Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Company said it had won an order to build two chemical plants for around 100 billion yen ($856 million) for a large petrochemical project in Saudi Arabia.
A lack of space in cargo planes leaving Sri Lanka has led to a drop in international fish exports and has brought the fish export industry to a standstill.
A 67-year-old man has died after falling off a cruiser into a river on the Broads in Norfolk. The man fell into the water near the Berney Arms pub on Monday morning and was rescued by a member of his family, but soon afterwards had a heart attack.
The oldest electric-powered river boat in the UK could be restored to its former glory after being awarded
A WWII minesweeper and a torpedo boat are among 10 sunken vessels being raised from the entrance to the Forth and Clyde Canal.
HOUSTON, TX, United States (UPI) — Woodside Natural Gas Inc. plans to deliver liquid natural gas from Australia to California with an offshore terminal.
A last moment amendment to technical specification for a Tk 125 crore dredging project for the Karnaphuli river under the shipping ministry drove away four of the six selected bidders, conveniently leaving the scheme to two of them.
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somali militiamen who skirmished with U.S. Navy vessels claimed Sunday they did not fire the first shot and that they had been patrolling Somali waters to stop illegal fishing vessels.
Thirteen suspected pirates involved in clashes with the US Navy off the Somali coast on Saturday have been captured, a spokesman for the men says.
Shipping companies that transport iron ore, coal and other materials across the Great Lakes are using the lakes as a dumping ground for leftover cargo, despite federal laws and an international treaty that prohibit the practice.
THE Woodside-led joint venture operating in Mauritania’s offshore waters is within a week or so of shipping the first cargo of oil from the Chinguetti project.
The United States Navy reports that two of its warships encountered a group of suspected pirates off the Somali coast and the pirates’ ship opened fire on them. The naval warships returned fire killing one Somali and wounding five.
The Colombian authorities have seized a shipment of cocaine with a street value of $540m (
WASHINGTON — As far away from Electric Boat in Groton as Sunnyvale, Calif., the decline in defense spending for nuclear warships is taking a toll.
