Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) is proud to announce the Wednesday, March 28th christening of the sixth of its eight 5,888-TEU vessels, built by the Imabari Shipbuilding Group.
Transas builds on successful VTS partnerships in Australia and New Zealand. In May 2006 Transas Marine Pacific working in partnership with Transas Marine UK and our local distributor (Electrotech Australia) completed latest VTS installation in Australia – at the Port of Fremantle.
In an era of charter yacht crew shortages, this beauty attracts top-notch professionals Imagine yourself on a yacht charter along Turkey’s storied Turquoise Coast. You spend your morning snorkeling in the crystal clear waters, here and there glimpsing Byzantine amphora bearing testimony to the regio
Sunshine Coast Brisbane to Gladstone Race crews have sensibly packed extra dry clothes in their sea bags in preparation to spend a wet and windy Easter at sea. Their pre-race preparation has been prompted by the strong winds and foam crested waves that relentlessly crashed over the rocks at Pt Cartw
Aside from seeing boats and motors, visitors to the Palm Beach Boat Show, which closed a four-day run Sunday, also got to look over thousands of accessories, some of them not exclusively for marine use.
Royal Dutch Shell plc announced today that Jeroen van der Veer will continue as Chief Executive until 30 June 2009. Mr. Van der Veer became Royal Dutch Shell’s first Chief Executive, following the unification of the company in 2005.
ABG Shipyard informed that the company has secured a repeat order for construction of 1 No. APS 100 MT Tug at a price of USD 13.50 million from Lamnalco, Cyprus. This is the 12th ship order from Lamnalco and the company has already delivered 6 vessels and other 5 vessels are under construction.
Dutch dredging contractor Royal Boskalis Westminster has described what it called “unprecedented heights” in the level of activity in the international dredging market, with many large projects still in the pipeline.
Up to £1m is to be spent on improving the fish quay at a fishing port.
Ministers have been accused of trying to ban scallop fishing in the Firth of Lorn without justification.
Describing markets conditions in the various parts of the world in which it is active, Dutch dredging and marine contractor Van Oord says that in the Middle East soaring petroleum income is increasingly being invested in economic development in the region. “This is one of the reasons that our activi
M’A blessing ritual by chieftains marked this Tuesday, in Soyo city, the northern Zaire province, the start dredging of a navigation channel and the hydraulic levelling of 100 hectares, to be connected to the space for installing the factory specialised on the exploring of the natural liquefied gas,
BP Norge AS has awarded Aker Kvaerner a service contract for provision of personnel and equipment for well intervention services for the Ula, Valhall, Hod, Tambar and Skarv fields on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The contract is for a firm period of five years plus a two year optional period. The
Total announces that development of the Jura gas and condensate field has been launched, just four months after it was discovered. The Jura discovery represents more than 170 million barrels of oil equivalent of proved and probable reserves and is located in the Alwyn Area (100% owned and operated b
