On Monday, April 9, 2007, the Port of Detroit will welcome the ocean-going vessel, M/V Sandviken, to inaugurate the 2007 shipping season. The M/V Sandviken, a Bahamian flagged vessel, is expected to arrive at 7:00 a.m. at the Nicholson Terminal & Dock Company.
Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited (Keppel O&M), through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, has secured contracts worth S$280 million from repeat customers. Prosafe Production Services Pte Ltd has awarded Keppel Shipyard, a contract to repair and convert a 276,000 dwt VLCC tanker, the M/T Navarin, into a
The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard plans to beef up security, ‘Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is considering expanding the two existing restricted areas so that access to the entire island is controlled,’ said Danna Eddy, deputy public affairs officer for the Kittery Port Authority.
A Devon beach which was the scene of scavenging after cargo washed ashore from a beached ship is being reopened to the public. Branscombe Mouth beach was closed after it was littered with debris and cargo from the MSC Napoli in January.
State-owned PetroVietnam will invite foreign companies to bid for exploration and production contracts for seven offshore blocksin a bid to boost the country’s crude oil and gas output, a newswire reported Thursday.
An operation to evacuate up to 1,600 people from a stricken cruise ship has been completed off the coast of the Greek island of Santorini. The Greek-flagged Sea Diamond issued a distress signal after running aground and starting to take on water.
Students from an Oxfordshire college were among 1,600 people evacuated from a cruise ship off the Greek coast. The daughter of a former mayor of Reading was among the 30 students on board the Greek-flagged Sea Diamond, which ran aground near Santorini.
As 15 Royal Navy sailors and marines held in Iran are reunited with their families, what lessons can the forces learn from the returning crew?
Cornish fishermen have been asked to contact the armed forces minister with any information they have about the mysterious sinking of a French trawler. Five crew members died when the Bugaled Breizh sank off the Lizard in 2004.
At 16:20, the Race Committee postponed racing for the day at the 32nd America’s Cup, after the fleet was held at sea on a cold, wet spring day. When the 12 Cup teams left Port America’s Cup for racing, they were faced with a cold, light Northerly breeze and a heavy swell. Rain squalls soon […
On the 4th of April Codralux S.A., member of the Jan De Nul Group, signed a contract for the construction of a 6000 ton Side Stone Dumping Vessel. This contract follows less than a month after the signing of a contract for the construction of two large selfpropelled cutter suction dredgers (see the
Officials in the central province of Quang Ngai have launched a push to develop the region’s under-performing fisheries sector. With 130km of coastline and six seaports, leaders believe current production equivalent to about 8 per cent of provincial gross domestic product isn’t living up to its pote
Samsung Heavy Industries, the world’s second-largest shipyard, will start Wednesday to build the world’s biggest liquefied natural gas carrier for an Exxon Mobil project in Qatar.
SINGAPORE’S oil and gas services firm KS Energy Services yesterday said it had formed a joint venture to build its first offshore oil drilling rig at a Middle East shipyard in a deal worth US$148 million.
