The maritime authorities in the northern Mozambican port of Nacala have seized the ship that transported 67 illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, reports Tuesday’s issue of the Maputo daily paper “Noticias”.
One of the best ways to win a war is to surround your enemy and attack from both sides. Given that premise, then the ABN AMRO team is fighting an exemplary campaign. They have surrounded the enemy
It might look like plain sailing as the Volvo Ocean Race fleet scorches through the Caribbean en route to Baltimore, but it
The annual dig began Monday and is scheduled to be completed in mid-May. The dredging operation has two benefits, according to harbor maintenance manager Fran Quan: it regulates the depth of the harbor as a way to protect boaters from dangerous surf
More than 100 people were injured when a hydrofoil hit an unidentified marine object–possibly a whale–off Cape Sata, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Sunday, a Japan Coast Guard spokesman said.
About 120 people were feared drowned after a boat packed with passengers and goods capsized on Ghana’s Lake Volta, one of the world’s largest reservoirs, police in the West African country said on Monday.
Military contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. said Monday it received a $5.2 million foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Navy to study how the soon-to-debut Littoral combat ship can be modified to meet the needs of the Israeli Navy.
They call ABN AMRO ONE the Volvo Open 80 now, a recognition of the fact that it would take a boat bigger, longer and more powerful than the other boats in the fleet to beat her. But would ten feet longer be enough?
The freighter Runner 4, which sank off the Estonian coast at the beginning of March, released more oil into the waters of the Gulf of Finland during the weekend. According to Finland’s Environmental Administration, the spill involved about five cubic metres of light fuel oil.
SEOUL (Yonhap) _ South Korea’s shipbuilders ranked No. 1 through No. 7 worldwide in terms of order backlogs for the first time ever as of the end of February, a London-based market researcher said Monday.
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A direct shipping route linking Greece with China was inaugurated Saturday in an agreement aimed at boosting commercial ties between the two nations.
More than 80 people have been injured in a collision between a high-speed ferry and a whale in Japan. It is the most serious of a spate of collisions between ships and the marine mammals.
The death toll from last week
