The captain of a Japanese fishing vessel detained on suspicion of poaching by Russian border guards in a fatal incident will remain in Russia until trial, an aide to local prosecutors said Monday. A row broke out August 16 between Moscow and Tokyo after the border guards shot dead a Japanese crewmem
Port Saint. A Greek freight ship has collided into a shipyard at Port Saint, northeastern Egypt, near the Suez Canal, online edition of Greek newspaper Naftemporiki reads today. According to the port authorities the collision caused substantial damage to the front part of the ship.
For the first time, a REpower type 5M wind turbine has been set up on the open sea. In the Scottish North Sea, in the Moray Firth, the first of a total of two turbines for the “Beatrice” demonstrator wind farm has just been set up on a lattice-like jacket structure, piled to the seabed […]
Underwater inspection is up this week in the accident site of Petron chartered M/T Solar 1, some 15 nautical miles south of Guimaras island. Hi-tech sonar equipment will also do the job in locating the exact location of the submerged tanker set to be aided by the vessel’s Emergency Position Indicato
LOS ANGELES – A crane from a cargo ship hit a bridge in the Los Angeles Harbor Sunday, forcing closure of the bridge for nearly two hours, authorities said. There were no injuries and there was no serious damage to the Vincent Thomas Bridge, which reopened Sunday night, said police spokesman Mike Lo
IN A move aimed at stemming the outflow of capital for the acquisition of marine transport products, especially ships, the Government will seek to strengthen the capacity and capability of the shipbuilding and ship repair sector in the country under the recently-launched Third Industrial Master Plan
MANTEO – Somewhere in the midpoint between war and politics, Luther Daniels spent a memorable chapter in his long life as the chief engineer on the nation’s first and only nuclear-powered commercial ship. The Savannah, built in 1959 and retired in 1972, was recently towed from the James River Reserv
NEW YORK: The shipbuilding industry in the US Gulf Coast is still struggling to expand and grow one year after Hurricane Katrina caused widespread devastation in the several Gulf coast states, industry sources said last Friday. Shipyards in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Alabama are being squeeze
An action plan to assist the authorities in Lebanon with the clean-up of coastal oil pollution and to prevent any spread to neighbouring countries was agreed on August 17 at a meeting in Athens convened by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UN
The Ho Chi Minh City-based Saigon Shipmarine Company, an affiliate of shipbuilding giant Vinashin, secured Sunday an accord to build two 6,500 DWT freighters for Japanese Kanematsu Corporation. The two ships would be Shipmarine
The Naming Ceremony for the eighth and ninth Armidale Class Patrol Boats to be launched was held today at the Austal shipyard in Henderson, Western Australia. Fourteen patrol boats in total are to be delivered to the Royal Australian Navy. The 56 metre, all-aluminium monohull vessels were named
Dutch Environment Secretary Pieter van Geel was to hold talks with his Turkish counterpart Osman Pepe in Turkey on Monday in an attempt to resolve a dispute about a ship containing 54 tons of asbestos. The Otapan, which had been lying in Amsterdam since 1999, left on July 28 under tow for Aliaga, no
Des Moines has been towed from the Philadelphia shipyard en route to Texas to be scrapped 45 years after it was decommissioned. The 717-foot ship was ordered during World War II, but wasn’t finished until after the war ended. It was one of the largest cruisers of its time, but it never saw combat.
Ecosphere Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: ESPH), the Stuart, Florida-based technology innovation company for homeland security, marine, disaster relief and defense applications, announced today that it has shipped the initial M3500 Robotic Systems to begin coating removal services for BAE Systems Ship Re
