ABN AMRO TWO navigator Simon Fisher explained the incident,
A 623-foot cargo ship that ran aground yesterday cleared the reef after high tide swept in early this morning. The ship is now docked at an anchorage area off of Fort Lauderdale beach. ”It was at high tide and under the ship’s own power [that] they were able to free themselves,” said U.S. Coast Guar
Keppel FELS Ltd (Keppel FELS) has secured a contract to build a repeat ultra deepwater semisubmersible drilling platform (semi) for A.P. M
Aker Kvaerner has signed an agreement to deliver a deepwater subsea production system offshore West Africa. The value of the extension is approximately USD 90 million. The subsea trees will be manufactured and assembled at Aker Kvaerner’s world class Tranby facility in Norway and assembly of the con
Evergreen Marine Corp has been awarded Best Shipping Line- Intra Asia for the second consecutive year at the Asian Freight and Supply Chain Awards (AFSCA) 2006. Lee Hock-Saing, Executive Vice President of Evergreen Marine Corp (Malaysia), was presented with the award by Stephen White, Director, Mari
The Water Technologies division of Siemens’s Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S) Group was selected by Petrobras to provide a produced water treatment system to its P-53 Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) unit, located off the coast of Brazil. The produced water treatment system w
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has made a foray into the dredging business by acquiring a majority stake in International Seaport Dredging, which is Belgian Dredging International NV’s Indian arm. According to an official release issued by L&T to the BSE today, the company has infused equity to acquire a 61%
Federal officials asked a judge Tuesday to sign off on their agreement with General Electric Co. to dredge PCBs from the Hudson River, and rejected criticism that the deal could allow the company to avoid doing most of the cleanup. In the accord, first announced in October, GE pledged to perform the
The Coast Guard began searching Tuesday for a 21-year-old man reported missing from a cruise ship that had left Florida for the Bahamas. The man was reported missing about 11 a.m. Monday when his friends realized he had not slept in the cabin they shared, Royal Caribbean International spokesman Mich
Workers successfully moored the decommissioned aircraft carrier Oriskany on Tuesday about 24 miles south of Pensacola in preparation for the ship’s long-awaited scuttling today, a Navy spokeswoman said. Crews working for contractor Resolve Marine Group spent most of the day dropping four immense moo
The French warship Clemenceau, once the pride of France’s navy, is back in its home port of Brest, five months after heading to India to be scrapped. The French government was forced to recall the aircraft carrier because Indian workers refused to deal with the hazardous asbestos in its hulk. The is
A KEY player in a failed attempt to reshape the UK’s naval shipyards yesterday said it still harboured hopes of leading a restructuring of the industry. VT Group, the owner of the Portsmouth dockyard, lined up alongside BAE Systems on a
Overnight ABN AMRO ONE inched away from everyone except the Pirates of the Caribbean who, by the 0400GMT managed to take 16 miles off the leader. But that all stopped by the 1000GMT poll and in fact they went backwards, losing 27 miles in the last six hours. At the back of the fleet things […
VT Group is pressing ahead with plans to merge its warship building activities with those of BAE Systems after the failure of the two companies to pull off a takeover of the rival naval business Babcock. Paul Lester, VT’s chief executive, denied the collapse of the Babcock bid had put the company on
