The number of containers moving through the Port of Halifax will drop below 500,000 for 2007, after staying above the half-million mark for seven years, according to unofficial year-end figures soon to be released.
The 2007-turnover of National Container Company can gain 1.5mln TEU, the company informed. By 2019 NKK intends to invest $1.7bn in the infrastructure. The turnover is expected to reach 3.3mln TEU in 2007 and 10.5mln TEU in 2019 through the Russian ports.
Boustead Yachts (BY) Langkawi, Malaysia, a member of the Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation (BHIC) group of companies, has teamed up with Monaco Yachting Technologies (MYT) to build an initial two 74-metre Super Yachts.
Danaos Corporation Orders with Hyundai Three 10,100 TEU Post Panamax Containerships and Agrees to 12 Year Charters for All. Also Takes Delivery of One 4,253TEU New Building Expanding Current Fleet to 37 Containerships Danaos Corporation announced yesterday that it has ordered three 10,100 TEU contai
Third-Generation Brasil Maru Joins Fleet. Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL, President: Akimitsu Ashida) today announced the launch of one of the world’s largest iron ore carrier, the Brasil Maru (327,180 MT DWT). Naming and delivery ceremonies were held at the Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Lt
Cargotec’s MacGREGOR business area providing marine cargo handling and offshore solutions, has during November received hatch cover orders from various Korean shipyards. The equipment will be delivered for 31 shipsets during 2008–2010 and the value of the orders is close to EUR 40 million.
Chevron Corp. today announced that the investors in the Angola liquefied natural gas (LNG) project have agreed to move the project forward to the construction phase. Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Chevron, has a 36.4 percent interest in Angola LNG Limited, which has e
Two bidders have emerged as the favourites to provide essential maintenance to the Royal Navy in a deal worth millions of pounds. Tyneside A&P and the Northwestern Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders of Birkenhead, Merseyside, have been named as the final two contenders.
Transas has upgraded the existing VTS installed for Indonesia Ports. The existing five VTS systems were delivered by Transas Marine Pacific in 2004 and 2005. These VTSs are currently operated by DG Sea Transportation of Indonesia at the following locations: Jakarta, Semarang, Surabaya, Belawan-Medan
A cruise ship collided with a freighter in Montevideo’s harbour, sending some of the freighter’s cargo overboard and closing the port, a news report said. The 229 passengers of the cruise ship, Norwegian Dreams 2, and the crews of both vessels were unhurt in Monday’s accident
The champagne bottle wobbled on its perch above the bow of the Queen Victoria. Having pushed the button that was to send it smashing into the side of the new Cunard ocean liner in the naming ceremony in Southampton yesterday, the Duchess of Cornwall stood on stage and waited.
Verenex Energy Inc. is pleased to confirm its fifth oil discovery D1-47/02 in Area 47 in the Ghadames Basin in Libya. The D1-47/02 new field wildcat exploration well was drilled to a depth of 9,720 feet with the Ensign Rig 28 and was tested at a maximum flow rate of 7,742 barrels of oil per [&hellip
Total announces the start-up of commercial production in the first phase of the Surmont Project today in Canada. The Surmont lease is located about 60 kilometres southeast of Fort McMurray in Alberta’s oil sands. Total holds a 50% interest in the project, which is operated by ConocoPhillips.
During the night of December 7 to 8, the very large crude carrier (VLCC) Samco Europe and a container ship were involved in a collision in international waters south of Bab el-Mandeb Strait, in the Gulf of Aden. Built by a South Korean shipyard, the Samco Europe is a new, double-hulled oil tanker de
