One of the U.S. Navy’s two huge hospital ships, USNS Comfort, has just finished a four-month mission to 12 Latin American countries, during which it provided free health care to 98,000 people. VOA’s Al Pessin visited the ship, along with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, on the last day of its mi
Marking its entry into the booming dredging sector, Mercator Lines (MLL), the second largest private shipping firm in India, has bought two dredgers and is in the process of acquiring four more in the current fiscal for a total investment of $300 million. According to MLL sources, the acquisition of
Rescue crews scouring the North Sea for the skipper of a fishing boat which collided with a cargo ship have called off the search. Helicopters and boats had been searching for the skipper on Thursday.
Rolls-Royce, a world-leading provider of power systems and services, has signed contracts worth more than $64 million to supply RB211-powered gas compression packages to Shell, ExxonMobil and Woodside Energy for use on offshore production platforms. The units will be operating offshore Australia, Ma
French explorer Jean-Louis Etienne* will unveil the Total Pole Airship tomorrow at the Boussiron hangars of the Marseille Provence airport, marking a new step in his project to fly over the Arctic Ocean in April 2008. Organized as part of the fourth International Polar Year, the expedition is placed
Rolls-Royce has signed a contract valued at more than $24 million to supply BP with two gas turbine mechanical drive packages for use at the Dimlington onshore compression facility on the east coast of England. The two RB211-GT61 Dry Low Emissions (DLE) gas turbines will be an integral part of a £12
Mr. John C.S. Lau, President & Chief Executive Officer of Husky Energy Inc., announced today that Husky Oil Operations Limited (‘Husky’) and Esso Exploration Greenland Limited (‘Esso’) have been awarded a joint interest in an exploration licence from the West Disko 2006 Licencing Round, offshore Gre
The skipper of a trawler who went missing when his boat collided with a cargo ship in the North Sea has not been found despite two days searching. Rescue crews had called off their search for John Collinson, who has been missing since Thursday afternoon.
Recently VOSTA LMG signed a supply contract with Tianjin Dredging Corporation (TDC) in China for a Basic Design and Dredging Components package for a Self Propelled Cutter Suction Dredger with a dredging capacity of 4.500m³/hour.
The project required $800mln in investments. The launching of the terminal will permit to cover the deficit of the infrastructure capacities and support the cargo turnover in the Baltic region.
Bharati Shipyard, the second largest private sector shipbuilder in the country, is going slow on fresh orders for building ships since the company is booked to capacity till 2011. The company, promoted by two former naval architects – P C Kapoor and Vijay Kumar – has seen orders pouring from France,
The Port of Champerico has awarded Van Oord the contract for the construction of a new fishing port. The contract value is EUR 24 million. The project will be partly financed by a Dutch finance export plan (ORET). The project has an execution period of 18 months.
MISC Bhd, together with Vietnam’s Petroleum Technical Services Corp, has been awarded a contract worth US$350mil to US$400mil to provide floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) facility leasing for eight years. The contract was given by PC Vietnam Ltd.
The endangered right whale is to get extra protection after a safe haven from shipping was set aside off Nova Scotia in Canada. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) ratified a Canadian proposal to designate the 1,800-sq-km zone an ‘Area to Be Avoided’ at a meeting in Denmark.
