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A group of alleged Somali pirates captured by the US Navy in March have been freed and returned home to Somalia after the United States declined to prosecute them, a US official said on Tuesday. Ten of 12 suspected pirates detained on March 18 after firing on US warships in the Indian Ocean off the
On Friday 28 April 2006, the launching of the 5,600m
Felixstowe and Harwich are at the centre of a boom in shipping volumes fuelled by Chinese exports. By Dominic O
Babcock International, owner of Rosyth shipyard and Glasgow
Bouwe Bekking’s movistar conclusively confirmed that they are the force to be reckoned with in the lighter winds of the Chesapeake Bay today when they earned their first In Port Race victory to partner that offshore Leg 3 win into Wellington. Having now only once finished off the In Port podiums, wh
It cost 25,000 lives to build and revolutionized shipping, but now Panama’s marvel of engineering is too small for a new generation of mighty ships and tankers. Six years after gaining sole control from the United States of the man-made marvel the world once dubbed the “path between the seas,” the g
The U.S. cargo ship MV Cape Decision, belonging to the U.S. Military Sealift Command, last week stopped in Poland to deliver combat equipment used by the Polish military in Iraq, according to a press release. The Cape Decision, a 681-foot roll-on/roll-off ship, delivered more than 49,000 square feet
Somali pirates have hijacked a ship in southern Somalia in the latest attack off the country’s lawless coast, a maritime official said. The Kismayu-bound ship was hijacked by Somali gunmen on Thursday and commandeered to a coastal town near Harardheere where two other vessels are still being held by
A ship carrying a tall crane has made it under the Lewis and Clark bridge on the Columbia River at Longview. Authorities were worried it would be a tight fit. The ship is taking the crane to the Port of Portland.Port spokesman Erik Hedaa (hed-uh) who watched the passage about one o’clock this aftern
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Canada’s troubled submarine fleet has suffered another setback with the announcement that Ottawa won’t repair fire-ravaged HMCS Chicoutimi until 2010, leaving the navy short one boat and raising concerns it may never see active service. The department said putting off the extensive repairs to Chicou
France’s state shipbuilder DCN began yesterday manufacturing parts for the first of six Scorpene submarines ordered by India. New Delhi agreed in October 2005 to buy six of the Franco-Spanish submarines for 2.4bn euros. The deal is a technology transfer agreement: the Scorpenes will be assembled in
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