The Moynaq Ship Graveyard is literally a ghost town in the middle of the desert. It was once a busy Soviet fishing port on the Aral Sea - once one of the four largest lakes in the world - but ...

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 ...

Governments and organizations like Meldrum’s can report abandoned ships to the U.N., which verifies the basic facts and petitions the owner and relevant authorities to find a resolution.