The Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO), the shipping guild representing owners, has called for greater, pro-active zeal in tackling piracy in the Gulf of Aden. BIMCO President Robert Lorenz-Meyer said that instead of just catching and releasing pirates, they should be prosecuted. To d
Austal announces an expansion of its European service presence with the establishment of a maintenance hub on the Strait of Gibraltar. Based in Southern Spain and Northern Morocco, the new operations will support the extensive fleet of Austal and non-Austal high speed craft currently operating on th
The Dibrugarh administration today decided to dredge the Brahmaputra and remove sandbars to coax the river into taking its original course, five days after the waters began washing away chunks of soil from Nagagholee. The dredging, however, is a long-term solution. A team, led by Dibrugarh deputy co
SBM Offshore N.V. is pleased to announce that its subsidiary company SBM-GustoMSC has signed a contract with Dubai based Lamprell Energy for the design supply of two windmill installation jack-up vessels. Additionally SBM-GustoMSC received orders from the yard for the supply of the innovative contin
LR-Fairplay’s Daily Newbuilding News says Brazil’s development bank BNDES has announced that it will pay for building a US$1 billion shipyard in Venezuela. LR-Fairplay said the deal was discussed by Venezuela President Hugo Chavez and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva during talks in Bra
The Maharashtra government will now focus more on the ports and maritime sector to attract investments and develop the state’s more than 700-km coastline, the Chief Minister, Mr Ashok Chavan, said. He was speaking at the inaugural session of a conference on ‘Ports of Maharashtra – Gateway to India’,
POLITICIANS from all the major parties today give their backing the Yorkshire Post campaign to create a manufacturing hub for wind turbines… [mappress] Source: yorkshirepost, May 03, 2010;
Nii Odametey, the Chief Fisherman of the Tema Canoe Beach, has called for the dredging of the canoe basin that serves as landing base for… [mappress] Source: businessghana, May 3, 2010;
SAUGATUCK — A deposit of sand and silt — called a shoal — has built up at the mouth of the Kalamazoo River in Saugatuck shrinking the… [mappress] Source: mlive, May 3, 2010;
Circumstances are aligning to help kick start a proposed $1 billion development along the Missouri River in St. Charles, say officials with… [mappress] Source: suburbanjournals, May 3, 2010;
As part of a series of lectures on management development organized by DCI, Prof. M. V. R. Raju, Head, Faculty of Psychology, Department… [mappress] Source: dci, May 3, 2010
After nine agonizing years of political battles, the first offshore wind farm to be built in the United States has finally been approved. [mappress] Source: kansascity, May 01, 2010;
A scheme to build up to 383 wind turbines in two sites off the north Norfolk coast is to come under scrutiny in a nautical navigational… [mappress] Source: fakenhamtimes, March 01, 2010;
The meetings are scheduled for Tuesday night in Muskegon and Thursday night in Ludington.
