The Westport Shipyard plans to add 100 new jobs in Hoquiam next year and nearly double the space of its facility at the Port of Grays Harbor.
As the Ashgabat correspondent of Turkmensitan.ru reports, the Vyborg Shipbuilding Yard of Russia has won an international tender to design and build six fishing-refrigerating vessels for the State Committee of Fishing Industry of Turkmenistan.
The Tasmanian Government has defended the number of cruise ships visiting Hobart. National Geographic’s director of sustainable tourism has warned the Ecotourism Australia Conference that thousands of cruise ship visitors each summer will ruin the city’s natural tourism strengths.
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been an event-filled year for the cruise industry, with ships housing Katrina evacuees, ports in New Orleans and Mexico damaged by storms, a freak seven-story wave washing over one ship and a pirate attack on another.
The Alabama State Port Authority announced Tuesday that Mobile Container Terminal LLC will operate the port’s $300 million container shipment terminal being built south of downtown Mobile.
WHILE the focus is on the A-star fleet of sailors taking part in the Monsoon Cup which starts today, those behind the scenes are not to be left behind.
December 1907, discussion between the former Melville Yacht Club (MYC) currently known as East Fremantle Yacht Club, Fremantle Sailing Club (FSC) and the Rockingham Progress Association resulted in two separate races, the Rockingham Easter Race with a 10 guinea prize pool and the birth of this fanta
CAPETOWN, SOUTH AFRICA-(29-11-2005) The leading boats in the fleet have Cape Town in their sights now, with the final 700 miles of the leg ahead of them and a cold beer waiting on the bar. ABN AMRO ONE still holds a lead that hasn
One of the world’s biggest oil companies believes Arctic waters, including those north of Alaska, hold huge promise as an oil and gas frontier.
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BP Oil Shipping Co. USA said the third of four Alaska-class double-hull crude oil tankers being built by National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. (Nassco), San Diego, was delivered Nov. 22. The fourth ship will be delivered in late 2006.
The management of Gdynia Shipyard has submitted an offer to sell Gda
LONDON, Sun: The cost of shipping crude oil on million-barrel tankers from ports in the Mediterranean Sea rose to its highest in almost a year as restrictions in the Turkish straits kept vessels from picking up cargoes.
Team New Zealand helmsman Dean Barker beat BMW Oracle skipper Chris Dickson in the last race of five to win the New Zealand match racing yachting championship on the Waitemata Harbour yesterday.
