When a patient fills a prescription at a pharmacy close to home, the transaction is the last part of a tightly controlled supply chain that starts on the other side of the world. In recent months, a ...

In recent decades, global shipping—carrier of 80 per cent of world trade—has faced numerous threats that challenge the long-established right to freedom of navigation for all merchant ships. Piracy, ...

Attacks on two dozen ships since November are forcing shipping lines to figure out whether and when to skip the Suez Canal and send vessels on longer voyages around Africa. By Peter Eavis and Keith ...

The route has allowed Kyiv to revive exports of grain and other goods across the Black Sea despite Russia’s wartime threats to commercial shipping. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg Ukraine has stepped up its use ...