In what could be the biggest joint venture in India’s ports sector, French shipping major CMA CGM is set to pick up a 26 percent stake in a subsidiary of the Ahmedabad-based Adani group. CMA CGM, which is the world’s third-largest shipping company, is close to acquiring the equity in Adani Logistics
The First Coast is a step closer to connecting with Asian trade. The city issued permits to the Jacksonville Port Authority for construction of the Dames Point Container Terminal, which will accommodate the Japanese shipping company, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. (MOL). Tokyo-based MOL is part of the MOL
Operations are currently underway in the Strait of Gibraltar to salvage the Panamanian registered cargo ship ‘New Flame’ which partially sank after colliding with the Danish tanker the ‘Tom Gertrud’ on Sunday 12th August. The ‘New Flame’ loaded with scrap metal was leaving Gibraltar when it came so
Last Friday SYT reporter Philipp Stohn went out on a grey morning to take photos of Skat. When he arrived at the location where he saw Skat the day before, she was gone and to make it even worse it started to rain. At the moment he wanted to leave, he saw Skat coming back […]
The planned Ksh4 billion ($59.7 million) dredging of the Mombasa port is officially underway with the appointment of consultants to study the area to be dredged. The consultants are expected to complete their report by November, with the work to start almost immediately thereafter. Kenya Ports Autho
As the northern breakwater of Yarmouth’s outer harbour begins to take shape, union leaders were yesterday seeking assurances over dock workers’ jobs at the new port. More than a year ahead of the earliest possible opening date for the £80m harbour, Victor Brazkiewicz, regional industrial organiser f
Nine divers have been rescued from the North Sea after their two support boats lost contact with them in deteriorating weather conditions. Support crews off the north Norfolk coast raised the alarm on Saturday.
An arrest notice will be served on a fish factory ship preventing it from leaving Ullapool Harbour following a row over crew pay. The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) is investigating complaints about unpaid wages made by seven men who worked on the Enxembre. The arrestment was grant
Coastguards have called off their search for a prawn fisherman who has been missing at sea for almost a week. Local fishermen are continuing to look out for any sign of Gordon Wilson’s boat and the coastguard will also co-ordinate communications. Mr Wilson, from St Combs, near Fraserburgh, has not b
A yacht believed to be the largest single-masted wooden boat built in England since before World War II has been built in Ipswich. The 100ft “super yacht”, with a £4m price tag, was built by Spirit Yachts.
The Assets Recovery Agency has frozen the assets of three County Down fishermen as part of a crackdown on a fish quota scam. The agency obtained restraint orders against three men, including a father and son, from the Kilkeel area.
A search and rescue operation is under way in the North Sea near Arbroath to try and find a man who has fallen overboard from a fishing vessel.
On Tuesday 14 August 2007 NB 658 arrived at our yard in Hoogezand. The vessel left the Zaliv shipyard in the Ukraïne on 28 June 2007 and arrived in Emden one month later.
The ‘Bahia Negra’, the last of a total of six identical 3,752 TEU Hamburg Süd container ships was christened today at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. (DSME) yard in Okpo/Korea. Sponsor of the newbuilding is Dr. Irmgard Gold-Kunisch, wife of Dr. Rolf Kunisch, a member of the adv
