A contract to build the world’s first floating nuclear power plant was signed here on Wednesday. The customer is the Rosenergoatom concern. The facility will be build by the Sevmash shipyard, a defense sector enterprise. According to Rosenergoatom director Sergei Obozov, the construction will begin
Soaring oil prices have cost UK businesses
Shanghai. June 14. INTERFAX-CHINA-China’s second domestically-constructed LNG tanker left dry dock on Monday, according to the builder, the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group. The 147,210 cu m tanker that has total LNG storage capacity of 65,000 tons, cost as much as USD 160 mln to build. It is expe
ST-LOUIS-DE-GONZAGUE, Que. (CP) – A bridge southwest of Montreal has been forced to close for an undetermined period after being rammed by a cargo ship Tuesday. The accident also closed the St. Lawrence Seaway for about an hour. Two holes were punched into the bow of the Voyageur Independent during
The Greek company said Tuesday it would take delivery of the ship next month. Upon delivery the vessel will be chartered to Bocimar Belgium NV of Antwerp, Belgium, for 11 to 13 months at $21,000 per day net.
The Nam Trieu Shipbuilding Industry Company on June 13 successfully launched a 53,000 tonne ship in the northern port city of Haiphong. The ship, named Graiglas, is designed for transporting dry cargo. It is one of the two biggest made-in-Vietnam ships built so far by Vietnamese workers. The other s
Vetco Aibel has been awarded a contract worth around NOK 700 million by Statoil for installation of a compressor module on the Sleipner B platform in the North Sea. The module will increase production of gas and condensate on the Sleipner West field. Without pressure support production from this fie
Gov. Linda Lingle and U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye will attend a blessing this weekend at a Connecticut shipyard for the USS Hawaii, the Navy’s newest and most advanced submarine. The Navy hasn’t picked a home port for the ship, but Lingle and Rear Adm. John Donnelly, deputy commander of the Pacific F
Johor stopped supplying sand to Singapore in 2000, and has since monitored sand-dredging activities in areas where permits have been issued. Menteri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman told Ayub Jamil (BN-Rengit) in the state assembly yesterday that 97 such permits had been issued to date. In a reply rea
One fisherman was missing and three others were rescued yesterday afternoon after their boat hit a patch of choppy water and capsized off the coast of southern Queens, the authorities said. The fishermen
The Greenpeace boat the Arctic Sunrise has been banned from entering St Kitts in the West Indies ahead of Friday’s International Whaling Commission meeting. The boat was one of two vessels which confronted the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean earlier this year.
Russia has long used nuclear technology to power submarines. Russia is to build the world’s first floating nuclear plant, designed to provide power for remote areas. Under a contract signed on Wednesday, the plant will be built at an Arctic site where atomic submarines are made. Work is expected to
General Dynamics Electric Boat will christen Hawaii (SSN-776), the U.S. Navy
The ten Clipper 68s are busy preparing for the start of Race 9 in Shelter Bay on Wednesday after all successfully transiting the Panama Canal over the past two days. It is hoped that the fleet will be able to slip at 1500 local time, and form up for a Le Mans start later this […]
