Fire crews are calling for urgent action over the storage and transportation of fireworks as a ship laden with them was set to dock at Felixstowe on Monday 8 October. The Fire Brigades Union warns fireworks will be moved across the UK in the same ISO storage containers at the centre of the Marlie Fa
Making an entry into the estimated $14 billion (Rs55,300 crore) lucrative global dredging market, Chennai-based infrastructure development firm MARG Constructions Ltd has bought a Chinese-built dredger for Rs50 crore.
Dragados Offshore, S.A., which is part of the Industrial service area of the ACS Group, will build the biggest vessel containing drilling, process and oil storage facilities of the world in its Yard of Puerto Real (Cadiz), for the Norwegian company MPF Corp. This pioneering project will imply work l
A lone sailor was rescued by a passing vessel when his yacht caught fire off the Aberdeenshire coast. The Banff RNLI lifeboat was launched at about 1615 BST after the coastguard received a call from a man reporting his yacht on fire off Macduff.
The Hyundai Heavy Industries Group conveyed its deep condolences to Greece, which suffered horrible nation-wide fires that ravaged over 200,000 hectares of land, leading to over 5000 refugees. HHI donated US $500,000 to the country to help the victims of this disaster. Greece was the first customer
Final Royal Australian Navy Patrol Boat Named ‘Glenelg’. The successful completion of Australia’s landmark 14-vessel Armidale Class Patrol Boat fleet was celebrated during an historic naming ceremony held at Austal’s Henderson facility today. Austal designed and constructed all 14 vessels during the
Sri Lanka’s navy says it has sunk a ship used by the Tamil Tiger rebels, killing at least 12 people on board. It was the last seaworthy Tiger vessel, as seven were destroyed recently, navy spokesman DPK Dassanayake said.
A boat builder, who started the revival in gig racing in the south-west of England, has retired. Ralph Bird borrowed a few of the traditional pilot boats from Newquay, Cornwall, for a race in 1981 and the sport began a renaissance.
Renaissance announced that its Abu Dhabi based oil & gas subsidiary Adyard LLC was recently awarded a $35m contract by Single Buoy Moorings Inc. The contract is for the fabrication of a Mobile Offshore Production Unit for to be located on the YME Field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.
Rescue teams using a remote camera have located the body of a worker, who died at a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal site in Pembrokeshire. The sub-contractor was working on a maintenance platform, alongside a jetty at Milford Haven port, when it collapsed at 1500 BST on Saturday.
An inquiry is under way into the death of a worker after a maintenance barge collapsed at a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal site in Pembrokeshire. Seven men were rescued in the incident at Milford Haven at 1500 BST on Saturday.
The 44-year-old man, who died Saturday, was part of a diving team gathering video and other evidence for a judicial investigation into what caused the ship to sink, the Merchant Marine Ministry said.
On Saturday 6 October all flags were at full mast on the island of Gossen in the municipal of Aukra when the royal couple arrived from Molde to inaugurate the Ormen Lange gas Field. Whilst people flooded in to the Aker Stadium in Molde for the evening’s opening celebration show, the royal couple wer
The development of the $1.3-billion Rewas port has hit a roadblock. The state government has not cleared the transfer of the notified land to the port company, owned by the Reliance group. This has led to a delay in the proposed dredging of the channel and port.
