A seafarer's salary in thousands of dollars is attractive to many Filipinos. But it comes with great cost — loneliness, ...

AP investigative reporter Helen Wieffering built on her previous reporting experience to tell the story of a seafarer stranded on an abandoned ship, part of a growing global crisis in which shipowners ...

Abandoned ships at sea have emerged as a serious maritime industry crisis, creating both navigational hazards and humanitarian concerns. Over recent years, hundreds of vessels have been left to ...

Hello, Oklahoma. Welcome to Gallery America. I'm Jonathan Thompson. Today we're at some old abandoned stuff. Places like this are built heritage. They're a snapshot of what America was like when ...

A decade-old amendment to the Maritime Labor Convention ... Panama, Palau and Tanzania each registered dozens of the ships reported as abandoned in 2024. The yearslong rise in abandonment cases ...

More ships than ever are abandoned around the world by their owners, according to the United Nations' labor and maritime organizations, leaving thousands of workers stuck on board without pay or ...

A decade-old amendment to the Maritime Labor Convention signed ... Panama, Palau and Tanzania each registered dozens of the ships reported as abandoned in 2024. The yearslong rise in abandonment cases ...

Governments and organizations like Meldrum’s can report abandoned ships to the U.N., which verifies ... according to U.N. guidelines. A decade-old amendment to the Maritime Labor Convention ...