The Commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructure Development, Prince Adesegun Oniru disclosed this at a meeting with management staff of the office of the Special Adviser to the Governor on Mineral Resources Development in his office at Alausa, Ikeja… Source: Sun News,December 19,2009;
Independence (LCS 2) 11th vessel delivered in Austal USA’s 10-year history Fabrication has started on twelve of the twenty-eight modules that will make up this 127-metre trimaran design. Six of the twenty-eight modules are currently being outfitted with ships equipment such as gas turbines, generato
THE Australian Maritime College’s (AMC) Maritime Transport Policy Centre (MTPC) and the AMC’s National Centre for Marine Conservation and Resource Sustainability have teamed up to research on what impact climate change will have on Australian ports… Source: Shipping Industry, December 17, 2009
The state Board of Public Works approved Wednesday a 50-year lease that will allow a private company to manage operations at the port of Baltimore. Officials say the deal will generate at least $1.3 billion and 5,700 new jobs… Source:baltimoresun.com,December 17,2009;
Lean times lie ahead for companies on the hunt for maintenance dredging work, with the real effect of the economic downturn not hitting their balance sheets until next year and beyond… Source: Port Strategy, December 18, 2009;
GREEN BAY, Wis. — A federal judge in Green Bay has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to make 20 companies and governmental units share in the massive costs of cleaning up the lower Fox River… Source: Associated Press, December 17, 2009
Hauraki Gulf tribes and environmental groups are unhappy about a plan to dump dredged spoil on the continental shelf near Great Barrier Island… Source: New Zealand Herald, December 18, 2009
The Barents 2020 cooperation project, involving some 100 Norwegian and Russian experts, on safeguarding petroleum activities in the Barents Sea has now been concluded. At a conference in Moscow, the experts presented their recommendations in front of more than 200 representatives from industry and a
An Air Force Orion has intercepted an illegal fishing boat catching valuable toothfish in the Southern Ocean. In a statement Foreign Minister Murray McCully and Fisheries Minister Phil Heatley said the boat named Carmela and was flying the Togolese flag.
Cambodia and Vietnam signed a bilateral deal Thursday that will allow greater access to each other’s port facilities, an agreement both sides said would boost trade across the border. The deal means that ships from Cambodia will enjoy unlimited access to Vietnamese ports on the Mekong, and vice vers
Fincantieri has signed a contract for the construction of a seven-deck motor yacht of 140 metres in length. The superyacht will be identified as “Hull # 6218”. This is the first order for a yacht longer than 80 metres signed since the beginning of the financial crisis in October 2008.
The German-flagged luxury cruise ship Deutschland arrived at the Port’s Julia Street Cruise Ship Terminal Tuesday evening marking the vessel’s second visit to the Crescent City in as many months. The 575-foot vessel is owned by German-based Peter Deilmann Cruises, which offers global year-round crui
The Iraqi Navy takes delivery of the last two of four patrol vessels. Today at Fincantieri’s shipyard in Muggiano (La Spezia) there was the delivery ceremony for the last two of four patrol vessels ordered by the Iraqi Navy from Fincantieri. The contract also comprises the provision of logistical su
A major rescue operation is under way after a ship carrying 83 passengers and crew and a cargo of livestock sank off the north Lebanese coast in a storm. The Panamanian-flagged Danny F II capsized 11 nautical miles off Tripoli after sending a distress signal.
