Work on conserving material from the fire-damaged Cutty Sark is under way in Kent, so the whole ship can eventually return to its dry dock in London. Specialists working on the tea clipper have said their aim is conservation rather than restoration, because much of the original material remains.
A consortium led by Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd. will build 16 new berths in Singapore to enable the island state to handle growing demand for container capacity, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore said Wednesday.
At Uljanik on 15th September 2007 from the slipway No. 2 there was launched Hull No. 468, known a ‘Morning Menad’. The ship is a 4,900 Car Truck Carrier of 12,300 DWT for the Buyer Ray Car Carriers Ltd. This is the fifth ship in a series of nine ships contracted with the company Ray […]
Danaos Corporation (NYSE: DAC) today announced that it has extended its shipbuilding contracts with China Shipbuilding Trading Company, Limited to include one more 8,530 TEU vessel, bringing the total number to five vessels. All five Post Panamax containerships will be built by the Shanghai Jiangnan
The Lurssen mystery project made its appearance last week. Superyacht Times has the picstures. Not much is known about the 155-meter project besides the name Sunflower.
TEESSIDE group PD Ports today announced it had taken a major step forward in its plans to build a £300m deep sea container terminal at Teesport. The scheme, which could create 5,500 jobs, now has no outstanding objections and port bosses hope it will be given the green light by the Government.
This could have dramatic effects on both commercial shipping and hydrocarbon exploitation. Travel time for a container ship on the Rotterdam-Yokohama route could be cut by about a third by using the Arctic Ocean rather than the Suez Canal. Vessels could move freely, without the cumbersome – and expe
Ocean liner shipping services have been diversifying operations to include terminal operations, a trend in maritime trade that is becoming more predominant, port experts say. On Aug. 23, the Port of New Orleans gave authority to President and CEO Gary LaGrange to enter into a lease with a new joint
Shares of shipping companies are sailing big time on the market as investors see higher profits from rising freight rates in the dry bulk carrier segment. Over the last three weeks, share prices Mercator Lines, Shipping Corporation of India, Shreyas Shipping, GE Shipping and Varun Shipping have firm
A new oil discovery has been made by Statoil in the Ragnarrock prospect near the Sleipner area in the North Sea. ‘It is encouraging that Statoil has made an oil discovery in a little-explored exploration model that is close to our North Sea infrastructure,’ says Frode Fasteland, acting exploration m
The transport ministry will develop fuel-efficiency standards for large ships over the next three years to cut carbon dioxide emissions, sources said. The standards will enable marine transportation companies to see the fuel economy of their ships, particularly large ones, before they are constructe
An accident report into the investigation of the collapse of cargo containers onboard a UK-registered feeder ship last February has been published by the Southampton-based UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB). The findings of the report are likely to have far reaching implications througho
Awilco Offshore (AWO) and ConocoPhillips have agreed on a one year extension of the existing contract for the accommodation unit Port Rigmar at the Ekofisk Field. The contract extension is from 1 October 2008 to 1 October 2009 and has a contract value of approximately USD 55 million.
Technip has been awarded by Woodside Energy Limited a contract for the Enfield development. This field is located offshore Australia at a water depth of 550m.
