On this day in 1907, the steamship Larchmont collided with the coal schooner Harry Knowlton in the worst maritime disaster in ...

As TPG's cruise team lead, Gene Sloan oversees the site's cruise content and also writes many of TPG's main cruise guides. He has spent nearly 30 years writing about cruise ships and cruising, and he ...

Analysis: A century ago, the wealthy borough of Waihi was the end of the line for the North Island main trunk. Coal trains would trundle from Paeroa, over three bridges and through a kilometre-long ...

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a car with fifty tons of coal is seized by the equipment, lifted and swung out over the vessel, emptied of its contents in a few seconds and returned to the tracks. Of this great steamship company ...

New research shows grain yields critical to India's food security are dragged down 10% or more in many parts of the country by nitrogen dioxide pollution from power stations that run on coal.

A southern Alberta group against a proposed coal mine in the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies kicked off a campaign Tuesday to garner signatures for an official petition members plan to present to ...

I've traveled all over the world on ships, from small river cruises to megaships with thousands of passengers. For years, I'd heard horror stories of passengers getting left behind, but I never ...

The world of shipping is about to change. The world’s longest wind-powered cargo ship was recently launched in Tuzla port of Turkey. Dubbed Neoliner Origin, the 450-foot (136-meter) vessel ...

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is a director of The Kinney Steamship Company and secretary and director of The Eastern Coal Dock Company. All of these transportation companies are actively operating upon the Great Lakes ...