A salvage operation is resuming off the Devon coast at the wrecked cargo ship MSC Napoli after bad weather stopped work for nearly a week. The 62,000-tonne ship was grounded off Branscombe on 20 January after being damaged in the English Channel in severe weather.
Many major business groups from Japan, South Korea and Singapore have moved to invest in the Van Phong Economic Zone in Khanh Hoa Province, according to zone manager Nguyen Trong Hoa. Japan’s Sumitomo plans to invest in a US$4 billion power plant with a capacity of 2,640MW and may co-operate with Vi
Raytheon Company’s (NYSE: RTN) Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) has been awarded $41.4 million to provide the initial planning and acquisition of electronic systems onboard LPD 25, the ninth ship in the LPD 17 class.
Total announces that its wholly owned gas and power trading and marketing company Total Gas & Power Limited (TGPL) and Nigeria LNG Ltd (NLNG) have signed today a Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) for 1.375 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) of liquefied natural gas to be produced by NLNG train 7 for a
An Iranian website close to the Revolutionary Guard has said they have drones that can launch attacks on American warships in the Persian Gulf. This comes as the US has sent a second aircraft carrier to the Gulf in a move it says is intended to warn Iran that it intends to have a regional […]
Pro-whaling countries are meeting in Tokyo to plot a path towards lifting the moratorium on commercial whaling. Japan invited all 72 members of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), but anti-whaling countries such as Britain and Australia are staying away.
Cargotec’s MacGREGOR business area providing marine cargo handling solutions has received an order for port equipment from Norwegian ship owner Color Line. The equipment will be delivered in 2007–2008 for Color Line’s SuperSpeed service between Norway and Denmark. The new pair of ferries is being bu
The second submarine in four days arrived Monday at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, officials said. The USS Louisville, which has a crew of 20 officers and 127 enlisted sailors, will be undergoing maintenance and upgrades.
A barge struck a cruise ship Saturday on the Mississippi River, leaving a 30-foot gash on the ship and forcing the cancellation of a five-day cruise to the Caribbean. There were no injuries reported on Carnival Cruise Lines’ Fantasy ship or the barge, authorities and company officials said.
The Sea Shepherd ship, Robert Hunter, has been holed in its starboard bow, and its port stern section above the waterline, during a collision with the whale spotter ship Kaiko Maru , according to Sea Shepherd’s president Paul Watson. No injuries have been incurred by crew on both ships, and neither
The shipbuilding and shiprepairing industry has chalked up a commendable performance last year when exports of ships, boats, hovercrafts and floating structures rose to RM3.3 billion in 2006 against RM2.2 billion in 2005.
Aker Kvaerner reports strong fourth quarter 2006 results with an EBITDA of NOK 905 million and NOK 3 170 for the full year. The EBITDA, excluding Pulping & Power, was NOK 786 million for the fourth quarter and NOK 2 872 million for the year, an increase of 31 percent and 58 percent respectively comp
Technip has been awarded a contract by the exploration and production subsidiary of the national petroleum company of Thailand, PTT (Petroleum Authority of Thailand), for basic and detailed engineering of four generic wellhead platforms with associated subsea pipelines and tie-ins. The platforms wil
A new Navy report ambitiously predicts that in the distant future the service will buy many more surface combatants, plus other warships, without boosting the 30-year shipbuilding plan’s average annual funding. At issue is the production schedule for a notional destroyer called DDG(X), which the dep
