Organisers of a protest against a proposed cruise ship terminal on the Gold Coast say the State Government has misled and betrayed local residents. More than 3,000 people attended a protest at the Southport Spit yesterday.
Since the late 1880s, the behemoth ships carrying the world’s cargo from port to port also have toted a load that is unseen – giant, boat-steadying tanks of ballast water. The seawater is sucked in at one port, carried to another and pumped out when it’s no longer needed.
Spanish police have broken up a ring of undersea looters who have spent the last two years allegedly plundering the archaeological treasures of Spanish galleons and other historic ships that sank off the coast of southern Spain.
The Russian icebreaker Krasin of the Far East sea shipping company has escorted the tanker Lawrence H. GIANELLA to McMurdo station of the United States’ National Science Foundation in the Antarctic.
ABG Shipyard Ltd. said on Monday that it has got 21.20 hectares and 15.59 hectares of land in Surat from the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) and the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC), respectively.
In a deal trumpeted by the shipyard as the most expensive commercial ship ever to be built, Norway’s Aker Yards said in a statement Monday that Miami-headquartered Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines had placed an order for a 360-metre cruise ship worth about 900 million euros.
Transocean Inc. (NYSE:RIG) today announced that Devon Energy Corporation (NYSE:DVN) has awarded the company’s Fifth-Generation, ultra-deepwater drillship Deepwater Discovery a minimum three-year contract for drilling operations offshore Brazil.
Shipbuilder Muhibbah Marine Engineering Sdn Bhd expects its operating profit to rise 10 per cent and revenue to rise 64 per cent in 2006, driven by strong demand from the offshore oil and gas sector.
On Saturday 4 February 2006 Odense Steel Shipyard presented its latest newbuilding for the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group.
In recent years the country
The wooden vessel may have succumbed to storm, fire or rough weather, ruining the cargo of 400 ceramic jars of wine and olive oil. The ship went down in 60 metres of water where it remained unnoticed for centuries.
According to the Coast Guard analysis, Anchorage’s port would need dredging to handle the big ship. The report also said Todd is one of only two commercial shipyards — the other is in San Diego — that could handle the vessel.
All 10 yachts in the Clipper 05-06 Round the World Yacht Race have been diverted to Subic Bay in the Philippines for keel inspection following discovery of loose keel bolts on seven of the 10 Clipper 68 yachts.
Ericsson, fourth placed in Saturday
