Aker Kvaerner has been awarded a limited notice to proceed by the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation (OVEC) for a new environmental control system at the Kyger Creek power plant. The facility is located in Cheshire, Ohio, and Aker Kvaerner’s portion of the project is approximately USD 105 million.
Wild Oats XI was leading Skandia across the Bass Straight as the super-maxi duo approached the half-way mark of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race last evening. Skandia has been keeping up with the 2005 line honours winner with only 4.5 nautical miles separating the pair.
A working interest offered to Statoil in a deepwater block off Egypt marks the second award of exploration acreage recently secured by the group in this north African country. “We’re very satisfied with this,” says Geir Richardsen, exploration manager for Egypt and Libya. “It gives us an even better
The yacht leading the Rolex Sydney-Hobart Race on IRC handicap sank and six others retired with various types of damage yesterday to cap a day of drama that began with the dismasting of two of the leading maxi yachts, ABN Amro One and Maximus, in the early hours of the morning.
Capt. Zhang Liang, Vice President of COSCO Group, on behalf of Capt.Wei, attended the inauguration ceremony of marine engine simulator which was donated by COSCO to the International Maritime University of Panama (IMUP).
A North Korean cargo ship sank off the northeast coast of China leaving 17 missing, though eight others have been rescued, the official Chinese Xinhua news agency said.
A Maltese-registered, 23,000-ton cargo ship, the Tzini, is being detained in Taiwan after having spilt some 110 tonnes of fuel onto the Taiwanese coastline near Suao Harbour after its tanks were punctured – creating an environmental hazard and halting fishing activities in the area.
Significant new contracts are due to be announced in the New Year by Belfast’s Harland and Wolff shipyard, it was revealed today. The news came as the world’s largest car ferry arrived in the yard’s main building dock for essential repairs and maintenance work.
For the Hawaii, the newest Virginia-class fast-attack nuclear submarine, the party was a cheerful bon voyage. After seven years of construction, the $2.5-billion Hawaii — Electric Boat’s 100th nuclear submarine — was handed over to the Navy in a chilly dockside ceremony at the company’s Groton shipy
A federal plan to screen port workers could have unintended consequences for some local shipyards – driving up the cost to build and repair Navy ships while doing nothing to improve security, industry officials say. The new worker credential system, expected to take effect next year, is aimed at bee
Gujarat is set to become the world’s shipbuilding yard. While players like L&T, Adani, Pipavav Shipyard and ABG Shipyard are already present in the state, over a dozen new players have also queued up to set up ship building and repair yards. While ABG is looking at setting up ‘more than one’ yard, a
An affiliate of Vietnam shipbuilding giant Vinashin has just launched a 13,500-DWT (dead weight ton) freighter, which it built for the Vinashin Ocean Shipping Company. The oil tanker to be 145m-long, 20m-wide and 11m-height was built by the northern Hai Phong city-based Bach Dang Shipyard and state-
Statoil is expanding its involvement with biological fuels by mixing 5% biodiesel in normal autodiesel oil for sale in Norway. “We’re continuously improving our fuels in order to make them better for the environment,” says Dag Roger Rinde, president of Statoil Norge AS.
Three men whose bodies were found in a shipping container on a building site in Berkshire have been identified. Kirpal Singh, 30, Manjit Singh, 35 and 21-year-old Gurdeep Singh Deol, from Southall, Middlesex, were found dead at the site in Whitley, near Reading.
