Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 will travel coast-to-coast in commemoration of the semiquincentennial.

Ever wondered what fuel large ships use to travel across oceans for weeks? Most commercial vessels rely on Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO), commonly called bunker fuel, a thick petroleum residue that powers the ...

A surge of attacks on oil tankers, cargo ships, and bulk carriers in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf has upended global energy flow. As the Iran-US-Israel conflict escalates in West Asia, shippi ...

President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israel strikes attack targeting military and government sites, officials said. Iranian state ...

Before the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, Washington assembled its largest force and some of its most powerful weaponry in the Middle East in decades.

Actor Robert Downey Jr. has been named the godparent of the Disney Adventure, the newest and largest ship in the cruise line’s fleet, with capacity for 6,700 passengers. The 208,000-gross-ton vessel, ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The world's largest steam engine will spend a little more time in its old home than initially advertised. Union Pacific on Tuesday unveiled dozens of more stops that the Big Boy No.

Modern cruise ships are among the largest moving structures on Earth, functioning more like small cities than vessels. The biggest ships carry 5,000 to 7,000 passengers plus thousands of crew, along ...

LONDON/SINGAPORE, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The shipping industry's biggest players are shrugging off Trump administration opposition to a global carbon price and are forging ahead with billions of dollars ...

A.P. Moller-Maersk (AMKBY) (AMKBF) said Monday it signed an order for eight large container vessels to be built by China's New Times Shipbuilding, as the shipping giant continues its long-running ...

From massive stone edifices like the pyramids in Egypt and the Great Wall in China to the high-tech (and incredibly expensive) International Space Station zipping overhead in low-Earth orbit, humanity ...

When we talk about alternative fuels, you probably think of things like hydrogen fuel cells or the various biofuels that corporations still pretend are something other than a distraction. Maybe ...