A DANISH cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates earlier this month has run out of food and fresh water at sea, a Kenyan maritime official said today. The MV Danica White and its five Danish crew members were carrying building materials from Dubai to Kenya when it was seized off Somalia in the world’s
A Norway-based PetroProd D&P I, a wholly owned subsidiary of PetroProd Ltd, has signed an EPC contract with Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd of Singapore on June 22, 2007 for the construction of one MSC/Gusto CJ70 jack up rig at a cost of approximately USD 440 million to be delivered in 2010.
Salvage teams have laid the three anchors and connecting sea cables that they will use in a bid to winch the Pasha Bulker from a sandbar off a Newcastle beach on the NSW coast. Newcastle Port Corporation spokesman Keith Powell said the anchors and cables had been successfully positioned by tug boats
Rigs to be built to Keppel FELS’s proprietary KFELS N Class jackup and SSDT 3600E semisubmersible drilling tender designs. Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Corporation Limited, has secured two rig contracts amounting to US$534 million (approximately S$820 millio
A ballasting operation continued in Tasman Bay, near Nelson, on Sunday. A load of iron sand slurry on the ship shifted in rough waters off the coast of Taranaki on Friday, causing the ship to list.
It’s all square at the 32nd America’s Cup after Emirates Team New Zealand scored a come from behind win on Sunday afternoon over the Defender, Alinghi. The Kiwis have got a huge monkey off their back. Prior to Sunday’s win, Team New Zealand had dropped six consecutive America’s Cup Match races to Al
An engineer’s mistake left ‘Denden,’ the Eritrean ship, capsized off the Mangalore Coast on Saturday, killing two crew members. The ship was supposed to be in the UAE, with its load of iron slag from KIOCL, on Saturday. It had sailed off from the New Mangalore Port on June 20 at 6.30 am.
Sailors have been warned to check their boat engines are in full working order after a craft was rescued for the third time in five months. The two-man crew of the Abbie Rose were fishing a mile off Tynemouth when their propeller fell off, leaving them drifting helplessly.
ONE of the Viking warships that struck terror into the hearts of thousands of Europeans has been recreated for the first voyage of its kind in almost 1,000 years.
3,200,000 TEU Terminal to Open 2009. APM Terminals, the terminal arm of the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group of Denmark has been invited to lead a joint venture to develop, own and operate the Shenzhen Dachan Bay Phase 2 Container Terminal, together with the Dachan Bay Port Investment and Development Co.,
Fishermen in Sussex say a court battle over the way they haul their boats out of the sea could bankrupt them. Arun Council questioned the way they winched their vessels on to Bognor beach after a wire snapped and injured a man on the promenade last year.
A boat worth more than £1m has sunk after it caught fire at Preston Docks. The Ocean Quest boat, which had been built by a group of local people over three-and-a-half years, caught fire late on Sunday night.
Three men have been rescued by an off-duty coastguard officer after his mother spotted their speedboat sinking in a sea loch. The men were thrown into the water when their boat was swamped by a wave on Loch Sween in Argyll.
Channel Island sea rescue teams were called out to help a cargo ship which had lost power. Cargo ship Burhou I called for assistance after she suffered an engine breakdown off Corbiere Point in gale force winds.
