The Marine Police will not approve the setting up of armed escort vessel services to protect merchant ships plying the Strait of Malacca. Its Commander SAC II Jalaludin Abdul Rahman said the armed escort vessel issue had been discussed in detail by the marine police and the shipping associations. “W
Short Sea Shipping involves the maritime transport of freight, within Europe and with Europe
Statoil has awarded two integrated drilling service contracts to Schlumberger Norge and Baker Hughes Norge AS. With the options included, the contracts will have a total value of NOK 1.8 billion The contracts’ duration is two years with extension options of two times two years, commencing 1 Septembe
Transpetro, the transport arm of Brazil’s federal energy company Petrobras (NYSE: PBR), has awarded the Atl
At least five people died when a Russian cargo ship sank off the Kamchatka Peninsula in the country’s Far East last night, the Emergencies Ministry said Friday. The ministry’s Far East department said there are believed to have been five crew members and 12 passengers on board the RUM-4006. Rescuers
SALVORS working to free the stricken 17000-ton Safmarine Agulhas from her precarious perch on the East London harbour sea wall, favour using the same strategy the company employed when it successfully refloated the 133-metre-long container ship Umfolozi in the Walvis Bay harbour last year. Smit Salv
Imtech (technical services provider in Europe ) announces that ship owner Allseas recently has awarded Imtech
THE WA Government has gone into battle with the Commonwealth for a share of its $2 billion naval shipbuilding contract. The State Government has stepped-up its campaign to convince the Commonwealth that WA should play a major role in a $2 billion Australian Navy vessel contract. Science and Innovati
Govan shipyard in Glasgow is to take over the contract to build a ship from a rival in England after the work went over budget. The 16,000-ton fleet auxiliary ship Lyme Bay will be towed from Tyneside to the Clyde after procurement officials at the Ministry of Defence decided to withdraw the work fr
SWAN Hunter’s last remaining shipyard will be mothballed with the loss of more than 300 jobs, all but marking the end of naval shipbuilding in the North-East, it emerged last night. Swans has been given no alternative but to close its yard in Wallsend, North Tyneside, after the Ministry of Defence (
Lockport La…, Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. announces the appointment of Mike Toups as General Manager of Bollinger Amelia Repair, L.L.C., Amelia, La. “We are excited about Mike
The vote to encourage offshore drilling for oil along all of America
A ship at the centre of a week-long industrial dispute in Australia has set sail, with unions claiming a victory. The MT Stolt, the country’s last flagged chemical tanker, had been docked in the southern city of Hobart since Sunday, when the crew stopped work in protest against plans to replace them
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