Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) said Monday that its West Coast refineries do not anticipate a crude shortage in the near term as a result of BP PLC’s (BP) decision to shut its Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska. The company’s 143,000-barrel-a-day Puget Sound refinery in Anacortes, Wash., does run a fl
A South Korean fishing boat with 25 crew members seized by pirates off Somalia in April has arrived in Kenya. The Dongwon-ho 628 was released after the alleged payment of a ransom of several hundred thousand dollars. Wearing tattered clothes, the sailors were greeted with cheers from diplomats and j
Rescue workers conduct rescue operation in the sinking container cargo ship “Hanlun” near Dachandao Island in Shenzhen of south China’s Guangdong Province on Aug. 5, 2006. The ship, which set off from Guangzhou, capital of Guandong Province, sank in the sea near Dachandao Island, with 8 crew rescued
A stricken bulk carrier, the Shearwater, that had been taking on water arrived in Durban harbour on Sunday, port control said. Water has been successfully pumped out of the carrier in heavy seas off northern KwaZulu-Natal and the vessel was no longer listing, officials said. Earlier a spokesperson f
An old vessel brought from Malaysia for scrapping sank in the Bay near Sandwip channel Sunday. Sitakunda police said the ship weighing about 1000 tonnes brought by Rahman Ship Breaking Company arrived at the outer anchorage on August 2. The vessel started sinking in the Bay Saturday as water gushed
The Apostle Andrew Russian oceanic yacht finalized a 112-day Antarctica voyage in St. Petersburg on Sunday. The 19-meter-long sailing boat
A helicopter survey of the damage left by 50 tonnes of bunker fuel that has spilled in Howe Sound, north of Vancouver, confirmed the black, heavy slick now extends one-and-a-half kilometres long. And an additional kilometre of oil has been pushed towards the Squamish, B.C., coastline, affecting the
According to the Bermuda daily, Royal Gazette, excess capacity in the global fleet of liquefied natural gas carriers will be at its highest this decade in 2008, due to a growing, worldwide fleet causing lower utilisation rates and it is predicted by analysts that utilisation of the LNG fleet will fa
COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited announced Friday that its subsidiary COSCO Shipyard Group has gained the first batch of Floating Storage and Offloading Unit (FSO) new building and conversion contracts. According to a statement issued by the company, the contracts, involving an FSO new building
An oil spill fouled the waters of Howe Sound north of Vancouver on Friday, sending surfers scrambling out of the water. Dan Bate, a spokesman for the Coast Guard, said the cargo ship Westwood Anette hit a pier at a terminal and a fuel tank burst. “Coast guard emergency response is being dispatched,”
The world’s largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean International’s (RCL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) (RCL.OL: Quote, Profile, Research) Freedom of the Seas, is to get a twin, Liberty of the Seas, within the next year — but the sisters won’t hold the No. 1 slot for long. A spokeswoman for Royal Caribbe
Four of five crew members were rescued today from the fishing vessel Laurel, which began taking on water about 120 miles southwest of Oahu Friday night, the Coast Guard reported. The 110-foot vesel radioed for help about 6:30 p.m. Friday, according to a Coast Guard news release. A Coast Guard C-130
Confrontational anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd is preparing to bring a bigger, faster and more powerful boat to Australia next month ahead of the next Japanese whale hunting season in the Southern Ocean. The new ship is called Leviathan and is being refitted in the Caribbean. It will depart for Aus
Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. has agreed to increase traffic to the Haifa port despite ongoing missile strikes by the Hizbullah in the area. As activity at the Haifa port has been reopened, the Manufacturers’ Association of Israel has called upon Zim, which is controlled by the Israel Corpor
