Hanjin Shipping will start a new direct service between North China and the US West Coast called CEN (China Northeast Service) starting April 1.
Keppel FELS Ltd (Keppel FELS) has secured a US$132 million contract from a wholly-owned special purpose company of SeaDrill Limited (SeaDrill) for a KFELS B class jackup rig.
Employees working in the Scotstoun and Govan yards have given up the age-old tradition of the mid-morning tea break in return for
On wednesday March 22th, 2006 the Damen Double HOT was launched. The christening of the ship was done by Mrs. Jane Serjent, wife of Mr. Ian M. Serjent, Executive Director, Marine and Technical Services of the principal James Fisher Shipping Ltd. from U.K.
India’s Chambal Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd. has signed a shipbuilding pact with South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd.
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for work to support the Los Angeles, Ohio, Seawolf, and Virginia-class submarines. The total estimated value of the contract is approximately $248 million for work performed through 2008.
A ferry carrying about 100 people sank after it strayed off course in the early morning darkness on Canada’s rugged Pacific Coast on Wednesday, but officials believe everyone was rescued safely.
Exploration drilling on Statoil’s Uranus prospect in the Barents Sea has been completed without proving any hydrocarbons which are possible to produce.
Clean-up ships swarmed the Bay of Tallinn on March 17 after the Estonian Border Guard detected large amounts of shore-bound oil floating in from the Gulf of Finland. Finnish vessels gathered about two tons of spilled oil
British Columbia ferries are the lifeblood of its rugged coast, serving tiny islands and big cities. When one of them has an accident or mechanical failure, it can disrupt thousands of travelers and sends ripples of concern through the province.
De Zeven Provincien, a destroyer from the Netherlands and the command ship of Combined Task Force 150, came to the aid of a distressed vessel and rescued 27 people off the coast of Yemen earlier this week
Two new container shipping companies will begin service at the Port of Baltimore on April 1, officials said Wednesday. CMA-CGM and China Shipping are expected to bring 30,000 containers annually to the port.
it will not only moor at the birthplace of South Carolina, but will periodically ply the waters along the coast. The two-masted sailing vessel is taking shape at Charles Towne Landing State Park, replacing a similar vessel built 36 years ago but which sank June 2004.
General Electric Co. said Wednesday it plans to delay by a year dredging work on the Hudson River, a move that’s sharply at odds with an Environmental Protection Agency’s goal to start scouring the river bottom in 2007.
