White House Rolls Back Fishing Ban in Three Pacific Nat'l Monuments

Published Jun 11, 2026 10:23 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Trump administration has reopened three more marine national monument areas to commercial fishing, reversing previous administ...

Philippines Raise Alarm Over New Chinese Structures at Scarborough Shoal

Published Jun 11, 2026 9:41 PM by The Maritime Executive

China's government has a long history of expanding its physical footprint in the Philippine exclusive economic zone, from small bu...

Published Jun 11, 2026 6:38 PM by The Maritime Executive

The U.S. Coast Guard has selected the Alaskan ports of Kodiak and Seward as the first homeports for its new fleet of Arctic Securi...

Published Jun 11, 2026 6:11 PM by The Maritime Executive

On June 10, Coast Guard Sector San Juan detained a stowaway and seized hundreds of kilos of cocaine aboard a barge off the coast o...

Published Jun 11, 2026 12:33 PM by The Maritime Executive

John Healey, the British Defence Minister, has resigned in protest at the UK government’s failure to fund the long-awaited Defence...

Published Jun 10, 2026 9:36 PM by The Maritime Executive

Oil futures ticked up Thursday morning as Iran and the United States traded strikes and counterstrikes, with renewed threats of vi...

Published Jun 10, 2026 2:25 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Royal Navy is facing multiple operational readiness issues, which are impacting capability across what remains of a fleet much...

Published Jun 9, 2026 10:29 PM by The Maritime Executive

The U.S. Navy is investigating a fatal shooting aboard the future USS John F. Kennedy, the second Ford-class supercarrier. At abou...

Published Jun 9, 2026 3:25 PM by The Maritime Executive

The European Union has launched a coordinated campaign to crack down on vessels that are false-flagged, fraudulently certified, or...

Published Jun 8, 2026 9:53 PM by The Maritime Executive

Following the Trump administration's decision to remove the global ocean sensor network run by the NSF/Woods Hole's Ocean Observat...