The Israeli Department of Defense has cooked up the world’s smallest gyroscope—powered by lasers and as small as a single grain of sand. The new gyros are sensitive enough to track your position and movements anywhere—no GPS required.
Wilhelmsen Ships Service has arranged a substantial logistics service for the ‘Latitude’, a 51.8-metre vessel, which was used by the non-profit environmental organization Oceana to study the after-effects of the oil spill from the ‘Deepwater Horizon’ offshore rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
Somali pirates have seized a Taiwanese fishing vessel with 14 crewmembers onboard in the Indian Ocean, near Mauritius, an international maritime organisation said on October 8. The Kenya-based Ecoterra International said that contact was lost with the vessel ‘Feng Guo’ on October 4 and very likely i
DP World has commissioned a $500m port in the Callao district of Peru. The Muelle Sur port can handle around 850,000teu annually. The port has two berths of 350m each and can handle two post-Panamax vessels of 8,000teu at the same time.
The reconstruction of Berth 10 has won the Management of Engineering award at the 2010 WA Engineering Excellence Awards held by Engineers Australia in Perth on 18 September. The berth, previously unsuitable for container shipping, now provides an additional 180 metres of operational wharf space for
Fairstar Heavy Transport N.V. (FAIR) has been awarded a transportation contract by Van Oord Ship Management B.V. The Fairstar semi-submersible vessel FJELL will sail to the Sakhalin peninsula in Russia to load a cargo of split hopper barges, a cutter suction dredger and other related dredging equipm
INPEX CORPORATION announced today that it commenced the feasibility study on the construction of natural gas pipeline (“Toyama Line”), which is planned to be constructed from Itoigawa City, Niigata Prefecture to Toyama City, Toyama Prefecture, Japan. This feasibility study includes surveying, geolog
Today the Danish Climate and Energy Minister Lykke Friis officially inaugurated E.ON’s offshore wind farm Rösand II. Rödsand lies between the German island of Fehmarn and the Danish island of Lolland and is currently the largest of E.ON’s six offshore wind farms and one of the largest operating in t
The Western Dredging Association (WEDA) and Texas A & M University will host its Annual Western Hemisphere Dredging Conference (WEDA 31 and TAMU 42) June 5-8, 2011 at the “Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville, Tennessee. The theme of this conference “Enhancing the Economy Through Dredging” will focu
The end of the new aquaculture wharf, a project co-sponsored by the federal and provincial governments under the economic stimulus money, being constructed on the east side of Hermitage is in sight, literally. The parking lot, measuring 250 feet by 100 feet, remains to be covered by asphalt, and the
Nineteen local and international firms are in the race for a contract to build a major General Cargo Terminal and Liquid Jetty at the Port… By Conrad Prabhu (zawya) [mappress] Source: zawya, October 12, 2010;
Murmansk Governor Dmitri Dmitriyenko has signed agreements on the development of a ten billion RUB LNG terminal, as well as a new oil and ga… (barentsobserver) [mappress] Source: barentsobserver, October 12, 2010;
Louisiana has a suggestion for the contractors building a massive sand barrier along its coast: hurry up… By Jeffrey Ball (wsj) [mappress] Source: wsj, October 12, 2010;
The Board of Golar LNG Energy Limited (“Golar Energy” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has been selected as the successful bidder in the PT Nusantara Regas tender for the West Java Floating Storage Regasification Terminal (“West Java FSRU Project”). Nusantara Regas is a joint venture
