China has banned commercial fishing for three months along a 1,000km (620 mile) stretch of the Yangtze River in a bid to protect threatened fish stocks. Fishing boats will be banned from trawling in central Hubei province and Chongqing Municipality, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
The first containers salvaged from the stricken vessel, the MSC Napoli, are due to arrive at Portland Port in Dorset. A shuttle barge, carrying about 70 containers, is travelling from the ship’s beached position in Lyme Bay.
Supermarket chain Asda is to stop selling monkfish amid concerns over depleting stocks and the way it was being fished. The retail giant says it will no longer supply the restaurant favourite until there are more sustainable ways of catching it.
On January 29th 2007, mv Slidur, was delivered to her owner, a single ship KG under management of Reederei Jan Kahrs, Jork, Germany. This vessel, a Damen Container Feeder 800, is the last out of a series of five for Reederei Jan Kahrs. The vessel was built at Damen Shipyards Galati as yard number 86
Statoil has awarded Aker Kvaerner a contract for modification of the Norne FPSO topside for tie-back of the Alve satellite field. The contract is a full EPCI contract including engineering and procurement, through construction to installation. The contract value is approximately NOK 390 million and
The transportation unit of Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras said Wednesday that it will pay US$1.2 billion (euro925 million) to build 10 oil tankers. Brazil’s National Development Bank will finance the shipbuilding project with 2.47 billion reals (US$1.16 million; euro895 million), the press off
Operator Statoil has awarded Aker Kvaerner Offshorepartner (Akop) a contract worth NOK 390 million in relation to the Norwegian Sea’s Alve development. During the first quarter of this year, several Alve contracts worth around NOK 900 million will be agreed.
Will Introduce “SeaDream’s Caribbean” In Winter Season 2007-2008 SeaDream Yacht Club has announced it will not return to cruising South America in the winter season of 2007-2008. SeaDream II, one of the company’s twin, luxury, mega-yacht cruisers that was to have cruised South America between Novemb
IT took a crew of 24 to guide Roman Abramovich’s super-yacht into Poole Quay on Thursday. The multinational team – some of them rumoured to be ex SAS – came from Slovakia, Nepal, Luxembourg, Australia and the UK, although the Russian owner of Chelsea FC was nowhere to be seen.
The beaching of a ship near a World Heritage Site was carried out to stop a wider environmental catastrophe, the House of Commons has heard. Transport Minister Stephen Ladyman told MPs that oil would have washed up on beaches for many years if the MSC Napoli had sunk in the English Channel.
An anti-whaling group searching Antarctic waters for a Japanese whaling fleet with the aim of disrupting its operations said both its vessels will soon be “pirate ships” following a decision by Britain to deregister one its vessels.
SHE’S the Gold Coast’s own multimillion-dollar baby — and now she’s stealing hearts overseas. The $13 million Cambria II, designed and built at the Gold Coast Marine Precinct, has been shortlisted as a finalist in the prestigious World Superyacht Awards — the Oscars of boating — with the winner anno
Autoship Systems Corporation (ASC) is pleased to announce another Autoload® installation on the new semi-submersible platform, Independence Hub. Jim Rohr & Associates (JRA) of Houston, Texas and a Dealer with ASC, was selected by Anadarko Petroleum Corporation to provide Autoload-Offshore for the ne
DML, the through-life defence support specialist, has successfully secured the widely competed contract, awarded by the Submarine Support IPT (SubIPT), to manage and operate the communications shore development facility (CSDF) to support Vanguard class submarines. The move further reinforces DML’s i
