A Maltese-flagged freighter that mysteriously disappeared in the Atlantic over the summer has returned to Malta, officials say. The Arctic Sea was towed into harbour in the Maltese capital, Valletta, after maritime officials inspected the vessel and declared it radiation-free.
Proposals to extend a dock on Teesport to serve a £400m renewable energy plant have been given the go ahead. MGT Power wants to build the facility, which would burn 2.4m tonnes of wood chips a year, on land next to the main southern dock.
Fumunda Marine and the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries (DPI&F) are working together to reduce the number of migrating whales caught in shark nets along the east coast of Australia. Fumunda Director James Turner said he was very excited that the Queensland DPI&F had commissi
Houlder Ltd in the UK says that, in a move away from traditional floating production, Vampire Production Ltd has engaged Houlder to design a vessel to work on new and marginal oil fields. Unlike traditional FPSOs, the vessel is designed for short term as well as long term contracts, with the ability
A yacht has been spotted by the European Union Naval Force Somalia in the search for a British couple thought to have been captured by pirates. A spokesman said their warships were in “close vicinity’ and radar range but were keeping their distance.
Van Oord has been awarded a contrac to deepen the harbour at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The contract value amounts to some Euros 45 million. The client is a ministry set up specifically to keep Brazil’s ports accessible for larger ships. Execution of the project will commence in 2010 and take almost
Russia’s state-controlled oil company Rosneft intends to invest about $6 billion in developing offshore fields in the next few years, CEO Sergei Bogdanchikov said on Tuesday. Bogdanchikov said Rosneft’s investment in offshore deposit projects had already reached about $13 billion and “in the coming
Port Everglades received a certificate of occupancy for the new Cruise Terminal 18, two weeks before the official grand opening on November 6 and in time to test the building’s functionality before welcoming Royal Caribbean International’s 5,400-passenger Oasis of the Seas. The City of Hollywood awa
A ferry service connecting south Wales and Devon is set to launch at Easter. New operator Severn Link said it will run two catamarans between Swansea and Ilfracombe boosting the economies both sides of the Bristol Channel. The passenger-only ferries will run all-year round taking around 50 minutes t
The new megayacht Ancora, which recently made its debut from Italy’s Baglietto shipyard in La Spezia, has been fitted with a state-of-the-art integrated bridge system (IBS) supplied by Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Sperry Marine business unit. The bridge electronics suite is based on Sperry Marine’
The Port of Ningbo handled 1.05 million TEU in September, a 9.4 percent year-on-year increase. According to Logistics Week, this was the first time the port had surpassed the one million TEU mark. Ningbo Port Group Director Li Linghong said that the port’s container volume had suffered a sharp decre
Norden has named six new medium range (MR) product tankers built by Japan’s Imabari Shipbuilding. The most recent addition to Norden’s tanker fleet was the 48,006DWT MR product tanker, named ‘Nord Imagination’. The ceremony was held at the Iwagi Zosen Shipyard, one of eight yards in the Seto Inland
STX Europe’s Turku shipyard delivered the world’s largest and most innovative cruise vessel to the U.S. cruise line Royal Caribbean International. The Oasis of the Seas marks an unforeseen step forward in the development of cruise vessels and opens totally new prospects for cruise business. The giga
Maersk Line has unveiled plans to launch a dedicated feeder service between the United Arab Emirates and Iraq. The service will be launched on 14 November and will call at Jebel Ali and Umm Qasr using a US flagged vessel.
