Washington State Department of Transportation/Washington State Ferries last week took a major step toward launching the first new vessels in the system since 1999 by issuing request for proposal documents for the design and construction of four new ferries. RFD documents include technical informatio
Royal Vopak announces two expansion projects in Asia. At its Sebarok Terminal in Singapore, the company will add 216,000 cbm fuel oil storage capacity to the current capacity of 1,037,800 cbm. In Vietnam near Ho Chih Minh City, Vopak has acquired an 80% interest in a terminal to serve the chemicals
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WAIHEKE Shipping has formally apologised to Hauraki Gulf officials for using Motuihe Island beaches as a makeshift shipyard. The Auckland Regional Council has released a letter of apology it received from the Half Moon Bay company in which it admits regret for its actions (Times, August 14). The let
Canada’s Christensen Yachts Ltd., which makes yachts for the ultra-rich, has chosen Tennessee as the site of a new shipyard. CYL will build yachts costing as much as $50 million each at a new $20 million facility on the shore of Tellico Reservoir southwest of Knoxville, the company said Wednesday.
Hyundai Heavy Industries(HHI) completed and sailed out to install an offshore gas platform, part of Korea
Miami, FL. – The Coast Guard continues to search for one person from a Panamanian-flagged ship that sank last night 100 miles east of San Andres, Colombia. The Panamanian government notified the Coast Guard that the motor vessel Dayana, a 495-foot car-carrier freight ship, had sank and requested ass
Overfishing and increasing pollution are destroying one of the world’s great fishing grounds in the East China Sea, Chinese state media said Wednesday. Eighty-one percent of the sea has been rated in the second-worst of five pollution grades, up from just 53 percent in 2000, the Xinhua news agency r
Carnival Cruise Lines said today that it has chosen the Port of Miami for its next new fleet addition, the 2,974-passenger Freedom, now under construction at Italy’s Fincantieri shipyard. Freedom will replace the Carnival Triumph at the Port of Miami with year-round, week-long Eastern and Western Ca
San Rafael company has agreed to pay a $735,000 fine to settle a complaint charging it with dumping dredged material from its disposal vessels more than 200 times outside designated disposal areas of the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
A small container ship sank on Thursday while being loaded in Antwerp harbour, killing the captain, a spokesman for the Antwerp fire brigade said. Divers were searching for a second person who was unaccounted for and three others workers had been found and were being treated for hypothermia, said Jo
New Delhi, Aug. 17 (PTI): The Supreme Court today allayed fears of environmental activists that toxic laden Norwegian Ship S S Norway, beached at Alang Coast in Gujarat, will be dismantled in contravention of its order saying it knows how to deal with the violators. “We have not permitted breaking o
THE possibility of salvaging a fishing vessel that ran aground just south of Swakopmund this week was still uncertain yesterday afternoon. The strong south-westerly wind experienced at the coast over the last few weeks caused Novanam Fishing Company’s vessel Kolmanskop to break from its moorings at
Renaissance Services plans to acquire a platform supply vessel and a rescue ship to support its oil service contract business in the Caspian Sea, a report said. The platform service vessel called Citadel and the emergency response and recovery (ERR) ship named Bakki will join the fleet by next month
