President George W. Bush will deliver the principal address at the christening ceremony of the Navy
Nicaragua has announced plans to build a waterway linking the Pacific and Atlantic that would carry bigger ships than the existing Panama Canal. President Enrique Bolanos said the new route – which would cost $18bn (
Addax Petroleum Corporation (TSX: AXC) (“Addax Petroleum” or the “Corporation”) today announced that it has successfully replaced the floating production storage and offloading vessel (“FPSO”) on the OML123 property offshore Nigeria, with an upgraded FPSO contracted from Fred Olsen Production AS (“F
A cruise ship has docked in Falmouth carrying passengers – many from the South West – who say their trip of a lifetime became a nightmare. Passengers endured two hurricanes and threatened a mutiny on board the MV Athena on its way to north America. A 70-year-old man, thought to be from Sark in the [
With investments amounting to over DKK 40 billion A.P.M
Japanese automobile giant Mitsubishi Motors is looking for a deep water port to set up the country`s first car terminal in Gujarat. The investment for the project is estimated at Rs 30 billion, reports Business Standard. The car terminal will be designed to handle import and export from big car-carr
It’s called the Disney Wonder, and the massive 964-foot-long cruise ship – with its Mickey Mouse ears and Disney characters adorned bow and stern – was turning heads Tuesday along the Portsmouth and Norfolk downtown waterfronts. The Port Canaveral, Fla.-based Disney Wonder, one of two ships in the D
Five months ago the entry list for this year’s Rolex Middle Sea Race stood at just over 20… a record-breaking run of entries looked at risk of ending. But, with three weeks to go, the fleet suddenly shot to 66, eight more than last year’s chart-topping 58. The list comprises some of the biggest and
Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands Dr Orlando Smith says the recent launch of the Virgin Islands Shipping Registry (VISR) is a fulfilment of the final conditions for the Territory to operate as a Category One Shipping Registry and a pledge by Government. The newest Government department wi
The defence ministry will shortly place an order to buy 126 multi-role combat aircraft and intends to complete the procurement by March 2007. This is in step with the new defence procurement procedure framed by the ministry. Defence minister Pranab Mukherjee has said the procurement procedure is bei
With already seven Damen crew tenders in operation in the Gulf of Mexico, another Stan Tender has been delivered to Naviera Integral in Ciudad del Carmen, Mexico. The vessel will be used for crew transportation between shore and the oil rigs of PEMEX.
Global ocean-carrier APL, the Port of Seattle and numerous public safety agencies have completed a comprehensive test of security procedures at the port. The day-long exercise on September 28 tested the ability of APL, the Port of Seattle, the FBI, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Coast
SBM Offshore N.V. is pleased to announce that the Company has recently received a number of orders in both the lease and the turnkey supply segments of its activities. SBM Offshore has secured contracts as follows: Semi-Submersible Floating Production Unit for Thunder Hawk, Gulf of Mexico; Mobile Of
ONE of the world’s most luxurious superyachts is having $1 million worth of work done in Brisbane because silting of the Coomera River has blocked entry to the Gold Coast marine precinct. To make matters worse, the decision to stop the $80 million superyacht travelling up the silted waterway was mad
