Scientists from the University of Liverpool have begun a six-week cruise to help them understand major changes in temperature in the Atlantic. Researchers will examine the disparity between the ocean’s temperatures at different locations and depths. The cruise departed from Bermuda, the university s
In the second fishing tragedy in as many days, a Mossel Bay fisherman fell overboard seven nautical miles off Tsitsikamma Point early on Monday and is presumed drowned. In an earlier tragedy on Sunday, four Cape Town residents were among the 14 victims of the trawler accident off the coast of Port E
A six-month experiment with a 10-hour, four-day work week at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems is drawing to a close. If union members decide before May 29 that they no longer want to continue the new shift, it will go away and workers will return to the five-day week.
Across Maine and New Hampshire, Tuesday marked a period of calm before a potential storm for thousands of civilian workers along with sailors and their families awaiting word on whether the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and the Brunswick Naval Air Station will be targeted for closure. Defense Secretary
Ha Long shipyard, a subsidiary of the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin), has launched Tay Son 3, a cargo ship with a capacity of 12,500 tonnes. This is the third of eight ships of the same kind the shipyard is building for the Viet Nam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines). Vinashin
Port Elizabeth – The owners of the trawler that sank near Port Elizabeth on Sunday after colliding with a container vessel, are still investigating ways to recover bodies that might be trapped in the wreck. That’s according to the Mossel Bay municipality.
Keppel Corp said its unit Keppel Fels is in talks with Denmark’s AP Moeller-Maersk for the the possibility of supplying Maersk with a semi-submersible drilling rig. ‘We are currently in talks with them (Maersk) for the (potential) design and construction of semi-submersible drilling rig,’ a Keppel C
In a desperate bid to achieve at least four million barrels daily production capacity by year 2006, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has given nod to Total’s request to begin developing the 225,000 barrels per day Akpo field. Located on the Oil Mining Licence (OML) 130, also in the
Malaysia International Shipping Corp Bhd (MISC) has signed preliminary agreements with two European groups to enable it to move into the global oil and gas market. The shipping company said it has signed an initial accord with Norway’s Bergesen Worldwide Ltd, a leading provider of floating productio
Total Upstream Nigeria Ltd. has awarded a $1.08-billion lump sum turnkey contract to Technip as leader in consortium with Hyundai Heavy Industries for the engineering, procurement, supply, construction, and offshore commissioning of an FPSO for the Akpo field development offshore Nigeria. The Akpo f
Maritime safety authorities have launched an investigation into the deaths at sea of 14 South African chokka fishermen after a tanker collided with their trawler off Port Elizabeth. The 14 men are believed to have drowned when their 30-metre steel fishing vessel, the Lindsay, was hit by the 20 000-t
Dubai, which is the regional leader in waterfront development, will see more coastal development projects in the future, according to Khalid Bin Sulayem, Director General, Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing, Government of Dubai. Opening the Waterfront 2005 Dubai exhibition and conference a
New bids for the first phase of deepening the Columbia River channel are closer to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates, putting the project on track for a timely start-up, corps officials said. Three companies presented their cost estimates to get the project under way as early as this month. The
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, the world’s largest shipbuilders, won Iranian contracts worth almost $1 billion to build 10 oil tankers, an Iranian official said. National Iranian Oil Tanker Co. will award the contracts to South Korea-based shipbuilders Dae
