The 58 meter (190-feet) 2,500 tonne Anchor Handling Tug / Supply Vessel “Hadi 21” was launched from Cheoy Lee’s Doumen facility. Still with 10 weeks of construction works remaining, the vessel is on target to meet her contract delivery date of September 2006. A sister ship for the same owner, is due
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The cruise ship that tilted suddenly at sea this week, injuring hundreds on board, is now on its way to New York. The Crown Princess left Port Canaveral on Thursday. On board are the ship
CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Co Ltd, China’s biggest Sino-foreign partnership deal, plans to expand its current capacity by 10 to 20 per cent within the next four years, to meet surging domestic demand. The US$4.3 billion joint project, launched in March between Royal Dutch Shell and China’s bigge
Viet Y Steel Joint-stock Co. yesterday signed a deal with local lenders to take out loans totaling VND264 billion, or more than US$16 million, to build a high-quality steel billet factory in the northern city of Haiphong. Five banks joined forces to provide the syndicated loans to the company at a s
General Dynamics NASSCO, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) , today announced the start of construction on the fifth dry cargo-ammunition ship in the U.S. Navy’s T-AKE program. The ship will be named later and is scheduled to be delivered to the Navy in the first quarter of 200
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has permitted the transport ministry to proceed with a project to develop a general port along the Thi Vai River in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau. In a decision signed on Monday, a HCMC-based company will build the Phu My General Port inside Phu My I Industr
The National Transmission Corporation (TransCo) signed a memorandum of Understanding last Monday, July 17 with Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction (HHIC-Phil., Inc.) for the direct power connection of Hanjin’s shipbuilding facility to be built inside the Special Economic Zone in Castillejos, Zamb
Practice in emergency drills saved a Danish ship and its crew from a massive fire that engulfed the Port of Providence dock where the ship was unloading gasoline, the ship’s captain said Thursday. In his first public statement since the fire, Leif Nielsen, captain of the 600-foot tanker Nordeuropa,
A South African container ship, the MV Umfolozi, has been stolen from Walvis Bay, where it has been docked since colliding with a South African-registered dredger, the MV Ingwenya, in September. The Namibian Ports Authority confirmed it had disappeared on Wednesday and said the port captain, Vladimi
An Ontario surgeon was pitched into action after the luxury cruise liner Crown Princess suddenly listed to starboard off the Florida coast, throwing scores of passengers into furniture and fixtures, and leaving many with broken bones, dislocated joints and head injuries. Dr. Gerald Brock of London,
East London – Only 150 containers remained on board the stranded Safmarine Agulhas in East London, said the national ports authority (NPA) on Thursday. The vessel was carrying 469 loaded containers when it ran aground after its engines failed shortly after it left East London Harbour last month. The
MORRO BAY, Calif. – A fishing boat on Thursday spewed hundreds of gallons of diesel fuel into the ocean after it took on water and sank, authorities said. Authorities responded shortly before 6 a.m. to the boat, which had been moored to a pier, said Coast Guard Chief Kirk McKay. The 50-foot vessel w
BP today announced that it has been awarded three offshore blocks in Pakistan
