With two days left to prepare for one on the most gruelling legs of the Volvo Ocean Race 2005-06, the Southern Ocean stretch from Cape Town to Melbourne, the talk of the town, or dockside, is of extreme cold, icebergs and whales.
Nakheel, a leading property developer in Dubai, has denied that it was calling off the Palm Deira project, a report said.
The Ericsson Racing Team has officially retired from Leg Two of the Volvo Ocean Race after experiencing failure to her hydraulic keel movement system in the early hours of 4 January. She arrived into Port Elizabeth (RSA) at 0900 GMT on Friday evening
Tourism director Peter Murphy first approached the Quebec-based Transbor
The state Ports Authority is moving toward building an international port in Southport that the authority said would attract larger ships than the state’s two other ports.
HONG KONG (AP) – Ports investor COSCO Pacific Ltd. said it has signed an agreement to buy a 20 percent stake in the Suez Canal Container Terminal in Egypt — its first port investment in the Middle East.
It is expected that the goods throughput of Shanghai port in 2005 will rank the world’s top for the first time, as learned from the Shanghai Municipal Port Administration Bureau.
Panaji: The Indian Coast Guard will acquire three state-of-the-art pollution control vessels in the next two years for an estimated cost of Rs 300 crore, according to Inspector General A Rajasekhar, Commander, Coast Guard, here today.
Shell Malaysia and PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd (PETRONAS Carigali) today announced the achievement of a major milestone with the delivery of first gas from their jointly operated new Shallow Clastics satellite field ahead of schedule.
SINGAPORE Neptune Orient Lines, Evergreen Marine and 10 other shipping lines plan to raise surcharges on land transportation of containers in the United States by as much as 41 percent because of higher fuel prices.
Since the end of the first leg, the teams have been working furiously on their sail development in a bid to match ABN AMRO, who by anyone
China’s shipbuilding tonnage is expected to reach a record high of more than 12.5 million this year, grabbing 17 per cent of the global shipbuilding market, up from 14.3 per cent in 2004.
According to the shore team Dee has now completed the re-wiring and re-calibration of both autopilots.
the Tianjin port in north China has posted 240 million thruput and 4.8 million TEU container thruput for year 2005. Its total thruput stands within the top ten of the world’s ports.
