The Dubai firm that won Bush administration backing to run six U.S. ports has at least two ties to the White House.
Oil prices rose by more than $1 in London on Monday following sabotage attacks on oil production and distribution facilities in Nigeria.
Militants holding nine foreign hostages in southern Nigeria said they attacked another oil facility Monday and blew up a military vessel in violence that has cut about 20 percent of crude production in Africa’s oil giant.
The Bush administration gave control of six crucial ports to a Sept. 11-linked Arab nation after a flimsy investigation and with weak guarantees the company in charge can stop Osama bin Laden from infiltrating, the House homeland security chairman said.
Dredging a large area off the Norfolk coast has lowered the seabed by five metres in the last few years, a new report has revealed.
The sun is shining on the Ericsson boys, who are finally able to compete against the other boats and do what they are here for: race. Currently lying in third place they are 12 miles behind ABN Amro One and just 3 miles between ABN AMRO Two.
Charges for transporting goods in containers from Vietnam to international destinations are now 20- 30 percent higher than those in regional countries, mainly due to insufficient investment, local newspaper Vietnam Economic Times reported Monday.
Rescuers were fighting strong wind and waves on Sunday as they searched for 31 sailors missing after a Panama-registered freighter sank off China
CNOOC Ltd, China’s biggest offshore oil and gas producer, has signed a production sharing contract to explore for crude oil and natural gas and develop an area offshore of Equatorial Guinea.
Nigerian militants said they blew up a military houseboat and an oil pipeline on Monday, extending a campaign of sabotage in the world
Elements within the US government are actively trying to undermine aspects of an arms procurement deal with Taiwan, sources said, while a US congressman will arrive in Taipei today in an effort to move the issue forward.
State-owned Saudi Aramco has awarded South Korean Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering a contract to construct six large oil tankers.
The Managing Director of Delta Steel Company, Dr Onyeabor Nwabuokei, has called on the federal government to dredge the River Niger to ease ship passage.
Following the successful deployment of Fugro
