According to Mr Zhang Jiaguo chief analyst with the economic research center of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, China’s demand for shipbuilding steel would come to 41.52 million tonnes during 2006 to 2010, 8.3 million tonnes on average annually and during 2011 to 2015 and the figure will to
Qatar Gas Transport Company Ltd (Nakilat) and Qatar Shipping Company (Q-Ship) will name the first of two in a series of four Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) carriers at a naming ceremony to be held at Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd (HHI) located at Mipo Bay, Ulsan City, South Korea.
She was known for taking to the skies, but this weekend Amelia Earhart will take to the seas. The Navy will christen the USS Amelia Earhart on Sunday at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego.
SkySails’ first cargo ship, with a huge computer-controlled kite, was recently flagged off by Eva Luise Koehler, wife of German President Horst Koehler. The ship MV Beluga SkySails started its maiden voyage from the city of Bremerhaven, Germany to South & North America (and back) and the SkySails-Sy
Wednesday morning finally saw some America’s Cup activity in Valencia, not related to the infamous legal case in New York, even if one could argue about its relation to the world’s oldest sports event.
With about four feet to spare, a 16-story crane sneaked under the Columbia River bridge at Astoria Bridge on Thursday. The passage came in the dark, with fog, at 5:30 a.m. For a few bleary-eyed onlookers, a glimmer of light atop the Chinese ship Zhen Hua 17 gave the only indication of just how close
A UK cruise ship detained by police in Madeira in a dispute over a £2 million debt is to be released. The Van Gogh, which has about 460 passengers on board, was held on Tuesday shortly after it came into Funchal port in the Portuguese isles.
Experts who found the wreck of the HMAS Sydney, the Australian ship sunk during World War II, have released pictures of the vessel on the ocean floor. The Sydney was sunk by a German ship in 1941, with the loss of all 645 sailors on board.
Abraxas Petroleum Corporation today provided operational results on the Gisler #1, an exploratory well targeting the Wilcox formation, located in Karnes County of South Texas. The Gisler #1 was drilled vertically to a total depth of approximately 13,000′, completed without stimulation and placed on-
Mr. John C.S. Lau, President & Chief Executive Officer of Husky Energy Inc. confirmed today that the White Rose oil field resumed production, 350 kilometres southeast of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. In accordance with its ice management protocols, the Company shut-in production on the SeaR
Patrick Knowles Designs has purchased the property adjacent to its current office location on Northeast 18th Street in Fort Lauderdale and is reconfiguring the new space to double the size of its offices.
The FPSO Petrojarl Cidade de Rio das Ostras has received first oil from Petrobras’ Siri field offshore Brazil.
Congratulations are due this week to OCEAN Independence’s Palma office, where sales broker Marc Haendle has signed four new Central Agency agreements for new construction projects with two shipyards. The results of many months of negotiation, these deals are a testimony to Marc’s visionary approach
Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world’s biggest shipbuilder, has won a $300 million order to build two very large crude carriers (VLCCs) from Korea Line. “We’ve won such orders for VLCCs with a 300,000 ton each from the local company about $150 million per vessel,’’ a Hyundai spokesperson said. The of
