A federal spending bill includes $11 million for dredging and maintenance of Charleston channels that serve port facilities. Port users say the money will keep the ports open for bigger business at a time when money for those projects is hard to come by.
Kjell Inge Rokke, the majority owner of the Kvaerner Philadelphia Shipyard, faces 30 days in prison after his conviction Friday on charges that he bribed a maritime official to obtain a yacht operator’s license. He was convicted in a district court in Oslo, Norway, home of his business empire, which
About a dozen fishing boats surrounded the cruise ship Maasdam as it prepared to leave port yesterday in a protest of cuts to their snow crab quota. The fishermen, from the Louisbourg, N.S., area, are trying to pressure federal Fisheries Minister Geoff Regan to meet with them to discuss the cuts. Re
Murphy Sabah Oil Co. Ltd. has awarded Technip a contract for the engineering, design, supply, and installation of the Kikeh area development subsea pipeline and riser system. Kikeh, in 1,330m water depth offshore Sabah, will be the first deepwater development in Malaysia and will include the deepest
A two-year, taxpayer-funded $7.2 million project to clear out dozens of private canals surrounding Lake Griffin is ready to begin. Crews have worked for months to prepare miles of plastic pipeline and barges needed to pull off the largest effort ever handled by the Lake County Water Authority. The a
Durrat Al Bahrain has signed a $150m agreement with Durrat Al Bahrain and Great Lakes-Nass for reclamation, dredging and shore protection for the second and final phase of the project, reported Gulf Daily News. The work is expected to be finished within two years. Durrat Al Bahrain is co-owned by Ku
After 12 years of effort, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources expects to begin work on dredging Crystal Lake in the fall of this year. The estimated cost of the project is $3 million. “It’s been a long time coming but it’s going to be worth it,” said community organizer Bruce Kluver of Crystal
You may remember that the departure of the fleet from Boston was marked by very light winds. Things have been very different since then. Leg six of the Global Challenge yacht race looked very straightforward at first sight: Boston to La Rochelle with just one waypoint to the southeast of Newfoundlan
Maritime Officers of the Ministry of Works and Transport are expected to meet with senior officials of Inter Isle Construction and Fabrication Company Limited, at the company’s headquarters in Chaguaramas today. One of the officers handling the investigation into the explosion which occurred aboard
Increased shipping, spurred by the country’s expanding economy, is creating unprecedented levels of pollution, a situation China’s Maritime Safety Administration (MSA) is working to remedy. Speaking yesterday, Liu Gongchen, deputy director-general of MSA, said his administration is working to establ
For the last two years, Premier Challenge team members have been quietly burning the midnight oil, designing and building their Volvo 70 racer, destined to become Australia
Hawaii officials have begun speaking out following news the chairman of President Bush’s Base Realignment and Closure Commission had questioned why the Defense Department recommended closing the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard rather than a similar facility in Pearl Harbor.
Dubai Ports Authority (DPA) has achieved a remarkable accomplishment in handling large container vessels, which have capacities between 4,000-8,000 twenty foot equivalent units (TEUs), in a record time.
The fate of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard could be decided tomorrow, when four members of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission hold a hearing in Boston to decide whether to accept the Pentagon’s recommendation that the shipyard be closed.
