The world’s biggest iceberg has hit the end of an Antarctic glacier, snapping off a block about 5 square kilometers (3 square miles), a New Zealand scientist said Wednesday. The giant iceberg, known as B15A, ran into the tip of the Drygalski Ice Tongue in “more of a nudge than a collision,” said Lou
For the last several years, freight deliveries by tanker have tripled on average. More than $5 billion were spent on shipping Russian oil by tanker in 2004. But Russian oil companies are still less than enthusiastic about entering the shipping business. A proposed law approved by the administration
The Federal Government is under pressure to spend an extra $100 million on securing Australia’s ports. A new report released today by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute also calls for a specialised police force to patrol ports and greater security checks on foreign crews. The study on the ter
The demand for barges is set to increase in the coming years when steel-hulled vessels will replace wooden dhows, said a leading exhibitor taking part in the Gulf Maritime 2005 exhibition at Expo Centre Sharjah.
The FFV has given K-Challenge the official label of French Team for the 32nd America
Two of the world’s fastest racing monohulls are set to go head-to-head during the upcoming 2005 Rolex Transatlantic Challenge. The race starts May 21st off New York and after passing through a gate off The Lizard, finishes at The Needles, on the Isle of Wight, UK. Robert Miller’s 140-foot (43m) Mari
Bay Shipbuilding Co. has four new-build contracts that continue to keep its shipyards busy with about 725 workers. The shipyard announced on Monday a contract previously kept secret
A change in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
A proposed dredging project at the Port of Pascagoula could be on hold or eventually scrapped due to concerns that it would affect the habitat of a fish considered a threatened species. The port has plans for three-phase dredging project that would create approximately 150 acres of tidal marsh on th
Navy Secretary Gordon England repeated his call Tuesday for a single shipyard to build destroyers, again raising concerns about the prospect of a reduced workload at Bath Iron Works. During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in Washington to consider his nomination to be deputy secretary of d
Palmer Johnson has now sold three of their highly acclaimed 120 ft. Sport Yachts and also signed a contract for a 150 ft. Super Sport Yacht which is scheduled to deliver in late 2006. Further, the company sold the first of their 123 ft. GRP Raised Pilot House series upon its debut at the 2005 [&hell
Plans to construct Belfast’s first Tall Ship could breathe new life into the local ship-building industry, an officially-commissioned report on the project has found. A business plan for the venture, which would take three years to complete and would cost around
Great Eastern Shipping Company Ltd has signed a contract to sell its Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) Vasant J Sheth. The vessel is to be delivered during the first quarter of this fiscal. The 1990 built, 261167 deadweighttonne (dwt) VLCC was acquired in November 2003, the company informed BSE on Tue
Stevedores at Finnish harbours have ended their impromptu strike action, and returned to work on Monday. Workers at a number of Finnish seaports walked off the job last week over allegations that non-union labour had been used to do extra work in face of a ban on overtime imposed by the Finnish Tran
