy ships that have been the cornerstone of the country’s marit...

Published May 29, 2026 4:14 PM by The Maritime Executive

Listing out his conditions for the ceasefire agreement on social media on Friday, Donald Trump said the U.S. would lift its naval...

Published May 29, 2026 3:15 PM by The Maritime Executive

The United States Treasury and Department of State continued with their efforts of “maximum pressure” with sanctions on Iran as th...

Published May 29, 2026 1:22 PM by The Maritime Executive

The still relatively-new Thai government, reflecting a greater concern than previously over fractious relations with Cambodia, is...

Published May 28, 2026 10:33 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Trump administration has waived the Jones Act for petroleum and fertilizer cargoes from March through mid-August, covering all...

Published May 28, 2026 3:42 PM by The Maritime Executive

In order to open the Strait of Hormuz and obtain some degree of restriction on Iran's nuclear program, the Trump administration ma...

Published May 28, 2026 12:32 PM by The Maritime Executive

After the prospect over the weekend of May 23-24 that a negotiated end to the conflict between Iran and the United States was clos...