NOT one of the 42 cruise ships under construction in dockyards around the world will be able to use the new White Bay passenger terminal announced by the State Government because they are too tall to pass under the Harbour Bridge… Source: Sydney Morning Herald, December 22, 2009;
HOUSTON,USA — J. Ray McDermott, S.A., a subsidiary of McDermott International, announced today the completion of a vessel transaction with Oceanteam ASA for the subsea construction vessel, North Ocean 102 (“NO102”) and a new build vessel, North Ocean 105 (“NO105”)…
USACE awarded Weeks Marine with a $ 7.9 million Cutterhead / Dustpan Dredge Rental Contract for Passes of the Mississippi River, Southwest Pass Maintenance Dredge in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana… Source: www.fbo.gov
Importers and exporters using the Port of Halifax now have a second option to move product to and from Vietnam. Shipping line Hapag-Lloyd said a 10th vessel is being added to the Asia East Coast Express service and a new port call at the deepwater port of Cai Mep near Ho Chi Minh City.
Technip has signalled that it is to start work on a Front End Engineering and Design study for a floating LNG vessel destined for a pre-sale oil discovery offshore Brazil. The French contractor is to work with JGC Corporation on the FEED as part of a design competition launched by Petrobras with BG
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. today announced it has arranged commitments for unsecured financing in the amount of up to USD 1,130,000,000 or 80 percent of the contract price of Royal Caribbean International’s Allure of the Seas.
Lyttelton Port of Christchurch has lodged an application for resource consents to Environment Canterbury to deepen its shipping channel by up to 4 metres, so larger vessels can call over the full tidal range.
Policy makers on Monday proposed steps to address a plunge in ship orders this year in South Korea, home to seven of the world’s 10 largest shipbuilders. But there is little chance the industry here will avoid steep job losses and financial difficulties in coming years.
A cross-Channel ferry to France which has been operating from a Dorset town for the past 17 years will be withdrawn due to declining passenger numbers. Brittany Ferries said the Barfleur ferry between Poole and Cherbourg had been losing money since 2003 and would be taken out of service in the sprin
In January 2010 Finnlines opens a new weekly ro-ro service Kotka–Helsinki–Gothenburg–Bilbao–Antwerpen–Helsinki. The Swedish-flagged ro.ro vessels Finnmill and Finnpulp will be employed on the route after a charter on the Mediterranean.
“The increased demand for point-to-point service requires the use of transshipment hubs to coordinate feeder services to and from countries and ports with low-volume throughput,” said Mike Lee, Consultant, Transportation & Logistics, Asia Pacific at Frost & Sullivan. He added that there has been a u
South Korea and Russia signed an agreement Tuesday to control illegal fishing and related transactions starting in the new year, Yonhap news agency reported Tuesday, citing the Seoul government as saying here. The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said the illegal, unreported an
Led by European utilities, the offshore wind industry is poised for substantial scaling over the next decade, with the global installed base expected to grow to nearly 45 GW in 2020 according to a new market study from Emerging Energy Research. With large northern European utilities driving the indu
Aberdeen company Subocean has won tens of millions of pounds of funding to allow it to expand overseas. The private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group (LDC)… Source: BBC News, December 21, 2009
