Wagenborg Shipping chooses Bureau Veritas for a unique 1,700 teu, open-hatch containership at the IHC yard in Holland, built to BV class. Innovative vessel designs and using sophisticated software tools are ordered in this project. Egbert Vuursteen, CEO of Wagenborg, explains,
The Russian prosecution has launched criminal proceedings against the three fishermen who were on a schooner detained in disputed waters, while Japan is pressing Moscow for more details on the fatal shooting of one of the crewmembers. Russian maritime border guards opened fire on a Japanese fishing
G E Shipping has signed a contract to buy a 1,47,834 dwt., modern Suezmax crude carrier. The 1996 built double hull tanker is expected to join the Company’s fleet during Q3 FY 2006-07. The Company
Japan’s Coast Guard on Thursday chased away a group of Taiwanese nationalists as they tried to sail to Japanese-held islands also claimed by Taiwan, officials said. The group was filmed before they left northern Taiwan’s Keelong harbour, shouting at Taiwanese coast guard officials. “I am not afraid
Bharati Shipyard has bagged a contract from Reliance Industries for the construction of six vessels, including one diving support vessel, for its offshore terminal at Jamnagar. According to a release issued by Bharati to the BSE today, the contract value of the order is approximately Rs 120 crore.
CEOs of Korean shipbuilding companies had no time off even during summer vacation as the industry is enjoying soaring sales this year. Choi Gil-sun, CEO of Hyundai Heavy Industries, has been to Nigeria during his vacation with his executives to visit the company
On August 16 the Volgograd Shipyard laid down the first dry cargo ship of the 006RSD05 project for Beaufort Shipping Ltd (Malta). The cargo ship is 6,970 tons dwt, 140 meters long and 16.5 meters wide. This is the largest of Russian river-sea-going vessels. It is aimed for transporting breakbulk, ti
Three Mexican fishermen who disappeared in the Pacific Ocean nine months ago have been rescued nearly 8,000 kilometres from their home, saying they survived by eating seagulls, drinking rainwater and reading the Bible. A Taiwanese tuna boat scooped the men out of the water about halfway between Hawa
YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) Kanagawa Gov. Shigefumi Matsuzawa said Wednesday the prefecture has accepted the U.S. plan to deploy a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier at the naval port in Yokosuka in 2008. “As the utmost safety measures are being taken, inevitably we have to accept” the deployment, Matsuzawa told
A replacement for the Auckland Police launch Deodar ll will be operational by the end of 2007. In a joint announcement today by the Commissioner of Police Howard Broad and the Comptroller of Customs Martyn Dunne, the tender for the new vessel has been awarded to a New Zealand-owned and operated comp
Carnival Cruise Lines said that by August 2007 it would deploy a second year-round ship to New Orleans. The 2,758-passenger ship named Carnival Triumph would cement Carnival’s status as the number one cruise operator, Carnival said. The company claimed that it would be the only cruise line to operat
U.S. Customs officials evacuated people from one of North America’s largest ship-container terminals in Seattle and called in the bomb squad yesterday after a cargo container alarmed bomb-sniffing dogs. Seattle police determined there were no explosives in the container, but officials were still che
The Chinese government on Wednesday approved the national plan for the distribution of sea ports and the medium and long-term plans for the shipbuilding industry. The two plans were approved at a meeting of the State Council chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao. It was agreed at the meeting that a reasonab
Net profit Smit Internationale N.V. increases by 57% in the first half of 2006
