Another asbestos-lined vessel is heading for the western Indian ship-breaking yard in Alang, the environmental group Greenpeace says. The Blue Lady was originally named the SS France, and later the SS Norway. It has more than 900 tonnes of toxic waste, Greenpeace says. The ship was banned from Bangl
With luck, $800,000 or so will be left over from some of the mega-dredging jobs the Army Corps of Engineers is undertaking this summer in storm ravaged areas like New Orleans allowing the Westport River to get scooped out this fall for the first time in 50 years. That’s the price for the relatively
The owners / master of a Dutch fishing vessel were fined a total of
Shetland Islands Council is looking into spending more than
The 120 metre superyacht Galeb, which was used by President Tito, is to be sold at auction, by order of a Croatian court. The Galeb (Seagull) had been a World War II mine layer and, before that, a cargo vessel. After being sunk by the British, towards the end of the war, it was raised […]
Aker Kvaerner has signed a contract with Statoil for design and delivery of the world’s largest system for capturing and recovering crude oil vapours. The new system will treat all vapours emitted from ship loading of crude oil at the oil company’s Mongstad terminal at the Norwegian West coast. The
The Naming Ceremony for the sixth and seventh Armidale Class Patrol Boats to be launched was held today at the Austal shipyard in Henderson, Western Australia. Fourteen patrol boats in total are to be delivered to the Royal Australian Navy. The 56 metre, all-aluminium monohull vessels were named
IMPSA (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd has rolled out world’s largest quay crane, incorporating the latest ship-to-shore (STS) technology. The roll-out is timely to enable ports to cope with the emergence of mega-sized carriers, especially in the long-haul trades. Pelabuhan Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) in Johor, a major
The city is seeking another ship-repair company to lease Metro Machine Corp.’s dry docks at the old Navy Yard. Metro Machine Corp., a Norfolk, Va., company that came here a dozen years ago with dreams of building a radically new type of tanker ship, is shutting down its Philadelphia operations. The
With hope of finding the 26 missing crew of the ill-fated Greek bulk carrier the Alexandros T all but abandoned at the weekend, it has emerged that the ship failed a 2003 safety inspection. The inspection by the US Coast Guard found a number of glaring structural and mechanical faults in the 17-year
Somali pirates have released a cargo vessel they seized off the coast of the Horn of Africa country after a businessman paid a $25,000 ransom, a maritime official said yesterday. The United Arab Emirates-flagged ship, which was heading to the port city of Kismayu carrying goods for businessmen there
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BRITAIN’S three big shipbuilding and defence groups have held exploratory talks about creating a new company or alliance in a move that would put thousands of Scottish shipbuilding jobs under threat. BAE Systems and VT Group have tabled various alternatives for Britain’s naval shipbuilding industry
The fleet has been blessed by The Reverend Mamie Alethia Williams and all seven have left the beautiful surroundings of Annapolis for the start line. On the way, Pirates stuck hard aground for a while as their deep draught and the shallow parts of Chesapeake Bay coincided at just the wrong time. The
