Up to 36,000 jobs will be created in the development of the London Gateway’s port site, which will be Europe’s largest combined deep sea port and logistics park. Of those jobs, 12,000 will be operational roles, but DP World – which is behind the £1.5bn development – could not confirm when they would
A Pakistani fishing vessel used by Somali pirates to hijack a UK-owned car-transporting ship has been freed in the Indian Ocean. The Shahbaig – also known as the Shazaib – was used as a “mother ship” from which smaller boats were launched to capture the UK-owned Asian Glory.
Veripos has extended its multi-source Differential GPS service for South Atlantic and Southern Ocean regions with the establishment of new reference station facilities in the Falkland Islands.
Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. (NYSE:ANW) announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Verbeke Bunkering N.V., a physical supplier of marine fuel in the Antwerp-Rotterdam-Amsterdam (ARA) region, the world’s second largest bunkering market.
Special ceremonies at Fincantieri’s Monfalcone shipyard near Trieste, Italy, were held today to mark the float out of Cunard’s newest liner, Queen Elizabeth. Cunard’s President and Managing Director, Peter Shanks, was joined by 79-year-old Florence (Dennie) Farmer, who served as guest of honour at t
The Norwegian shipbuilding industry’s orders in 2009 decreased by 90 per cent compared to 2008. The new orders in 2009 was worth 1.3 billion Norwegian kroner. The lack of new orders will come to the surface in 2011 when most of the yards’ orders end.
Beginning next month, India will reportedly dredge the Ichhamati river in Bangladesh as the south Asian neighbours co-operate for the first time to protect rivers they share. Dredging of around 300 or more rivers in Bangladesh is urgently required, media reports say, resulting in heavy silting and r
THE Port of Brisbane Corporation has denied recent dredging of the shipping channel off Bribie Island will contribute to alarming erosion on the island. [mappress] Source:sunshinecoastdaily,January 6,2010
Oceaneering International, Inc. announced today it has commissioned the construction of a dive support vessel (DSV) with an estimated capital cost of $17 million. Oceaneering expects delivery of the 200 foot by 46 foot vessel from a U.S. Gulf Coast shipyard late in the fourth quarter of 2010. The ne
The Thai Frozen Food Association (TFFA) has maintained that it is confident that Thailand is facing a promising outlook despite new EU regulations banning the fishery products suspected of originating from illegal, unregulated or unreported (IUU) fishing. From 2010, Thailand’s Fisheries Department w
YORK, Maine —The Army Corps of Engineers plans to dredge the Piscataqua River in Eliot, Maine, where tankers turn, according to Robert Green, an environmental specialist with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection in Portland. The Army Corps has applied to the DEP to move an estimated 100,
The Prime Minister has said the development of the London Gateway port will create thousands of jobs for the region and is a vote of confidence in the UK’s economic recovery. [mappress] Source: Number10, January 5, 2010
The Army Corps of Engineers, which for years has fought to increase the depth to 45 feet, wants to make the most of this situation, and is pressing a federal judge for permission to cut five feet deeper into the river. [mappress] Source: Delaware Online, January 5, 2010;
PLUM ISLAND — A plan to replenish the badly eroded beach at Plum Island Center and save homes has been put off until at least next fall. [mappress] Source: Newbury Port News, January 5, 2010;
