The scrappy oil tanker waited to load fuel at a dilapidated jetty projecting from a giant Venezuelan refinery on a December morning. A string of abandoned ships listed in the surrounding turquoise ...

The global positioning system (GPS) capabilities of cargo ships, oil tankers and other vessels stuck in the Middle East because of the widening war are likely worse than those in your cell phone.

Within 24 hours of the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, ships in the region’s waters found their navigation systems had gone haywire, erroneously indicating that the vessels were at airports, a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Anna Raymaker, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) The war in Iran has ...

Seafarers trapped in the Persian Gulf said that intense electronic interference in the region in recent hours had rendered ...

Vessels in the Middle East -- here, a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz -- are battling difficulties with their outdated GPS capabilities - Copyright AFP/File ...