Crucial fisheries talks for the Scottish fleet are to get under way in Brussels. EU ministers will discuss technical measures to govern fishing effort in 2010, amid calls for a re-think on discards – where fish are thrown back.
The State Government has given the nod to a $90 million cruise ship terminal in Townsville, in north Queensland. Premier Anna Bligh says the State and Federal Governments will each contribute $30 million towards a major redevelopment of Townsville’s Port.
A Senate panel on Thursday battled over whether the country could expand oil and gas drilling in coastal waters without damaging the environment, spotlighting one of the big fights over climate legislation. The debate in the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee comes as Senate lawmaker
A naming ceremony was held November 15 at Shenghui Gas & Chemical Systems in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province, China, for the world’s first LNG/ LPG/Ethylene carrier “Norgas Innovation”. The multigas vessel was built according to Germanischer Lloyd (GL)’s rules for classification and construction and
South Africa has come to understand the importance of domestic shipping. South Africa must have 300 vessels registered in the country to be able to secure its trade, industry and maritime sector. Today the country only has one vessel registered, but by the end of the fiscal year 2010/2011 there is t
Dockwise, together with industry partners, has received contract awards to transport various jack up drilling rigs to Sjarjah, Tianjin, West Africa, Sudan and Singapore and modules and a salvage vessel to Stavanger and Nigeria respectively. Most of the contract work will be carried out in Q4 2009 wi
Venga Aerospace Systems has announced that the company’s mining affiliate, Global Mineral Investments (GMI) has now resumed its Liberian gold mining operations with dredging now having started at GMI’s Dugbe River site. “We began dredging on November 16 because the water level was still high by the
China’s major seaports are expected to suffer a seven percent decline in container volume this year to 120 million TEU, according to Ministry of Transport estimates. The prediction comes after the nation’s box throughput decreased by 7.8 percent in the first nine months of the year compared with the
AVALON CONDITIONS WORSE THAN EXPECTED… Source: Shore News Today, November 18, 2009;
A consortium has installed 12 large wind turbines in the North Sea, to complete Germany’s first offshore wind farm alpha ventus. The facility, alpha ventus, was built by EWE, E.ON and Vattenfall in the consortium DOTI (Deutsche Offshore-Testfeld- und Infrastruktur Gesellschaft GmbH) at a cost of €25
The pressure from some ship owners to consider shortening training time for watch officers prompted Jean-Pierre Clostermann, manager of ship handling simulation at the Le Havre Merchant Marine Academy in France, to bring objective, experimental results into the debate about how much simulators can r
JSW Infrastructure Ltd. has shelved plans for constructing ships in the wake of a likely supply glut and will instead focus on building ports to tap India’s rising cargo traffic, its chief executive said. “We are not pursuing shipbuilding at the moment. We have looked at the entire business plan, we
The Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to properly maintain a shipping channel linking New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico led to catastrophic flooding during Hurricane Katrina, a federal court ruled Wednesday… Source: CNN, November 19, 2009;
Europe’s largest energy project, Nord Stream, this month received vital approvals from Sweden and Finland when they gave their OKs for the twin underwater pipelines to pass through their exclusive economic zones in the Baltic Sea… Source: ENR, November 18, 2009;
