Four new super post-Panamax cranes – the largest container cranes in the world – are on their way from China to Container Berths 8 and 9 at Georgia Ports Authority’s Garden City Terminal. Too large to fit through the Panama Canal, the cranes – which left the port of Nantong in China on Christmas Eve
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has described the actions of Iranian vessels which confronted the US Navy as provocative and dangerous. Iran played down the event, calling it an ‘ordinary occurrence’, but Ms Rice told the BBC there was ‘nothing normal’ about the incident.
The hunt for four sailors missing after a fishing vessel sank about 50 miles (80km) off Cornwall has been resumed by French rescue services. French and British helicopters assisted in the search for the seven crewmen from the La P’tite Julie at its last reported position south of The Lizard.
During the New Year meeting today for dredging concern Royal Boskalis Westminster nv, CEO Peter Berdowski looked back on a fantastic 2007 that broke various records. He confirmed the forecast made previously of an increase in the net profit to approximately € 200 million. Boskalis booked a record tu
Golden Ocean Group Limited has agreed to sell one of the Company’s capesize newbuildings contracted in December 2006 at Daehan Shipbuilding Co., South Korea. The vessel is sold for net sale proceeds of $121.4 million and delivery to the buyers is expected to take place in August 2008.
Subsea 7 Inc, one of the world’s leading subsea engineering and construction companies, announced today that it has been awarded a contract by Petrobras America, a subsidiary of Petrobras (NYSE: PBR/PBRA) for installation works in the deepwater Cascade & Chinook fields in the Gulf of Mexico. The con
Ports operator DP World has announced a $32 million (Dh117.5m) investment plan in Mozambique port of Maputo, through a partnership with Grindrod International Ltd and Mozambique Gestores SARL.
Jan de Nul, a non-listed competitor of Dutch dredger Boskalis Westminster NV, says that its Vasco da Gama dredger, one of the biggest in the world, has been damaged by fire, adding that it could take up to four months before the vessel is back in action.
Beaches in Port Phillip Bay will be affected by the $1 billion plan to deepen Melbourne’s shipping channels until at least the summer of 2010, under a revised completion date for the controversial project.
Australian Oil & Gas Exploration and Production Company Baraka Petroleum Limited (‘Baraka’) in conjunction with its Joint Venture partners is pleased to announce that acquisition of the 3D seismic survey over the La Punta Block in Colombia has been completed. The survey was undertaken by Compañia Ge
The US military has released video and audio recordings of Iranian boats that it says threatened to blow up US Navy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. The jerky footage, shot from one of the three US ships, shows several small boats approaching at high speed.
Transocean Inc. today announced that its report of drilling rig status and contract information covering the company’s 140-unit offshore drilling fleet has been updated as of January 8, 2008.
The Dutch design studio Vripack® is responsible for this 45m Displacement Motor Yacht’s interior styling, the second of the series being built by Timmerman Yachts in Moscow. The design brief for the interior was clear and straightforward, the Russian Owner asked for an elegant, simple, yet sophistic
Five Iranian speedboats harassed three US navy ships at the weekend, approaching them and radioing a threat to blow them up, US officials say. The incident happened as the US vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz, which separates the Arabian peninsula and Iran, Pentagon officials said.
