Two trawlers have been arrested and detained by the Ghana Nay in cape Coast and Tema for engaging in illegal fishing activities in the country’s territorial waters. In a move which underscored the Navy’s resolve to protect the country’s waters from illegal fishing and narcotic activities, the two ve
From 2010 the Mariehamn-based shipping company Birka Cargo Ab Ltd will be the main carrier of Holmen Paper AB’s products from the paper mills in Norrköping and Hallstavik. The ro-ro vessels Birka Transporter, Birka Exporter and Birka Shipper enter a several years long charter for the Swedish forest
The anti-whaling ship, the Steve Irwin, is in Hobart after pursuing a Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean. The Sea Shepherd boat has clashed with the Japanase security boat, Shonan Maru 2, with both sides using water cannons.
Minor Indian ports have not only bucked global trends showing a record 26.4 per cent growth in cargo traffic in the first two quarters of the current fiscal, but are also on course to give stiff competition to counterpart major ports in terms of the volume of cargo handled.
Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. announced that it has taken delivery of the Canary, a 58,000 dwt Supramax dry bulk vessel. The vessel has entered into a ten year time charter. The rate through January 2015 is $18,850 per day; thereafter the contract converts to a profit-sharing charter with a base rate of
During the past nine months of 2009, cruise ship activity witnessed, a significant improvement compared to the same period in 2008: it recorded the arrival of 609, 293 tourists across the sea and the anchoring of 288 cruise ships, whereas the traffic in the 150 other Mediterranean ports, decreased.
Somali pirates have released a Singapore-flagged container ship that had been held for nearly 10 weeks, an EU naval force in the area says. It said the Kota Wajar, which had 21 crew members, was freed off the Somali pirate stronghold of Haradere.
Haug Offshore Services reports that it has secured three new deals for Christmas. The company will deliver base services to Odfjell Drilling’s Supply unit at Mongstad. This contract which covers operation of Odfjell’s main storage, including the supply storages for Deep Sea Atlantic, Songa Trym and
Marina waste will be dumped on the continental shelf near Great Barrier Island in a trial given the go-ahead by Maritime New Zealand… Source: The New Zealand Herald, December 28, 2009; [mappress]
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust is mulling inviting global bids for appointment of a contractor to undertake the huge pending dredging work, as the selection of the consultant for preparing the tender document and sorting… Source: InfraNews, December 28, 2009 [mappress]
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung attended a ceremony December 27 to begin construction on a waterway passage to the Hau River for heavyweight vessels in the Mekong Delta’s Province of Tra Vinh… Source: Saigon Daily, December 28, 2009 [mappress]
Abu Dhabi: The Abu Dhabi Gas Liquefaction Company (Adgas) on Mondaysigned an agreement for a $1 billion (Dh3.67 billion) project with South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Co for the engineering, procurement and construction of an integrated gas development plant on Abu Dhabi’s Das Island… Source:g
Chinese engineering contractor Offshore Oil Engineering Co., Ltd. (SHSE: 600583) will build a large deepwater maritime engineering base in Zhuhai, a southern Chinese city, enhancing its deepwater oil and gas exploitation capacity and enabling it to gain more deepwater resources in South China Sea… S
Nord Stream has received its final permit from Germany for the construction of a gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea to directly link Russia with western Europe. Critics are voicing environmental concerns… Source: Deutsche Welle, December 28, 2009 [mappress]
