Surfers, fishermen and harbor denizens are celebrating a small victory in a larger fight. A coalition of Coastsiders interested in … By Mark Noack [mappress] Source: hmbreview, July 5, 2010;
Most Greek shipowners, who account for more vessel orders than any other nation, are waiting for prices to drop before expanding their fleets, according to Royal Bank of Scotland Group, their largest lender. The cost of a new 2 million-barrel carrying supertanker has climbed 5 percent this year to $
Clean-up hopes in the Gulf of Mexico are riding on a supertanker called The Whale. The world’s largest oil skimmer, from Taiwan, has cruised a 25 square-mile test site north of the Macondo deepwater well. It can process 21 million gallons of polluted water a day by sucking it up, separating the oil
Evergreen Group has placed orders with Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd in Taipei for ten 8,000-TEU L-class environmentally advanced container vessels. The first vessel is due for delivery in 2012 and will join Evergreen Line global containership fleet. Six of the new vessels will be built for Ever
Yesterday at Marghera shipyard Fincantieri delivered a new flagship, the Nieuw Amsterdam, to Holland America Line, a member of Carnival Group, the world’s leading cruise operator. The new ship is the fourteenth Fincantieri has built for this well-established brand. Present at the ceremony were Stein
More finance has been secured by Dong Energy to back to the London Array offshore wind farm which is due to come online in 2012. Dong Energy said it has secured a new £250 million loan facility for the project, with the European Investment Bank.
Scandlines has held a keel lying ceremony for their two first newbuildings ever. It took place at P+S Werften G.m.b.H (former Volkswerft Stralsund) which builds the two double ended ferries for the Gedser-Warnemünde service. Delivery is set to 2012.
French boatbuilding group Bénéteau has reported a 17 per cent increase in boat sales for the third quarter of 2009/2010 and confirms its forecasts for the group’s full-year earnings. Sales for the third quarter grew by 16.7 per cent, from €198.4m in 2009 to €231.5m in 2010.
Jenkins Marine has been chosen to help undertake the historic restoration of the Millbay Inner Basin at Plymouth. Conceived and built by Brunel in the 1850’s for the Great Western Railway Company, this historic shipping dock, complete with its Granite walling, had all but been abandoned to its fate
Keppel Shipyard Ltd (Keppel Shipyard) is on track to complete the conversion of Maersk Peregrino for long time customer Maersk FPSOs. Maersk Peregrino is chartered to Statoil for deployment in the Peregrino field in the Campos Basin, located 85 km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This vessel
People who fish for a living pursue profits, not necessarily top predators, according to the first-ever analysis of worldwide catch and economic data for the past 55 years. It might seems like stating the obvious, however this view differs from the observation raised ten years ago that humans were “
Environmentalists are worried about the effects on marine and bird life of a major dredging project planned for the Otago harbour… [mappress] Source: radionz, July 5, 2010;
London-based Global Witness said that Cambodia’s sand-dredging industry threatened endangered species, fish stocks and local livelihoods … [mappress] Source: temasekreview, July 5, 2010
Brazil’s federal and Paraiba state governments have signed a service order to begin a 39.6mn-real (US$22.3mn) dredging project for the … [mappress] Source: Business News Americas, July 5, 2010;
