For more than 15 years, New Jersey and Pennsylvania officials have quarreled quietly over whether to make a 103-mile stretch of the Delaware River 5 feet deeper so larger ships can sail into the port of Philadelphia.
A 32-year-old man is missing in the Irish Sea after he went overboard from the Belfast to Liverpool ferry. The alarm was raised at 0200 GMT after he went into the water, a few miles from the Isle of Man, off the side of the Lagan Viking ship.
The warship HMS Cornwall has been rededicated in the county on Saturday after a comprehensive refit. The ceremony took place at County Wharf in Falmouth, the same place she was commissioned in 1988 by the ship’s sponsor, Diana Princess of Wales.
Seatec 2006, the international exhibition of shipbuilding and yacht technology, due to take place in Marina di Carrara from February 2nd to 4th, will host a meeting on Yacht Building Technology.
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A PANAMANIAN container ship split in half after it collided in heavy fog with a cargo vessel from Cyprus near the Peruvian port of Callao.
Six Algerian stowaways were yesterday apprehended by Malta Freeport security personnel while carrying out patrols at the terminal at about 5 a.m. The stowaways were noticed coming out of a container that had just been unloaded off the mv Nicola.
Angry passengers on board the troubled cruise liner Queen Mary 2 were due to meet the boss of operator Cunard after the company offered to pay a full refund.
The Bombay High Court on Friday approved demerger of offshore business of Great Eastern Shipping Company Ltd, comprising drilling services and marine logistics into a separate new company.
It was an early start for the Ericsson boys this morning with the arrival of their yacht by cargo ship. Ericsson was offloaded from the towering Wallenius Wilhelmsen ship ‘Tagus’ and arrived into the Volvo Ocean Race village at Melbourne Docklands early this afternoon.
The Indonesian Navy said Friday it has deployed two warships to the maritime border with Australia in a bid to prevent Indonesian fishermen from illegal border-crossing.
A Vietnamese state-run giant shipbuilder has targeted US$1 billion in production value this year and aims to double it by 2010 through expansion, a top corporate official said.
Alaska’s lone congressman and its senior senator have been quietly pushing to move the Coast Guard cutter Healy (the nation’s newest and most-advanced icebreaker) from the Port of Seattle, where it has been based since its launch in 2000, to Anchorage.
Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited at Kolkata handed over the first of the new series of fast attack crafts (Yard 2051) to Indian Navy recently.
