Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to make landfall on late Friday or early Saturday, forcing the closure of ports in Brisbane, where the ships are ... to weather the storm at sea or divert ...

A crackdown on sulfur in ship fuel is linked to a steep drop in thunderclouds in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea.

The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel cargo ships ... in sinking But it’s rare to see such gales form in August, Hopkins said. A National Weather Service report called the storm ...