Kenyan fisherman are perhaps the only people in the world who have reason to be grateful to Somali pirates – they keep away illegal fishing boats. In past years, illegal commercial trawlers parked off Somalia’s coast and scooped up the ocean’s contents. Now, fishermen on the northern coast of neighb
Wärtsilä has signed a three-year training contract with its long-time customer Wagenborg Shipping of the Netherlands. The agreement covers the training of more than 830 of the shipping company’s crew members, and will be held at Wärtsilä Land & Sea Academy training centres. The training provided by
An optimised propeller from MAN Diesel has helped the Scandlines passenger ferry, the M/V Sassnitz, achieve increased efficiency of 12% on its daily sail between Trelleborg, Sweden and Sassnitz, Germany. Scandlines is one of Europe’s largest ferry companies, a result of the fusion between the larges
Costa Deliziosa, Costa Cruises’ newest ships, will be named in Dubai on Feb. 23 in an event organized by the Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) together with Costa. The naming ceremony will take place during the ship’s Grand Inaugural cruise, departing from Savona (Italy) on F
Korean ship makers have had a positive start to the beginning of the year with a series of new orders, after suffering a huge slump in 2009. STX Offshore & Shipbuilding said Monday it has won a $130 million order for four bulk ships from Turkish shipping firm Densa. The vessels will be constructed i
Dry bulk market started 2010 exactly as it began back at the beginning of 2009, with a bullish stance with renewed cargo interest. As a result, the Baltic Dry Index (BDI), a benchmark which tracks the cost of hauling commodities like iron ore and coal in dry bulk carriers, has risen by 8.8% or 265 [
Van Oord has been awarded a contract for the deepening of the harbour at Norrköping in Sweden. The contract has a value of some Euros 19 million and the client is the Swedish Maritime Authority. Execution of the project will start in April 2010 and the work will take approximately six months to comp
Inmarsat, the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services, announced today that it has activated the 5,000th FleetBroadband terminal. This figure represents commercially active SIM cards passing operational traffic. FleetBroadband, launched in November 2007, continues to take
Illegal activities: Enforcement officers inspecting the barge that was detained off the coast of Penggerang on Saturday. PENGGERANG: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency has detained a tugboat and barge for allegedly dumping dredging silt at an unauthorised area here. [mappress] Source: Star, J
The go-ahead has been given for a major expansion of offshore wind power in the seas around Scotland. The Crown Estate, a UK government agency, has granted offshore wind rights for energy companies in the Moray Firth and the Firth of Forth. It is believed the development could lead to 1,000 new turb
The Jacksonville Harbor Phase III project provides for the deepening of the ship channel from Station 6+53.19 of Cut-50 to Station 65+00 of Terminal Channel to a depth of 40 feet and an expansion of the Chaseville Widener by 100 to 200 feet. [mappress] More info: fbo.gov
INDIALANTIC — Hurricane Wilma, tropical storms Fay and Noel, and a few Nor’easters stole the sand that lures tourists here. [mappress] Source: floridatoday,January 10,2010;
Decision follows Corps construction contract for channel extension Port Corpus Christi decided to proceed with the design of a multi-purpose dock and terminal project to be constructed on the port’s 1,000-acre site at La Quinta. [mappress] Source:joc,January 8,2010;
MUCK REMOVAL: The unwanted sediment is called many names: goo, ooze, muck, slurry. [mappress] Source: tcpalm,January 9,2010;
