Acting on behalf of the buyer, Ocean Independence CEO Peter Hürzeler has sold yet another impressive vessel. 50m Oceanco Altavida, designed by Gerhard Gilgenast and with a Don Starkey interior to accommodate 12 guests, was built in 1993 and substantially refitted in 2005.
With Indian economy expected to register consistent growth, India’s export-import trade was expected to increase as well as the proportion of containerised cargo to total cargo handled. The container traffic at the major ports, which stood at 4.74 Mn TEU (equivalent to 59.73 million tons) in 2005-06
Samsung Heavy Industries has won orders worth a total of US$10 billion in the first half of this year. The Korean shipbuilder on Sunday said it landed two orders for drill ships over the weekend worth a total of $1.2 billion. That brings total orders so far to $10.1 billion, a global industry record
The Pasha Bulker is less than 50 metres from water deep enough to refloat it, New South Wales Ports Minister Joe Tripodi has said. The grounded carrier is facing out to sea after being spun 135 degrees during yesterday’s salvage work, during which it sprang a double oil leak.
Cargotec’s MacGREGOR business area providing marine cargo handling solutions has received orders for 42 ship cranes for vessels that will be built in China and in Taiwan. The value of the orders is approximately EUR 30 million. The orders have been booked in the second quarter of 2007.
Golden Ocean Group Limited (‘Golden Ocean’ or the ‘Company’) will in the second quarter of 2007 realise a loss on freight derivative activities of $15 million. $7 million of this loss has been realised in the second quarter of 2007 while the remaining part of the loss is adjustments for market to ma
The 32nd America’s Cup Match is on ‘pause’ today, a scheduled off day on the race calendar. Yesterday, shifty, unstable conditions saw racing postponed for the day, making this effectively a two day break in the schedule.
The Coast Guard on Monday rescued a man from the water after he reportedly jumped from a cruise ship off the coast of Florida. The Coast Guard was alerted around 11:45 p.m. Sunday by the Carnival cruise ship Liberty that Scott Durrin, 29, had possibly jumped overboard, the Coast Guard said in a stat
An Iranian cargo ship MV Mir Demand sank in the Bay of Bengal after its engine broke down in the deep sea, 60 nautical miles from Bangladesh’s southwestern sea port Mongla on Sunday.
South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries Co., said on Monday it had won an order worth about $600 million to build a drillship for a company in the Americas.
Port officials in the Indian city of Kochi have rescued the 15 crewmembers of an Albanian ship that sank off the city’s coast Sunday. The Albanian cargo ship M V Maria had signaled for help Saturday night after the vessel was found to be leaking severely and Kochi authorities immediately dispatched
Beside the operations within product tanker shipping Broström has a network of ship agencies in several ports along the Swedish coast. They offer ship clearance, forwarding and chartering services for ship owners and other industry customers. One of the companies within the network is Percy Tham i O
Two companies have been entrusted with the task of extracting marine diesel and furnace slag from the sunken eritria ship ‘M V den den’ off Mangalore coast at Tannirbavi beach near new Mangalore Port on last Saturday.
Fourteen yachtsmen were rescued by helicopter from the hull of brand new 55ft yacht Bounder after it capsized with severe keel problems in a stormy Solent this Saturday, 30 June.
