A signing ceremony attended by Chairman of global marine terminal operator DP World and holding company Dubai World, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, and Senegal Prime Minister Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré formally handed responsibility for operating and developing Senegal’s busiest container terminal to DP Wor
Cala trading under the symbol of CCAA is pleased to debut its new 710 foot megayacht featuring 100 sleek large undersea windows, two large helipads, an olympic swimming pool deck, and 20,000 square feet of skylight to flood the seven-story interior with natural light. The Undersea Gigayacht will be
In the context of a still highly buoyant freight market and of world growth in the dry bulk shipping demand, Thermidor comes to reinforce the fleet owned by Setaf Saget to accompany its customers development.
BW Offshore confirmed the signing of the contract for the conversion, installation and operation of a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) at the Petrobras-operated deepwater Chinook and Cascade fields in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The contract is for a total of up to eight years
Trans Ocean Distribution joins JF HILLEBRAND Group to create the world’s leading company in liquids logistics. JF Hillebrand Group, the world’s leading provider of logistic services to the beverage industry has acquired 100 % of the shares of Trans Ocean Distribution Limited, the leading and most in
Sole qualified bidder for building three dredgers, IHC Holland, refuses to extend the validity of its Rs1,087 crore bid. The efforts of state-run Dredging Corp. of India Ltd (DCI) to acquire three new dredgers has run into rough weather with the sole qualified bidder refusing to extend the validity
Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors has won the Best Technical Traineeship prize for 2007. The prize was created by Smart Events BV, the events organiser responsible for the Sp!ts Career Event. Its purpose is to give students in higher education and recent graduates a good impression of the var
70 entries and counting. The Rolex Middle Sea Race is on the cusp of another record fleet for the sixth consecutive event. Last year, 68 competitors set off on the 607 nautical mile race from Malta around Sicily, Pantelleria and Lampedusa, and back to Malta. This year the race starts on 20th October
A boat powered by biodiesel has arrived in Bristol ahead of an attempt to break the record for powerboats travelling around the world. The 24 metre-long craft, named Earthrace, is touring 50 European cities
SINGAPORE: Yangzijiang Shipbuilding has won contracts, worth a total of US$410 million (S$593 million), to build 13 container vessels.
Euroseas Ltd. (NASDAQ: ESEA), an owner and operator of drybulk carriers and container ships and provider of seaborne transportation for drybulk and containerized cargoes, announced today that it has taken delivery of the M/V Tiger Bridge, an intermediate container ship of 30,400 dwt and 2,228 twenty
In another sign of potential friction in the warming Arctic, Canada has warned that it will step up patrols of the North West Passage. Record summer melting of sea-ice has cleared the passage for the first time; and immediately escalated a dispute over who controls the route.
Hundreds of people in Cornwall will have to rethink their journeys after a car ferry beached. The King Harry Ferry takes cars and passengers across the River Fal between the village of Feock and Philleigh on the Roseland Peninsula.
Development of the offshore Taranaki Kupe gasfield is taking a big step forward with the arrival from Singapore of the rig that will drill the project’s three production wells. Weighing about 16,000 tonnes, the Ensco 107 rig was 157m high and 63m wide, the Kupe project said today.
