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Malta Shipyards Ltd yesterday announced it had secured a contract valued in excess of Lm5 million for the conversion of a second heavy lift barge for a repeat client, Fairmount Heavy Transport. This contract will include fitting of propulsion equipment and on-deck accommodation facilities. Also yest
Statoil (OSE: STL, NYSE: STO) announces that it has reached agreement on the terms of the sale of Statoil Ireland, its Irish downstream Retail and Commercial & Industrial business, to Topaz, a financial consortium lead by Ion Equity. The two businesses are complementary with a strong strategic fit w
Installation of the four MTU 8000 Series engines is now complete in the first of two, Austal Auto Express 107 metre vehicle-passenger ferries for Hawaii Superferry (HSF) currently under construction at Austal
ONLY the bow could be seen. That was all that was left of a mainland ferry which collided with a Hong Kong-Macau ferry yesterday. No one was injured in the accident, reported Hong Kong newspapers, but the 92 passengers on the China ferry were forced onto the bow as the boat began to sink. And [&hell
The US oil corp. ENSCO said Monday a jackup rig was damaged while preloading offshore Vietnam and may be out of service for 60 days. No employees were injured and there was no environmental damage, the company added. Preliminary inspection indicates relatively minor damage to the rig, which has been
Federal grants, including $2.4 million announced this week, will help pay for a new Ocracoke ferry and improvements to its Manns Harbor shipyard. The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Monday that it will help fund an enclosed paint building at the Manns Harbor Maintenance Facility , said J
General Dynamics NASSCO, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), today delivered the USNS Lewis and Clark (T-AKE 1) to the U.S. Navy. The ship is named after Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who led a legendary exploration of the American West from 1804 to 1806. USNS Le
The U.S. Navy is christening a ship named after American Indian guide Sakakawea, who joined famed explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in North Dakota and accompanied them to the Pacific Northwest. The ship, which will transfer cargo to other ships at sea, will be named the USNS Sacagawea, f
At least five persons were feared to have been killed on Tuesday as a vessel carrying petroleum product burst into flames at the Beachland Estate, Ibafon, Apapa, Lagos. The explosion, which occurred at the Obat Petroleum Depot, also left some others seriously injured. Two of them are said to be in c
It appears the B.C. government has a new ally in its effort to have the longstanding moratorium lifted on offshore offshore oil and gas exploration. The Nisga’a First Nation in northwestern B.C. has struck a deal with the province to obtain more information about offshore exploration. The president
Malta Maritime Authority (MMA) report excellent progress by Transas in the installation of the Malta VTMIS. On the 5th of June 2006, Transas Limited started physical installation work on the first radar site. Preparation, planning and project management tasks have been progressing as planned since t
For eight years it hasn’t existed – but yesterday Whangarei’s worst-kept secret was wheeled into the sun for the first time. With the radio mast and navigation equipment now fitted, the 65m superyacht built for reclusive multi-millionaire John Spencer is too big for the giant shed it was built in. T
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 said today that a new phase of cleanup at the upper river portion of the Sheboygan River and Harbor Superfund site begins this week. The project will continue under EPA supervision, in consultation with Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, through
