As Congress moves toward opening protected Alaskan wilderness to petroleum drilling, energy company activity is picking up in California’s coastal waters, where new exploration has been blocked for more than two decades. Drillers are reworking wells and considering reviving old platforms in places w
A new oil and gas reserve has been found in the Nam Con Son basin offshore of the southern Ba Ria
Kuwait’s foreign minister said Sunday that Iranian President Mohammad Khatami will likely visit the emirate soon for talks on disputed maritime borders with huge natural gas reserves. Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah told the state-run KUNA news agency that during his visit to Tehran on Wednesday the two si
Princess Cruise Line this weekend will dry-dock two of its foreign-flagged ships at Pearl Harbor for the first time. Hawaii Shipyards Inc., a local ship-repair company, will clean, paint and overhaul the two cruise ships — Tahitian Princess and Pacific Princess. The multimillion-dollar contract is e
Six months ago, Carnival Cruise Lines’ 46,000-ton Holiday sailed out of its Mobile home port for the first time – sparking hopes of increased tourism and a shot in the arm for downtown. While the city is still a rookie in the cruise business, local officials say they believe the ship has been succes
By August, fishing and tour boats will have a safe passage along Sungai Kuala Besut when a dredging project to deepen the river is completed. Some 5,000 fishermen and 200 tour boat operators plying from the river jetty to Pulau Perhentian will benefit from the RM6 million project to be carried out o
The contractor for the Hudson Channel dredging project is asking for a six-month extension and a pay increase to finish work on the 2.1-mile maritime pass. Subaqueous Services Inc. has told county leaders it needs additional time to remove rocks and sand from a 40-foot area that is being widened to
Sailing from Newport to New York. Well, it was time to get the boat down to New York. We have got a busy schedule booked in for Friday and Saturday, and we wanted to start our trip back across the Atlantic from where we will be starting the leg of the race next year.
With more cruise lines pushing to base ships at ports outside of Florida, an increasing number of passengers are starting their voyages out of the former Navy yard in South Philadelphia. More than 92,000 travelers – a 50-percent increase over last year – are expected to board ships at the Cruise Ter
Solutions to the logistics challenges arising from the boom in Arabian Gulf petrochemical production will create spin-offs for other industrial sectors involved in international trade. The region is set to become the world’s biggest user of sea transport, logistics services, and cargo-handling facil
China will spend 10 billion yuan (US$1.2 billion) in improving the navigable capacity on the Yangtze River, the country’s longest, in 17 years, an official said yesterday. The money will be spent in dredging of the river’s lower reaches, expanding the middle reaches, and extending the navigable cour
Trends continue to sweep the international shipping freight market, especially in the tanker segment. And with the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) making a downward revision in demand forecast for the first time in many months, the shipping industry does not anticipate the freight mark
The hole left when a 154-foot boat sails out of a shipyard is more than just the space it once occupied, as Hodgdon Yachts learned when the ketch Scheherazade floated away in 2003. The super yacht was, at the time, the largest of its kind under construction in the Western Hemisphere. It took four ye
The Piracy Centre of the London- based International Chamber of Commerce has been churning out reports of sea robberies in the Straits of Malacca and classifying them as piracy. The classification is contrary to international law. The Piracy Centre labels an incident against a ship or crew within na
