Iran’s Arabic language television station on Saturday broadcast footage showing an American aircraft carrier cruising in Persian Gulf waters, which it said was taken by an unmanned Iranian drone. The brief minute-long film, which was shown on Al-Alam television’s evening news bulletin, had a wide re
A tanker ship that ran aground off Long Island is now afloat, according to NewsChannel 4 News. It was freed from the bottom of East Rockaway inlet just after midnight and is now headed to a pier in New York harbor to undergo inspection.
Managing director of Engineering Coastal and Ports Department affiliated to the Shipping Lines and Ports Organization said that through execution of a comprehensive plan the capacity of the commercial ports in the country would increased up to 160m tons per year, IRNA reported. On the sidelines of t
JFE Holdings Inc. is considering taking over Hitachi Zosen Corp.’s shipbuilding operations, which are now conducted by Universal Shipbuilding Corp., a joint venture between the two firms, sources said Saturday. The deal would mark Osaka-based Hitachi Zosen’s effective departure from shipbuilding. It
Two crewmen were killed and another seriously injured yesterday after their oil tanker was hit by huge waves in the Pentland Firth, one of the world’s most notorious stretches of water. The men were believed to have been standing on the deck of the 42,000-tonne tanker when it was caught in a gale fo
Total announces today that it has signed agreements to sell its power generation interests in Argentina. Since 2001, Total has held a 63.9% interest in Central Puerto S.A., one of Argentina
An international ports operator is to invest
A ship has been escorted into Oban after it ran aground on Mull when one of the Norwegian crew fell asleep at the wheel, Clyde Coastguard said.
The FBI has been called in to help in the investigation surrounding the mysterious disappearance of a Fife pensioner from a cruise ship. James Ewan, 73, from Burntisland was reported missing from the Celebrity Century after it had set sail from Madeira on Friday, 3 November. The ship was going from
Dighi Port Ltd (DPL), a Balaji Infra Projects venture, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Jan De Nul NV of Belgium for developing the port. The Vijay Kalantri group firm will own, operate, manage, finance and market the port. DPL has signed a 50-year concession agreement with the Ma
The revolutionary EPS
St. Petersburg’s Severnaya Verf shipyard laid the keel Friday of the Stoiky corvette for Russia’s Navy. The Stoiky will be the fourth corvette of the Project 20380 series, after the Steregushchy, the Soobrazitelny and the Boiky, designed by the Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau and built at the shi
St. Petersburg’s Admiralty Shipyards held a ceremony Friday to lay the keel of the Sevastopol, a serially produced multipurpose submarine. Admiralty Shipyards said in October it would begin construction of a fourth-generation diesel-electric submarine in November. ‘The Project-677, or Lada-class die
With India becoming a leading maritime power, the government has embarked upon an ambitious plan to set up two state-of-the-art ship building yards in the country at a cost of Rs 5,000 crores each. These would be greenfield ship building yards with one each in east and west coast. The yards would ha
