On September 19 the joint-stock shipping company Latvijas kugnieciba (LK) ceremoniously accepted the second tanker – the vessel “Jurkalne”, from the Croatian ship factory 3.Maj, as LK Public Relations Service chief Marita Ozolina-Tumanovska informed LETA. Iveta Sulca, who is head of the European Com
Whitby Harbour will soon have a new
Two men have been rescued from a fishing boat which sank at the entrance to Ramsgate harbour in Kent. They were taken off the commercial fishing vessel, called Chananne, by lifeboat minutes before it went down, at about 0730 BST. The Maritime Accident Investigation Bureau is investigating the cause
A high-speed ferry service running along the chain of islands is just what Caribbean integration should be about. The ferries will be capable of moving large numbers of Caribbean people and products at reasonable rates up and down the chain of islands. At a press conference yesterday, Peoples Empowe
MDOT expects to award the contract for operation of the ferry across the Bay of St. Louis to an Indiana company that runs two ferries in Alabama, it announced Tuesday. Hornblower Marine Services, which opened its Gees Bend Ferry about an hour southwest of Montgomery on Monday, beat one other company
Mobile’s Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co. has sold its 30 percent stake in Austal USA to Austal Ltd., Bender President Tom Bender and Austal USA Chief Executive Officer Greg Metcalf confirmed Tuesday. The deal, which Metcalf said was struck last week, was valued at $20.6 million, according to a repo
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; TSE:7011) has received an order for six M501G gas turbines from Florida Power & Light (FPL) for its West County Energy Center project in Florida. The order was received through Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas, Inc. (MPSA), MHI’s power systems operation base
The International Oil Pollution Compensation (IOPC) has committed to facilitate the offloading of the remaining oil from the sunken tanker Solar 1, Governor JC Rahman Nava said on Tuesday. The IOPC, which is a worldwide group of oil refiners, will be the one to look for a company that could siphon t
As big questions hang over the country’s ports, new data shows the port of Auckland closing in on Tauranga in terms of the value of goods exported. The Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) figures for the year ended June show the value of exports through Auckland rising 14.6 per cent ($830 million) to $6.5
The Port of Melbourne has set a new monthly record in the amount of containers it moved in and out of the port last month. The record “throughput” totalled 177,906 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) – the industry standard container size – surpassing the previous best of 170,895 TEU in October 2005.
Cebu-based shipbuilding company Tsuneishi Heavy Industries Cebu Inc. (THICI) has made a commitment to invest US$100 million or roughly P5 billion in the expansion of its shipyard in Balamban town in Cebu’s western seaboard. THICI, a joint venture between Japan’s Tsuneishi Corp., one of the world’s l
Workers on Tuesday continued unloading cargo from a freighter whose hull remained wedged in a delicate coral reef off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, U.S. Coast Guard officials said. The 34,589-ton Clipper Lasco ran aground on Thursday, and Coast Guard officials want to make sure they don’t add to any
Three men had to be rescued from their yacht after it hit rocks and ended up on its side in rough seas off Devon in the early hours of Wednesday. The inshore lifeboat was launched to help the 40ft yacht, Ambition. The crew called for help after the yacht hit the Maer rocks off Exmouth […]
Drilling Rig Expected to Return to the Mubarek Field in Early November. Sky Petroleum, Inc., an oil and gas company with a development project in the United Arab Emirates, is pleased to provide an update on the drilling plans for the second well at the Mubarek Field. Sky Petroleum and Crescent Petro
