Trade Minister Simon Crean says he is confident the new government in Tokyo will move to police any future over-fishing of the southern bluefin tuna by the Japanese fleet. In Tokyo for trade talks, Mr Crean acknowledged that the former conservative Japanese government failed to rein in the over-fish
Keppel Shipyard Limited (Keppel Shipyard) is on track to deliver the first floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the US Gulf of Mexico (GoM) to BW Pioneer Ltd, an affiliate of BW Offshore. Named on Oct. 26 at Keppel Shipyard, the vessel BW Pioneer will be turret moored at a wa
Subsea 7, UK, has been awarded an engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning (EPIC) contract from Petrobras (Petroleo Brasileiro) for the Roncador field, offshore Brazil. The contract is valued in excess of US$200 million.
Neorion Shipyards has said that it could purchase the Hellenic Shipyards from Germany’s ThyssenKrupp. The German company was this week in talks with the Greek Government over the sale of the shipyard, but was undecided on whether to sell the yard.
Wilhelmsen Ships Service has assisted with a major vessel-onto-vessel loading operation, that of the transfer of the Oslo-Nesodden ferry, the Prinsen, onto the Beluga Foundation, a 456 ft long heavy lift cargo vessel.
A crew member from the Scillonian III has been airlifted to hospital after collapsing on board the passenger ship. Falmouth Coastguard received the call at 1034 GMT and dispatched a rescue helicopter from RNAS Culdrose.
There is a long delay in capital dredging of deep-sea container terminal at the Karachi Port because in one year only 16 per cent dredging had been done against a target of 30 per cent, the KPT insiders told Dawn on Saturday.
Maersk Line announced today that it has reached an agreement with the South Carolina State Ports Authority to maintain services in the Port of Charleston beyond the conclusion of the current 2010 contract. This agreement brings a close to several months of negotiations and represents a reversal Maer
Qingdao Port, the seventh-largest port in the world, is gearing up to make itself the international freight center of Northeast Asia, constructing a series of new docks and developing a newly approved bonded area. “Actually, we are building another Qingdao Port,” said Tian Guangwen, vice president o
Hong Kong is developing a new cruise terminal with an investment of 7.2 billion Hong Kong Dollars (HKD). The new cruise terminal will start operations in 2013 and will be able to berth two mega vessels with facilities like immigrations, shopping, dining and entertainment etc. Hong Kong is looking at
ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) has been appointed as part of a consortia lead by Martin Wright Associates to undertake the necessary works to deliver a coastal defence scheme in Rhyli in the UK.
Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista is said to be planning to build a new shipyard in Rio de Janeiro. Mr Batista, who is the owner of Offshore Services X (OSX) recently announced plans to build his first shipyard in southern Brazil.
Seajacks International Ltd, the UK jack-up liftboat operator, has delivered the self-propelled jack-up Seajacks Leviathan vessel to Fluor on time and on budget. This marks the start of Seajacks’ charter at Greater Gabbard, the world’s largest offshore wind energy development.
The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (SAFMC) has unanimously voted to protect over 5.9 million square metres of complex deepwater corals in the Carolinas, Georgia and eastern Florida. The South Atlantic region holds one of the world’s largest contiguous distributions of deepwater corals.
