The new chief of naval operations understands the importance of shipbuilding and especially the destroyer programs at shipyards in Mississippi and Maine, says U.S. Sen. Trent Lott.
When she was 10 years old, Cathy Forst watched her mother christen the third USS Gridley with champagne as hundreds of spectators cheered. It was a bright, sunny day at Puget Sound Bridge and Drydock Co. in Seattle. The year was 1961.
The contract Northrop Grumman Newport News won last week for work on the USS Toledo is the largest submarine maintenance job the shipyard has received in at least 20 years.
Hundreds of boats of all sizes, once released from the constraints of the exclusion zone boundaries, still strained at the leash as they tried to get more forward power in the boiling cauldron that was the wake of the Volvo Ocean Race fleet.
There is very little between the boats as they sail the Bass Strait. ABN AMRO ONE and Pirates dispute the lead, probably within sight of one another, while Brasil 1 and movistar have swapped places in third and fourth over the past hour.
Thousands of Melburnians lined the dockside at Waterfront City, Docklands, this morning to wave goodbye to the Volvo Ocean Race fleet as they head off on Leg Three to Wellington, before heading on to Rio de Janeiro.
The first vessel in the government’s $500 million navy upgrade has come off its slipway in a Rotterdam ship building yard.
Singapore’s PSA Corporation announced Friday it would not make a new bid for P&O, the major international logistics and transport company founded in 1837, leaving the way clear for DP World (formerly known as Dubai Ports Authority) to take control.
Sometimes, governments carry out acts of piracy. A case occurred last month when a Ukrainian ship, carrying fifteen Belgian Pandur wheeled armored vehicles, on loan to UN peacekeeping troops from Benin, stopped at a port in Equatorial Guinea.
The Carnival ship Ecstasy
A local boat builder is starting to make waves in the business with its
The United States Navy has put Somali pirates operating in the Indian Ocean on notice: They will be intercepted, pursued, arrested and handed over to coastal states for trial (or taken to US navy base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba).
Thousands of tennis shoes, aluminum briefcases and children’s toys washed onto the beach of a Dutch island Friday, drawing crowds of treasure-hunting residents, coast guard officials said.
Some of the highest regional shipping fees and an aging vessel fleet have left Vietnam
