At Pier 17 in the South Street Seaport, New Yorkers can find the world’s largest cargo sailboat, Grain de Sail ll. The wind-powered ship arrived in New York on Wednesday with 350 tons of goods.

Sea weather was fair more than a week after the 90-foot sailing schooner De Gallant departed Santa Marta, Colombia for Europe carrying a cargo of coffee, cocoa and cane sugar. But tragedy loomed on ...

SAINT-MALO, France — Had he continued working aboard fuel-powered cargo ships, Yann Jourdan reckons he'd be earning perhaps four times what he now gets as captain of a sailboat that instead uses the ...

A cargo of an iron ore subject to curbs by China’s state buyer is now en route to Malaysia after failing to find a buyer in its traditional market.

SAINT-MALO, France (AP) — Had he continued working aboard fuel-powered cargo ships, Yann Jourdan reckons he'd be earning perhaps four times what he now gets as captain of a sailboat that instead uses ...

Find out more about our Reverse Course series here. If you need to move a dishwasher or a new TV from a factory in Asia to a store in California, a container ship is the cheapest way to do it. These ...

This awe-inspiring ship is the first of its kind and was dubbed "the airplane of the seas" for good reasons. Designed and built in France, the Vela trimaran is gearing up to begin transporting ...

A French cooperative has finalized a construction order for the world’s first sail-powered containership. Windcoop has turned Turkey’s RMK Marine to build the first open-hatch, sail-powered cargo ship ...