A remote-operated probe on Thursday found a sunken tanker in an upright position with little sign that it is continuing to leak oil that has tainted coastlines in the central Philippines, coast guard officials said. “It’s still upright, its not overturned … it is only leaning on the starboard side,”
The fishing vessel Zodiak flying the flag of Belize was arrested in southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk on suspicion of poaching on August 30, the head of the public relations department of the Federal Security Service
In July of 2006, W&W Marine completed a contract from Gulfstream Gas & Oil to conduct a video and sonar survey of a 74 mile stretch of pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico. The natural gas line which runs from Coden, Alabama to Florida
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Dredging operations that will facilitate major improvements to port facilities on the Charlottetown waterfront will get underway in a matter of days. Beaver Marine Ltd. of Halifax was awarded the contract for dredging operations that will remove 2,800 cubic metres of silt and other material from thi
A venture of two defense giants, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, will receive $54.8 million to design and develop a missile launch system for Navy combat ships. The company performing the contract is NetFires, which will work to meet the Navy’s deadline of integrating the non-line-of-sight launch syst
MANILA — Nine executives of a shipping company that owns a tanker that sank and caused a massive oil spill in Guimaras were ordered to be added to an immigration bureau watch list Wednesday, the justice department said.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, August 30, 2006 – The Texas-based Rowan Companies has announced a US$45 million (US$1 = $TT6) contract to drill four offshore oil wells in Trinidad and Tobago. The Rowan Gorilla III will soon relocate to Trinidad to begin a one-year term contract. The new contract is with an
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YOKOSUKA, Kanagawa Pref. (Kyodo) The Aegis-equipped cruiser USS Shiloh, which can intercept ballistic missiles, arrived Tuesday to take up new duties at the U.S. Navy base in Yokosuka. The 9,957-ton cruiser, which left its home port of San Diego, will replace the USS Chancellorsville and be forward-
The German-built Coastal Renaissance, B.C. Ferries’ new Super C-class vessel, began construction yesterday. The Coastal Renaissance is the first of three Super C-class vessels being built in Germany, and is expected to replace aging ferries between Departure Bay and Horseshoe Bay in 2008.
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HELPED by a spell of good weather, the major dredging contract at Eastland Port Ltd is now about half completed. Marine operations manager Captain Robert Mitchell said the contract carried out by the Port of Otago suction dredge New Era would take about another two to three weeks. He was confident t
After years of delays, plans for the dredging of Columbia’s lakes Kittamaqundi and Elkhorn are moving forward, as Columbia Association official are weighing technical proposals and hoping to award a contract by as soon as May. For years, both manmade lakes have been overcome with algae and sediment,
