THE doomed Safmarine Agulhas has finally snapped in two on the western breakwater of the East London harbour. South African Maritime Safety Association (Samsa) spokesperson Captain Peter Kroon said the 17000-ton ship
Environment officials say an oil spill off the B.C. coast was the best of a bad situation. More than 29,000 litres of heavy bunker oil spewed into the water after a cargo ship punctured a fuel tank while leaving port. The wind pushed it about 500 metres into Howe Sound, and some seeped into the [&he
Aker Yards and Damen Shipyards Group have finalized the process of establishing joint ownership of the Damen Shipyards Okean, as announced on June 2 2006. The plans involve increasing the output capacity of the yard to 60,000 tonnes per year, and will contribute to a strengthened shipbuilding capaci
The Savannah, the world’s first nuclear-powered cargo and passenger ship, will be rescued from the James River “Ghost Fleet” and restored by a Norfolk shipyard. Colonna’s Shipyard won a nearly one million dollar contract to repair and spruce up the maritime relic. The ship is a national historic lan
Human error was the cause of the latest crash of a vessel from Sydney Ferries’ accident-prone fleet, a report by the NSW Office of Transport Safety Investigations has found. No-one was injured when the RiverCat Betty Cuthbert slammed into a moored yacht and motor launch on January 11 this year after
Search for a semi-submerged Russian ship, the Kapella, began in the Tatar Strait near the Sakhalin port city of Nevelsk early on Monday. The tugboat Topaz, arriving from Vladivostok, conducts the search. Late on Thursday, the Kapella collided with an Italian ship, got a hole of about five square met
Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), through Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS), has secured a groundbreaking contract to design and build its first drilling rig for deployment in Brazilian waters. The US$270 million contract from Brazilian drilling contractor Queiroz Galv
An oil spill reportedly covering 100 hectares of Barangay Sangat, San Fernando town
Terschelling, The Netherlands. Transas took part in the MARSIM 2006 Conference in Terschelling, The Netherlands, from 25th to 30th June. This year MARSIM was hosted by the Willem Barentzs Maritime Institute in cooperation with the Netherlands Defence Academy, the Maritime Research Institute Netherla
With 14,000 laborers toiling day and night, the first of Dubai’s three palm-shaped islands is finally about to get its first residents. The Palm Jumeirah, a 12-square-mile island group, is part of what’s billed as the largest land-reclamation project in the world, the product of five years of brute
BP Exploration Alaska, Inc. has begun an orderly and phased shutdown of the Prudhoe Bay oil field following the discovery of unexpectedly severe corrosion and a small spill from a Prudhoe Bay oil transit line. Shutting down the field will take days to complete. Over time, these actions will reduce A
BMW Oracle Racing capped three days of brilliant racing by claiming the prize for the German Sailing Grand Prix after posting four additional wins yesterday. On another sparkling day in Kiel, thousands of sailing fans and hundreds of boaters turned out again for the final day of the first-ever Ameri
New Zealand scored a one-two in the 420 world yachting championships off the Spanish coast today (NZ time). Carl Evans and Peter Burling won the gold medal and a second New Zealand crew, Simon Cooke and Scott Illingworth, won the silver, with both achieving the top placings with a race to spare. The
The second ropax vessel of the series of five sister vessels has been delivered by Fincantieri to Finnlines in Ancona, Italy. The name of the vessel is MS Finnmaid and she will start plying under the Finnish flag between Helsinki, Finland and Travem
