A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by papermakers Appleton Papers and NCR Corp to diffuse the US$1 billion to US$1.5 billion cost of cleaning up PCB contamination in the Fox River.
Bontan Corporation Inc. is pleased to announce that WesternGeco, a business unit of Schlumberger, has completed a 3D seismic survey on the Mira and Sarah Drilling Licenses and a 2D survey on the Benjamin Exploration Permit totaling 2,668 square kilometers in the Levantine Basin, 40 kilometers off th
Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Sperry Marine business unit has been awarded a follow-on contract to provide performance-based logistics (PBL) support for navigation and steering systems installed on U.S. Navy surface ships and submarines.
The consequences of failure to address maintenance dredging issues effectively is probably being felt nowhere more severely than in America’s Great Lakes… Source: Port Strategy, December 17, 2009
The A.P. Moller – Maersk Group and DFDS have today agreed that DFDS will acquire 100 percent of the shares in ferry and logistics company Norfolkline. The total value of the deal is approximately EUR 346 million (DKK 2,575 million), which includes the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group obtaining 28.8% of th
Almost half of the funds for Pakistan will be spent on irrigation and water infrastructure projects, report states… Source: USAID;
TAIPEI, Taiwan — As the useful lives of southern reservoirs are threatened by the accumulation of typhoon-induced silt deposits, the Water Resource Agency (WRA) and related officials have put their heads together to find the best method for excavating sediment from the dams, and in turn provide sust
Trawlers sailing from the Westcountry could have CCTV cameras installed as part of a deal to boost the amount of fish they are able to land. The news comes as disappointment was expressed with new quota deals hammered out by fisheries ministers from across the European Union this week.
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.
City leaders in Liverpool will refuse to accept defeat in their battle for cruises to start and end at the Pier Head liner terminal. Yesterday’s decision by the government to reject the plan as breaking competition rules was a major setback to the long-term aim of a cruising trade to and from the Me
The FV Aart Maaskant (UK95) is was one of the first Dutch commercial fishing vessels to be fitted with Iridium OpenPort. Gannexion BV, an Iridium service partner, installed the Iridium high-bandwidth terminal to replace the existing satcom system on the 139 ft beam trawler, which operates in the Nor
Italian Messina Group has ordered four ro-lo vessels from South Korea’s Daewoo for USD 300 million. Deliveries are scheduled from October 2011 to February 2013. The vessels are reported to have a capacity of 2,920 TEU or 6,030 lane metres.
Det Norske Veritas presented findings of a study in Copenhagen today that shows that shipping can cut its emissions by 30 percent by 2030. The results were presented onboard the Viking Lady, the world’s first commercial ship with a fuel cell adapted to marine use installed onboard, while docked in C
STX Group, the nation’s 19th-largest conglomerate, said Tuesday it would turn its shipbuilding affiliates in China into a holding company-led system to streamline its Chinese business… Source:koreatimes,December 15,2009
