Unknown gunmen on motorcycles have shot and wounded a US-based British professor and a security guard in Nigeria’s oil city, Port Harcourt. Professor Michael Watts was in Port Harcourt to attend an awards ceremony at a local newspaper office. In another oil city, Yenagoa, the mother of a local state
The shuttle tanker Navion Gothenburg was delivered yesterday, after upgrading and modification1, from the shipyard Dubai Drydocks. The basic model of the vessel was built at the shipyard Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea and is owned on a 50-50 basis and on the same terms by Stena Bulk and the
The Port of Tacoma today announced plans to build a US$300 million, 168-acre container terminal on the industrial east side of Tacoma’s Blair Waterway. The terminal will be leased to a container terminal operator, Yusen Terminal Tacoma Inc (YTTI), a wholly owned subsidiary of NYK Line. The plan was
DP World-UAE has announced the completion of construction work in the first phase of stage 1 of its Mega Max container terminal in Jebel Ali Port and the start of work on the rest of the project. The new terminal has a quay of 1,200 metres long, with a handling capacity of 2.5 million TEU’s. [&helli
Margareth Øvrum, Statoil’s executive vice president for Technology & Projects, officially named the Tordis subsea installation in Tønsberg, eastern Norway, on 25 July prior to its North Sea installation.
Total today announced that its operating subsidiary in Nigeria, Elf Petroleum Nigeria Limited (EPNL), has signed an agreement with Nigeria’s Conoil Producing Limited to acquire a 40% interest in offshore Oil Mining Lease (OML) 136. Conoil, the most important indigenous Nigerian petroleum company, ho
Aker Yards has entered into a contract with Portosalvo Ltd.for building of one Platform Supply Vessel based of the design Aker PSV 09 CD. The value of the contract is approximately NOK 310 million. Delivery is scheduled in 4Q 2010.
EXMAR has applied today to MBZ, the Zeebrugge Port Authority, for a domain concession for the construction of a discharging and ship-to-ship transfer installation for LNG and high pressure natural gas in the Port of Zeebrugge (Belgium).
Asia’s first 10,000 teu (20-foot equivalent unit) container ship, classed by Lloyd’s Register, was christened today at Hyundai Heavy Industries’ (HHI) yard in Ulsan just days before its scheduled delivery to the China Ocean Shipping Group (COSCO), China’s biggest shipping line.
Until the early 1990s, crews on barges and boats chugging down China’s 2,400-year-old Grand Canal did not need familiar landmarks to tell them they were approaching the scenic city of Hangzhou. They could smell it. “The water was black,” said Zhu Jianbai, assistant director of the city government’s
A major oil pipeline has burst in a suburb of Vancouver, Canada, causing homes to be evacuated and threatening the city’s port. Witnesses described crude oil shooting out of the burst pipe. The oil then ran downhill and into an ocean inlet before the pipeline’s flow was shut off.
A 35-year-old man has been airlifted to safety after breaking his ankle while fishing on rocks in Fife. The holidaymaker had been on rocks behind the St Andrews Aquarium when he fell at 0345 BST.
A picture of two people thought to have died in a boating accident off the coast of the Isle of Wight has been released to help jog people’s memory. Heather Jayne Harris, 20, and Richard Perry, 28, from the West Midlands, are thought to have fallen overboard from their inflatable dinghy last Wednesd
During a press conference Monday (July 23rd) in Casablanca, the A.P. Moller Maersk Group for Maritime Transport and Port Management announced the opening of a new container terminal in Tangier port on the Mediterranean Sea. The new terminal cost 150 million euros to build and can handle 2 million 20
