China plans to step up naval patrols in disputed waters in the South China Sea to protect its interests, Chinese state media quoted an official as saying. The fisheries administration chief cited an increase in illegal fishing and other countries’ “unfounded claims” in seas that China claims as its
On Wednesday 18 March 2009, SMIT entered into an agreement to acquire all shares of Minette Bay Ship Docking Ltd in Prince Rupert, Canada. Minette Bay is active in the port of Prince Rupert with three ASD tugs. Minette Bay honorably performed the shipdocking services for Ridley Island Coal Terminal
On Monday, 23 February 2009 in Maassluis, Cummins and Holland Diesel Motoren (HDM) have both put their signatures under a dealer agreement that will bind the two companies for the coming years. HDM will act as a dealer for Cummins products in the offshore oil & gas market. At the end of the morning,
Future Pipe Industries (FPI) has successfully conducted a series of tests at the Qinetiq shock test facility in Scotland to become a qualified and approved supplier to the Royal Navy. Having a shock test certificate is mandatory to be considered as an approved supplier for navy ships. During the qua
Faria WatchDog®, Inc. announces that its WatchDog 750 long-range identification and tracking (LRIT) ship terminal has successfully completed the compliance and test requirements for operation on the Iridium satellite network. Faria WatchDog, Inc. is a leading supplier of satellite vessel monitoring
21 months after placing the order of the fall pipe and mining vessel ‘Simon Stevin’ with the shipyard Construcciones Navales del Norte in Sestao (Spain), the vessel was launched on 13 March 2009. The 191 m long vessel will be used for precise rock dumping to a depth of 1,700 m. The system for the [&
Maersk Tankers, owned by the Danish conglomerate A.P. Moller – Maersk Group, is prepared to enter into the CO2 transportation market to help promote Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), one of the technologies identified as key to mitigate the effects of climate change. “With this initiative we want to
Iridium is pleased to announce that on Wednesday, March 4, 2009, the company completed the replacement of the operational Iridium satellite lost in the collision three weeks ago with a non-operational Russian satellite. The unique architecture of Iridium’s fully-meshed network of 66 satellites enabl
Two Glasgow shipyards have won a share of a £150m order to build three patrol boats for the Trinidad and Tobago navy. BVT’s yard at Scotstoun will build one vessel and carry out work on another, with the help of the Govan yard. The firm’s Portsmouth facility had been due to build all three ships [&h
When pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia surged last year, the world sent its navies to tackle the problem. But now that we are taking the pirates on, does anyone know what to do when we catch them?
China has heaped more criticism on the US after a weekend confrontation between the two countries’ vessels in the South China Sea. The US ship had behaved “like a spy” and China’s action was “totally within our rights”, state media quoted senior naval officials as saying.
The Port of Oakland has awarded a 50-year concession to a partnership comprising Ports America and Terminal Investments, an affiliate of Mediterranean Shipping Company, the world’s second largest shipping line.
A Cornish couple’s luxury world cruise has turned into a “disaster” after their ship developed a fault, their daughter told the BBC. Rex and Yvonne Buckingham, from Illogan, are passengers on the P&O liner Aurora. The ship has been stranded in Auckland, New Zealand since Friday after developing a “t
An extensive search operation is under way off an island in central Japan after two cargo ships collided. One, a South Korean vessel with 16 crew members, is missing and feared sunk. The other, a Panama-registered cargo ship, was damaged but its crew is safe. The Japanese Coast Guard has six patrol
