Ngqura Container Terminal in the Eastern Cape has received its first commercial vessel call. The MSC Catania – measuring 300 metres with a draught of 13 metres – docked at the new South African port, en route from Durban on Sunday. The vessel call was used as a test run for dock workers to hone [&he
Metro Manila residents can look forward to an early rehabilitation of the Pasig River as the dredging project continues 24 hours a day and seven days a week, Environment Secretary Jose L. Atienza, Jr. said. Atienza, chairman of the Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission (PRRC), issued the statement a
Costa, Europe’s Number One Cruise Line, kicked off its inaugural Canada/New England cruise series with the arrival of the Costa Atlantica in the Port of Quebec on Friday, October 2. The first call marks the beginning of a series of 11- to 13-night routes through Canada and New England this fall befo
Russian tanker owner Sovcomflot has taken its first step into the offshore market by acquiring Swire Pacific’s 2006 built PSV Pacific Endurance (3,642 dwt).
The double-ended ferry ‘La Gironde’ has been in service at Europe’s largest river mouth, the Garonne estuary, since 2002 and now her sister vessel ‘L’Estuaire’ has been delivered also. Tourists favour the popular river mouth in order to reach the sea faster by car.
Wednesday 23 September the Mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb, officially opened Holland Marine House Russia (HMHR) at the Holland Pavilion at the NEVA exhibition in St. Petersburg (Russia). HMHR is the local representation of the Dutch maritime industry on the Russian market.
The Containership Company (TCC) is the name of a new company set up in Copenhagen, which will pick up and operate container vessels in the present market. “There is a lot of idle tonnage at the moment and we will negotiate with owners of these container vessels to purchase or operate the vessels”, s
The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners has unanimously approved the San Pedro Waterfront Project. The 400-acre waterfront infrastructure and revitalization initiative will extend from the Port’s inner harbor cruise facilities to Cabrillo Beach in the outer harbor and create a world-class wate
A Spanish fishing boat with a crew of 36 has been attacked by a gang of Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean, reports say. Officials said that the Alakrana was seized in waters between Somalia and the Seychelles. The European Union’s anti-piracy naval force has begun an operation to make contact with
hovercraft has been parked on a beach in Essex to provide emergency cover for divers working on an offshore wind farm. The craft is based on Clacton’s West Beach for divers who are installing 48 wind turbines at Gunfleet Sands. Danish firm Dong Energy is installing the turbines and wants the hovercr
South Korean shipbuilder STX Offshore & Shipbuilding (067250.KS) said on Monday it had won orders worth a total of $150 million from units of Europe’s Jan De Nul Group. STX, the world’s No. 4 shipbuilder, said in a statement that it would build two trailing suction hopper dredgers and one side stone
Mercuria Energy Asset Management B.V., the holding company managing the fixed assets of the Mercuria Energy Group, is pleased to announce a successful acquisition of Nafta (B) N.V., a company operating a 830 thousand cubic meter storage terminal for petroleum products in the Port of Antwerp. The ter
ATP Oil & Gas Corporation (NASDAQ: ATPG) today announced that it has amended its agreement with COSCO Nantong Shipyard Ltd. (“COSCO”) to defer $99 million in construction cost for the Octabuoy hull. The deferral will be supported by a Letter of Insurance issued by the China Export and Credit Insuran
The 2nd International Conference on “Ship Efficiency” left its more than 200 participants wondering, whether the current proposal to implement an Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) is an appropriate tool to cut ship emissions. Professor Stefan Krueger of TU Hamburg Harburg, Institute of Ship Desi
